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Experiencing El Cosmico, Texas

Little surprises make a tiny Texas town stick in the imagination.

By Hamish McKenzie In Travel

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5th May, 2012
It’s late and a hip young crowd has turned out for tonight’s screening of 1979 gangster-kitsch flick The Warriors, which is being projected onto a large outdoor screen from a small truck. We’re at a slightly upmarket Texan campground called El Cosmico. Young arty folk and chilled-out travellers are sitting on blankets, deckchairs or the scrubby desert ground, drinking beer from tall cans and quoting the cult film’s most memorable lines. Our accommodation is a timber floored yurt with heated futons. Other people sleep in tepees or El Cosmico’s carefully restored retro trailers. This ...

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