I've been pretty muck all over West Texas - a grew up ranching near Abiline. That country around Del Rio is some of my favorite in the state -- just one nothch short of Big Band, but without the people.

I it intrerest to compare the reallity of that teraine and climate with people expections. They never have seen desert like this desert. Its a different world. Hearing people talk about 'the woods is so alien to my experience, I have a hard time knowing where to start. Even when I go to NM, which I used to do quite a lot, we hung out in the high desert rather than the forest land.