Osler's Razor

What is there to love about Alpine? In short, it's the kind of place IPLawGuy would like-- it has what he needs. It has a great independent bookstore, Front Street Books, which (in keeping with the nonsensical spirit of the place) has two locations in town, which are twenty feet from one another. Alpine also has a surviving downtown storefront movie theater (they recently raised prices to five bucks for adults-- yikes!), and a record store, "Ringtail Records." It also has a lot of good places to get a burrito.

Terlingua is considered a "neighboring town," though it is 102 miles away. I suppose that's how it works in West Texas. The sad news from Terlingua is that Judy Magers, the "Burro Lady," passed away. She was well known in Alpine, Marathon, and elsewhere as a woman who traveled to these places by burro from her Terlingua home. Apparently, some citizens got concerned about her advancing age and bought her an old Cadillac. She used the Cadillac to feed the burro, out of the trunk.

I guess it is ok to be a bit of a character way out here, and that works for me.