#128 Marathon TX county park boon -dock

Our next stop was Marathon but it's something of the last stop before you get to the Big Bend. There's nothing at Marathon but a gas station. Get all your supplies groceries and fuel before you get there.

This is exactly what we did based on the McCaullums advice and they were right. All you will buy after Marathon is sand.

I saw a Boondock on the Days End directory at Marathon and it's funny. No way you would have ever found this without GPS coordinates. It's so far off the beaten path it is incredible. After Fort Stockton, it becomes more and more of a prairie desert. A tumbleweed kind of environment so there's nothing anywhere in sight at all on the way to Marathon. In Iraan fuel was 2.50 a gallon and at Marathon, it was $3 and it's that much because they can. There's nothing else around so we filled up anyway and went on down to the Boondock called Marathon County Park.

I remember being on a pretty curvy little one lane for one section and I wasn't paying any attention. I wasn't going to that fast maybe 30 miles an hour or a little more. I road curved up quick and caught me off guard. I swear I think the whole Rig went airborne got a little air time. I'm sure Savannah was completely thrown across the room because she was in the back on the bed in the RV. It's not like you ever want to repeat it but this taught me that the camper doesn’t just disconnect from the truck willy nilly. If it could stay intact after that I would worry less in the future about it ever disconnecting. That one made me a believer that it would take a lot to become disconnected from the RV because I believe both vehicles were off the ground a foot.

We got to Marathon county park and it was a pretty little place. It was super nice for a Boondock and we found on drinkable freshwater and filled up our tanks took showers and went messing around the river and all-around pretty nice.

It was a nice to place to sleep and we enjoyed seeing the ducks over at the ponded area.

It seemed like they were controlling the water flow of a small dam that was only a foot higher than the river. The water was probably only 10 feet deep. I assume it how they regulate the water flow

There was also a sort of an abandoned old swimming pool-looking thing that people used to go to and now it's just kind of dried up.

Marathon wasn't exciting but it was a pretty little place and with that, we moved on

The only negative I could come up with is after dark somebody came down and parked over in the corner. Kind of like you do when you're getting away with something or you and the little lady getting a little alone time or somebody burning a joint. It creeped me out a little bit because we were 20 miles from everything out there.

They left after a while and that was the only negative and that wasn't that bad.

We had bought some tulips for Easter and they bloomed real pretty but now the yellow parts were gone. It was just kind of stems. I knew that they wouldn't live much longer with us on the RV. I went down to the riverbank and planted it on so they would have a place to live.