Sues in Marfa Tx
So the Boys Named Sue were hired to play a wedding in Marfa, Tx.
Marfa is a LONG ways away so it was easily the longest road trip we have taken. Its difficult enough just to get the band to play outside of 635. The trip down was pretty brutal. We were supposed to leave Dubs at 10am, but with all the delays and whatnot…we left Dallas around 1:45. Typical.
Snakebite couldn’t make the trip, so we had the help of “Party Cove Sue” to help us out.
Dirty!
Dub has a new GPS in his car so I got to mess with that. We spent the first hour debating if it was a better idea to follow the directions or just take 20 most of the way. Come Abilene, we opted to follow the computer…which was probably the fastest. For the next 300 miles of hwy 67, we probably saw 20 cars total. Go technology.
The first highlight of the trip was when we hit the Comanche springs restaurant in Fort Stockton. Its main attraction is the Big Chef Sitting Bull burger. It serves 4 to 6 people and is FREE if you eat it (with fries) in an hour.
Dub had to give it a try. Mostly because he had a cousin (Kegman) who had made an excellent run at it a year or so before. Our waitress seriously tried to talk him out of it. Dub insisted. John even got some footage of them making the burger in the kitchen. When it came out…DANG..check this out
Here is the burger against a 1/4 lb burger!!!!
Party Cove just looks ill.
He had a go at it..but didn’t finish it. Luckily the motel had a mini fridge so we could keep it around and take bites over the weekend. (Yuck)
We pulled into Marfa around 11:30pm. After unloading the truck, it was closing time for the bar, but most of the wedding party was still loitering in the Thunderbird parking lot. I retired early, while the rest of the band went with the remaining wedding party to try and see the marfa lights.
We started the next day with pizza from Pizza Foundation.
It was some EXCELLENT pizza. I highly recommend it.
I walked around town a bit after, but I cant say that Marfa did much for me. The town is kinda like a Texas version of Aspen…but without 98% of the high dollar amenities. I looked at the pictures on the real estate office…most places were 150k to start (for shacks.)
Tons of art galleries…but the restaurants were modest. ( A good thing) Food was certainly good, but homey. Lots of people walking around with cell phones and yet, no Starbucks. The only retail coffee was at the gas station. Its a unique place. Maybe the best way to describe it is a place for rich Dallasites to go, but where they seem to be happy NOT bringing all that Dallas crap with them. (Just the cell phones and laptops…gotta tell everybody where you are at right?)
The weather and view is breathtaking. I hope to go back so I can see Big Bend.
The Wedding reception was a blast. We got fed the most amazing food. Quail (deboned!), Lobster, Pork and beef tenderloin (OH GOD!!! IT WAS AMAZING) and a most stellar Gumbo. The groom’s family are in the food biz…so that was an important part of the party…and spared no expense.
I was fascinated by all the candles.
the venue was pretty nice. Apparently Sonic Youth played there a year ago. We where told this many times. Yo La Tango was going to be there in a month. Did I mention that the town was filled with hipsters?
We dreaded Sunday’s drive back to Dallas. Amazingly, we got out of town by noon. We had quick stop at Alpine for food and a picture op at Jackassic Park.
