Another place on our dream vacation list is Marfa, Texas. I’ve never been to Texas before (unless you count a connection at the Dallas airport, but I don’t think you really should), not even to Austin, which I really want to visit. But I want to see Marfa even more. I want to see the Marfa Lights, the Chihuahuan Desert, the ruins of the Giant set, that fake Prada store . . . I want to stay in a tent/trailer/teepee at El Cosmico for at least one night, though I think that staying in town at the Hotel Paisano might be more my style. It’s from the ’30s, and supposedly James Dean and Elizabeth Taylor stayed there while filming Giant, or at the very least ate there. Also, there’s a pool.

Basically I just want to relax, to walk around and look at the weird (to me) landscapes and the mixed bag architecture: old adobe cottages, modern structures, and art deco buildings downtown. I want to see the places that inspired designer Kieley Kimmel’s spring collection, Marfakind. She lived in Marfa a few years back, and loved the place so much that she based a collection on it, complete with hand-dyed/hand-painted prints. There are some light and airy dresses that I bet would be just perfect for wandering around downtown Marfa.