Anyone familiar With Alpine, Texas?

[NewGuy2005 53]

My wife and I will be spending a week there in June. Why? I am considering moving there. I think I would like the climate and the desert.

What are the things we should put on our to-do list?

[gowlerk 2,191]

Fandango, with Kevin Costner includes Sonic Drive-In scene in Alpine in the 1985 movie.

Always remember the brave children who died defending your right to bear arms. Freedom is not free.

[wmw999 2,446]

It's close to Big Bend, Fort Davis, and Marfa; we went to all of those places in 2014, eating and shopping in Alpine. They have a decent health food grocery, and a local theatre company (both good signs of community engagement). It really seemed like a pleasant place.

The one downside is that it's a long way to anywhere from there. As in airport if you travel, major hospital etc.

Wendy P.

There is nothing more dangerous than breaking a basic safety rule and getting away with it. It removes fear of the consequences and builds false confidence. (tbrown)

[MikeJD 0]

gowlerk

Fandango, with Kevin Costner includes Sonic Drive-In scene in Alpine in the 1985 movie.

Also the home of one of the bit-part characters in the movie 'No Country For Old Men'. He stops to help psychopathic hitman Anton Chigurh with his 'broken down' car, and presumably gets murdered for his trouble (although it's one of the few acts of extreme violence that mercifully happens off-screen!)

I only mention this because I happened to re-watch the film last night. I'd never heard of Alpine before, and then it comes up twice in the space of 24 hours. Funny how that happens. :)