Rolling G RV Park

08/12/2025

Proud Aunt share.

This young lady is the President of the Children of the Republic of Texas (CRT). She made the quilt hanging on the wall & is selling chances at each DRT District workshop in order to raise money for her President’s Project. Her project? Giving history books to school libraries in Texas.❤️

04/14/2025

A band in Alpine, Texas circa 1905. I have so many questions about this photo. Like, what instrument did the man on the right play? That don't look like any kind of musical instrument that I'm familiar with! 🙂 And what kind of sound emanates from a band with a trombone, a fiddle, a harp and a guitar? I guess it doesn't matter. Joy is joy. And isn't the pursuit of harmony just as important as actual harmony?

Courtesy the archives.

02/17/2025

February 17, 1836
General Jose Urrea with a force of 550 cavalry crosses into Texas following the gulf coast towards Agua Dulce, Refugio & Goliad.

02/14/2025

Happy Valentine’s Day from the Daughters!
(Postcard from 1906 - sent to Duval County, Texas)

12/24/2023

The Texas Quote of the Day:

"I have already said that we went naked through this country [ either the the Texas Hill Country or the brush Brasada region closer to the border]; not being accustomed to going so, we shed our skins twice a year like snakes. The sun and air raised great, painful sores on our chests and shoulders, and our heavy loads caused the cords to cut our arms. The region is so overgrown that often, when we gathered wood, blood flowed from us in many places where the thorns and shrubs tore our flesh."

------ Cabeza De Vaca, "Adventures in the Unknown Interior of America," 1533. I am rereading Cabeza's account of his adventures in Texas roughly 500 years ago and am still convinced that he was the toughest man who ever lived

Apropos of nothing, here's a great geology map of Texas, courtesy the Bureau of Economic Geology What I love is being able to visually see how profoundly the underlying geology, the rock, impacts and informs what I see on the surface of this state that by now I know so well. The volcanic rock near Castolon in Big Bend? That's the Oligocene and Eocene undivided (OE) (volcanic rocks and conglomerates) .

05/16/2023

Rolling G RV Park is a great place to call home. I currently have 6 monthly spots open this summer. I also have internet service upgrades getting installed at the end of June.

08/16/2022

Get ready for a green End of Summer and Fall in Far West Texas! 🍀🌱🌲🌿💚

We’ve had some great scattered showers and cool temperatures in and around North Brewster County over the past couple of weeks, then continuing throughout this week, we are catching some of the scattered tropical showers.

With an average daily high of about 94 and an average daily low of about 70, for the last 30 days, I still can’t figure out why Summer is my slowest time of the year. 😂



📸: Jerry White, Rolling G Patron

08/15/2022

A view of downtown Alpine Texas and the Holland Hotel in 1920. I just LOVE those cars parked up and down the street.

This photo is courtesy Sul Ross University's Bryan Wildenthal Library. They have some nice searchable archives here:

https://digitalcollections.sulross.edu/digital/

08/07/2022

Viva Big Bend is by far one of the coolest weekends to be in Alpine and now I have some of the coolest Viva Big Bend regulars.

It’s not too often you get a set of siblings all in their 70s, on a family trip together, who also make jambalaya and bread pudding like they were born and raised in Baton Rouge Louisiana or something. 😂😋🥰

Extra thankful for guests that feel like family. 🤗

01/05/2022

On December 26th, a panel of ancient petroglyphs in the Indian Head area of Big Bend National Park was irreparably damaged when vandals chose to boldly scratch their names and the date across the prehistoric art. If you have any information about the incident, or the persons involved, please contact the National Park Service.

To view the full news release and contact information, please visit Big Bend National Park's News Release page: https://www.nps.gov/bibe/learn/news/ancient-rock-art-vandalized.htm.