Rich? Between both my salary and my wifes it will be hard to afford a large place. But we currently lease two seperate properties and combined they make up 383 acres. We could be investing that money in a place of our own..
GB, if we decided to go out to west Tx around Dryden, or Sanderson or Iraan, we could easily buy 300 acres or more. There are some nice spots with deep draws and a good number of mule deer.
One reason we likely won't is that with gas at 3 bucks a gallon, that would be an expensive drive, and we likely wouldn't make many trips out there. Just outside Rocksprings we are looking at much smaller places around 80 acres and up. There's even a few smaller places we wil be looking at that are a bit more mountanious. For sure you and Faye will get an invite out when ever we finally do buy a place and have a camper or cabin set up.....
Cyber Sniper, you are right about the heat. I planned to wait until April but my wife being a school teacher only ahs a couple weeks left before school starts up again. So, this trip will be as much a get away trip as anything. By April, we will have twice the down payment that we have available right now, so April will be more likely a trip to actually purchase than this trip. Unless we find th deal of a life time.