Being a woman, I have no regrets about living in Texas., beats most other places I've seen.

17:00 I'm a woman, born and raised. And I love living in Texas. 😅

@minigirl6839

5 ай бұрын

Me too! 😘

@Zorazora1234

5 ай бұрын

I wish you could convince your Texan brother-in to stop moving to Ruidoso, NM … gosh I wish they would go back to Texa**

My dog weighed 107 lbs. and had two bad knees. I started making him chicken, rice, peas and carrots with a little no sodium chicken broth, and in 8 months, he lost 25 lbs. His knees are so much better now and he jumps up on his designated couch with ease. Best thing I could have done for him.

@alicial6072

6 ай бұрын

I had a Dalmatian that had bladder stones (typical in the breed) and I made his food as well (the UD prescription food was high in sodium and some Dalmatians was suffering heart attacks), I did chicken and/or turkey, potatoes, carrots, zucchini, rice, barley, canola oil and a can of tomatoes he ate it for 11 years, I used to make a big pot of it every 5 days, I froze it to keep it fresh and because he was so active I had to add pasta to it just to maintain his weight.

First time commenter, long time viewer. You have really perfected your craft! Pics in the park are beautiful. Love to see how you have grown over the years…your hard work is paying off in serenity! ❤. Thanks for taking us along. Keep up the great work!

A friend who grew up in Texas said Big Bend is really something. And wow! Thanks for taking us along. Loved the stills!

The stills were high drama and stunning. You captured Big Bend beautifully. And, you chose perfect music. Thank you!!!

@CarolynsRVLife

6 ай бұрын

Thank you so much!

I went there a few years ago and stayed at Cottonwood campground too. The long drive there from Fort Stockton is desolate and beautiful..you really feel you are in the middle of nowhere. Your still photos were breathtaking and absolutely captured the beauty of the park.

I actually loved the still photos of the park. We are so used to video now but I really enjoyed your gorgeous photos that I could pause and really appreciate. You hand picked them so they were stunning lighting and composition that you wouldn't get with video

In 2015, Terlingua (TUR-lingua, not TEAR-) was the subject of a tv miniseries called 'Badlands, Texas.' Fascinating story. I have a friend who lived on the ranch for several years.

You’re still photography very beautiful and special . Love to see more . Thank you.

My aunt had a beagle that had many food allergies, and she fed her a cooked meat and veggie diet. She would brown some ground turkey or chicken and when it cooled she would mix in some shredded raw veggies like broccoli, carrots, cauliflower, cabbage, and when she could, she added pumpkin or sweet potato. Her pup thrived on that diet. Good luck!

@martycallmer9865

4 ай бұрын

pumpkin is the key

Hi Carolyn, Not sure you appreciate this, but I love the crunching sound when you walk on gravel or stones or in the forest walking on crunchy leaves - after a long day, it lulls me to sleep.🙂 It was so soothing in this video. Do not fret! I watch the video again the next day with my morning coffee! Thank you for taking me on your journey!

I really enjoyed the stills of Big Bend. Those photos gave us a chance to really look at the detail of that beautiful place. There are advantage to stills.

I don’t feed my fur babies raw meat, I do however, cook them chicken, green beans cooked in beef broth, sweet potatoes, sometimes pumpkin, and if I’m cooking hamburger or pork chops, I usually save a little bit for them. I also give them Hills Science dog food. So they get a good balance and my vet says they are both very healthy. Love the photos you took! Just beautiful!!!

Big Bend is the best kept secret in America - if you love the desert! The Museum of the Big Bend in Alpine is also very good.

I'm a woman who has lived in Texas my entire life. I love it here and am proud to be a Texan and a Texas woman. I'm sure Texas doesn't give a rip what you think about it. Hate is a strong word,but I get it. I hate California and everyone associated with it. Glad you enjoyed your stay in my beautiful state! 😘

I have wanted to go to Terlingua for awhile now, and I am thrilled you got to enjoy it Carolyn. This was an excellent video all around, great photographs, great history, and you and Sadie just taking it all in. Oh bye the way, when my cat Hook reached 18 years of age I had to cook him ground turkey every couple days. I put it in small Tupperware containers that I would then freeze, and thaw out as needed. Hook was a wonderful cat, a real lap cat, and it was my pleasure to repay him for his friendship. Ya those Farmer's Dog commercials get to me too. Thanks, & Take Care Carolyn.

@kaymccain1593

6 ай бұрын

This was an awesome video. Loved that little town!!!❤

This is a wonderful video Carolyn you did a wonderful job! Enjoyed all the history that you brought up never knew a lot of this. Love your videos!

cooked chicken can even be substituted for or added to his regular meal. Most sources recommend against raw chicken, due to the risk of salmonella or bacterial infections.

I don’t think you mentioned that Big Bend is the ONLY National park that has a mountain range completely within its borders.

@bettystudzinski7200

6 ай бұрын

Additionally the Basin is the most scenic area in BBNP, did you not go there?

Another great trip with you. It was so interesting and beautiful. Thank you!❤

So enjoyed this video. Wow, beautiful sceneries very fortunate for you to be able to share that with us, Carolyn thank you

Awesome....thank you so much...Sadie said she was just excited mom...❤

Big Bend is beautiful! You find the most interesting places! Safe travels! 🌞😃

I just watched this video Carolyn. Wow absolutely beautiful pictures!! And love all the info on the history you gave from where you were. As always looking forward to the next video ❤

Ft. Davis observatory is amazing and so cool!

I'm a woman and i love living in Texas.

Lovely video, even the part with only the pictures, we could felt the inner peace these towns and climates bring.

Carolyn, please, please, please , take a drive to Presidio…absolute BEAUTIFUL DRIVE and stop and see the hoo doos formations on the way for a nice hike!! It’s only about 50 miles from Terlingua and well worth it!! Also, try Long Draw Pizza, closed Monday and Tuesday!,

@deniseagababian3697

6 ай бұрын

Carolyn what highway were you on passing those beautiful rocks!

Thanks again for the adventure. I enjoyed every minute of it.

@CarolynsRVLife

5 ай бұрын

You're very welcome! So glad you enjoyed it Ronny.

My grandparents took me to Big Bend in their RV when I was a kid. It was marvelous then and now! I go every couple of years. 😊

This was a great video and still photos. You find the coolest places!! ❤

For people traveling west on Highway 90...Del Rio is the last big town and has affordable gas. From there it only goes up. With that said if you are headed to the Big Bend area fill up in Alpine because gasoline is expensive in Study Butte and Lajitas.

So glad you were able to visit Big Bend and Terlingua. We have property in Terlingua off the Ranch Road. We built a hang over where we parked our RV for about 15 years and would stay there when we could. Beautiful nights with millions of stars, I believe it was the first place I saw the Milky Way. Ghost Town has an interesting history. If you get a chance again to visit you would love to see more and one of my favorites is driving through The Big Bend State Highway. I too would not live in Texas but it has beautiful places. Happy to watch your video...

Carolyn, I rarely comment, but thank you so much for sharing your travels. You really do great work with your videos.

@CarolynsRVLife

5 ай бұрын

I appreciate that!

Terlingua really isn’t a ghost town. The 1960’s and 70’s made it seem so when everyone left after the Chisos mining shut down. But folks still live there. It’s small but it’s fun and home to the annual Terlingua chili cook off which has been an annual event since 1967! People come from all over the world literally. I’m born and raised in west Texas and we go there every year. So glad you’re there and showing off some of the best parts of Texas!

Fabulously excellent job "filming" in a National Park, that we all pay for, and should be able to film without a permit. Cheers!

@meredithheath5272

5 ай бұрын

EXACTLY! (Power trips which some individuals require ....👎)

@1man_caravan

5 ай бұрын

@@meredithheath5272 It is OUR Park! Have a great evening 😀

Thank you loved the history of this place.❤❤

Hi Carolyn and Sadie, really enjoyed this video thank you for the adventure loved it.

That's nice! Thank you for sharing this! ❤

Big Bend. My favorite place on earth. Great video.

Beautiful…thanks for sharing it 😊

I miss Texas sometimes. Great video.

So beautiful, Carolyn. East Coast dweller but so drawn to the West. Gorgeous photos and I can feel your happiness out there. Maybe part of it is the openness compared to as you say, Eastern US so densely packed. I've seen that same yt ad and knew you had too the moment you referenced. Chicken treat for Sadie girl, know she loved that!

I love Big Bend!!!Alpine, Marfa, Ft Davis and Balmorhea are very worth seeing as well!

@Christine_1111

5 ай бұрын

Go see the mysterious Marfa Lights

Wonderful video, including the still photographs in Big Bend. Texas has some beautiful and quirky country. I grew up there but would not live there now.

Very nice content. Loved the pictures and the music went well with this video. I'd love to see places like that. Very interesting.

Thanks for the video. Big Bend on my bucket list.

Loved the Ghost town as well Carolyn. Really Enjoyed this Video.

I can’t wait to get out and see them!!❤

My home base is in Texas. I’ve lived in Texas for 45 years and never been to big bend. It’s on my soon bucket list. Thanx for sharing.

Oh Carolyn, those pictures of Big Bend were absolutely beautiful 😍 ❤. I've been there three times, and it keeps calling me back. It's the only place I've seen black bears in nature. I know there's larger NP's with higher elevation, and what may be argued more beautiful scenery, but there's just something about this NP that has grabbed my heart ❤️; maybe it's because I'm a Texan, I don't know. I love Big Bend Ranch SP also next to Lajitas and Terlingua. There is such an amazing change in scenery from the Pine Forests of the NP and beauty of the desert in the SP.

Great videos Carolyn. You and Sadie stay Safe. 👍🙋‍♀️🐶😍

The ghost town was so cool. Thank you.

Great still photography! And narrative.

Beautiful photography

Thanks for the still photography tip for youtube videos! I love that! Also love the facts...I'm a geographer.

The ancient art in the park is amazing!

The cemetary at Terlingua is very interesting.They have some good restaurants there as well. We stayed at Rio Grande campground at Big Bend two years ago and loved it. Great hiking in that area!

Love your content. You go girl!!

Thanks!

@CarolynsRVLife

6 ай бұрын

Thank you very much for the tip Jack!

Great Video!! I had a Doberman growing up. She lived to be 16 years old. Her diet was good old fashioned Gravy Train, occasional raw egg and I know for a fact a lot of veggies under the table. Dog food isn't what it was when we were growing up

I had fun in Terlingua and particularly enjoyed the cemetery.

The Big Bend area is a geologist’s dream come true. That plus the birds and history make the region an amazing place to visit November thru March. Was there once in early May and the temperature was 108F! The white “billboard” panel on top of the hill was used as a passive repeater for bouncing microwave signals off of. They’ve since been replaced by today’s microwave towers with the round cone shaped things pointing in various directions.

Love the still life photos and what a interesting ghost town

Stopped at the hot spring in the national park that dumps into the rio grand !! What fun ..

awesome place that i need to visit soon , thanks for sharing my friend

Really enjoyed this one, thanks. 😁😁😎😎👍👍

Visited BB last March and the flower bloom was amazing! And like you I was so intrigued with the ghost town…and the cemetery! Let’s just say quite a change from Ohio!! ☺️

Well hello it's always amazing to see you're camping videos with you're sweet little puppy

Oh wish you would of went to the cemetery. Loved this stop.

My husband fed his dog Old Roy. She was 17 or 18 when she finally crossed the Rainbow Bridge. I fed mt dog Science diet and she turned her nose up when she discovered Old Roy ! She is now 14 and nobody believes she's that old.

It's a ghost town.Sadie is an extremely sensitive and protective dog.Notice even the way she was sniffing the lot where you found purple glass.She was sniffing,lifting her head as if to register/ recognize that scent.Dogs get spooked easy with ghosts, supernatural things That's what makes dogs unpopular with the dangerous ones.Dogs know who or what they are, dangerous one often are very vocal saying "Get your dog away from me or don't allow dogs to be near,to socialize.110 % of the times I've traveled,camped,hiked the dog always knew.If I waited,observed her enough I could figure where or the direction she was guiding me away from.You can always find another sight to see,but you only have one life (esp.if danger has a gun,knife,is drugged out,or genetically enhanced or predisposition to be violent,deadly.Its a whole new world,not like the era I grew up in,though things did happen then too.Dogs teach,please don't be harsh on her.Its stressful for them.They need to be goobers afterwards to let off steam.Taje Care you too

Looks like it had swings too. I remember those metal slides... in the summer... while wearing shorts.

Big Ben is on my list for February. Can't wait.

There was a lot of room in that old car, and made of metal, neat !

That lil store was impressive!

We feed our dogs Fromm out of Wisconsin. But we add green beans at ever meal. And add sweet potatoes and other goodies along with the dry kibble.

Wow - that is ridulously crazy that people can't use video - must be still photography. Thanks for the tip! Your stills were absolutely gorgeous - wonderful job!! (Sandwich looks yumny!) Thanks for having us along!

Hello Carolyn..love your videos and travels....would love to be traveling all over the country...hopefully soon

omg so real love it lets go more please

Your videos are amazing!

@CarolynsRVLife

5 ай бұрын

Thank you so much!

@bonniekaye

5 ай бұрын

@CarolynsRVLife You're welcome, my pleasure! ❤️

Great commentary and still shot photography

We feed our dogs a very small amount of raw ground beef sometimes. But you have to remember a lot of animals are given food with chemicals in it that makes them grow faster and bigger.

Western ghost buildings/towns that have so much history have a spiritual feeling to them. Big Bend Natl Park is awesome. Glad you were able to visit this historic area. As far as dog food goes the raw food diet can be healthy but so much more expensive. There are recipes out there so you can make your own, but living in a RV with limited refrigeration is a game changer. Dogs guts were never meant to digest soy or corn. It is recommended to feed a single carbohydrate( rice, sweet potatoes, pumpkin) single meat kibble especially for sensitive guts and allergies. Since wild dogs ate the partially digested food from their preys intestines and stomachs they do tolerate some greens and berries on their diets as do our pet dogs. You can add some eggs and raw meat to the kibble, but the high end kibbles are complete.Just as human diets have fads so do pet food. I have many friends who feed raw meat in addition to a hard kibble and there certainly is nothing wrong with that. What a full time RVer needs certainly are different than a sticks and bricks life style. I always remember that if I can feed myself high end organic food then I should spend money for the healthiest food for my animals who are my children. I do hope you will explore the dog food options that do not have corn or soy in the first 6 ingredients if at all will . Best wishes from San Antonio, TX

I stayed in a motel, in Marfa. I was told by the locals not to let my little boy run around outside alone, because of rattlesnakes. I was told that there was a lot of them! 😮

Yes, for no processing food. Maybe no raw food right away slightly boil until she gets used to. ❤

I enjoyed how you shared the photos of Big Bend with a voiceover. Very interesting. Hoping they change that stupid rule soon.

At 13:50, When you said “I met a guy, Paul” I was like OMG, so happy for you! Then I heard the rest and it was just a guy in the store talking dogs… LOL

I absolutely love Big Bend and the entire area. Terlingua,Alpine, Marfa, Fort Davis.. it's all such different landscape and I loved it all. I can't wait to get back there. I agree with you though, I ADORE the texas nature and landscape but I don't think I could live there due to the politics. I agree on the dog diet also. I didn't do raw but I gave my dogs cooked chicken or turkey sometimes with oatmeal sometimes brown rice with varied vegetables blended with a handful of Orijen kibble.

I have a Pitt bull/ black lab dog & I feed him cook chicken breast mixed with dry science diet food . My dog is 14 yrs old & still going healthy . I always had a lot of dogs but he is the first dog that I feed chicken breast to instead of canned food . He is the only big dog I had that has lived past 11 &12 yrs of age. I think it because I didn’t feed him processed can food.

Wow I would be so tempted to pick up those small pieces of pastel colored glass and make either a backsplash or cover a window with them

I love 🇨🇱

@minigirl6839

5 ай бұрын

So do I! 😊

The Starlight is such good food and cocktails!! Did you miss the cemetery? It's really cool.There is also another rv park further north and about 15 miles off the road. I accidentally ended up there, didn't stay, but I would definitely consider it on another visit. It's called Terlingua Ranch Lodge.

I've been a raw feeder for 6 years. There's a lot to it and a general formula that you follow that mimics what they would eat in the wild as a carnivore. 80/10/5/5/ is the general plan which is 80% meat, 10% bone, 5% liver, and 5% other organs. Most people also add sardines, eggs, and kelp and that's the short list! Glad you're enjoying our state of Texas!

@CarolynsRVLife

5 ай бұрын

Thank you very much for this info!

There was a Ghostbusters movie preview while watching your ghost town adventure 😅😆

I saw your doppelgänger at Espresso Y Poco Mas in Terlingua last March when we were there. Twice. Seriously! I even asked “Carolyn?” The only thing that dissuaded me that it wasn’t you were her tattoos. Hers were different 😂. Definitely hit up the cemetery the next time. You’re going to love it.

Lots of fun. Thanks

Cool video. Thanks

Carolyn! There is legislation in congress now that will change that. It was reported as bipartisan with support from both parties! Hang in there!!!