Welcome to Casa Cielo, Marfa Texas!

Casa Cielo Marfa is our little vacation house in Marfa, Texas. David and I bought the house at the end of 2009 with the intent of spending much time in the area. It is also available for short-term rental during times when we are not using the house. We list it on VRBO.com. We have a direct website as well, at DiscoverMarfa.com.

Marfa is a fascinating place, full of great things to see, do and eat. It is a city of approximately 2,000 people in Far West Texas. Marfa is known for its art, music and great restaurants. Aside from being a great destination in its own rite, it is a great home base for visiting Big Bend (both the state and national parks), as well as the many other state parks in the area.

I hope you enjoy my views (and reviews) as we discover this wonderful area. Please feel free to add your own thoughts. Comments are most welcome!

Wednesday, March 3, 2010

A little about our new name

Casa Cielo is the third name we've come up with for the house. Hopefully, it will be the last.

The original name, Casa del Sol (House of the Sun), was something I came up with, a name that worked well for a house in the far west Texas desert. The attached smaller casita, once remodeled, was to be Casita del Luna (Little House of the Moon). Imagine our disappointment once our realtor (and now friend), Pat, informed us that there was already a rental known as Casa Mirasol with a casita of similar name to ours. Imagine that Google never picked that up!

So, we scrambled to find a new name for the house so as to avoid confusion among visitors and stepping on the toes of others in the community. We came up with an interim name, DiscoverMarfa House. Neither of us liked the name, but it wasn't like anyone elses, and we had the domain name.

A few weeks ago, I went to my friend Kris's house on a Saturday morning, where I had a delicious cup of coffee. It was some sort of Starbucks blend, with "cielo" on the label. Cielo, in Spanish, means "sky" or "heaven", and Marfa and Big Bend are definitely heavenly places under a very big and beatiful sky. A Google search and several conversations left us confident that this is a good name for our house.

And, Casita Tierra will follow one of these days.

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