The Milky WayFarer

The Milky WayFarer Fenced Zen Yard, Mini Golf, Bikes & Modern Design

One of our favorite West Texas pastimes: heading up to McDonald Observatory for a Star Party, where the telescopes are e...
09/18/2026

One of our favorite West Texas pastimes: heading up to McDonald Observatory for a Star Party, where the telescopes are enormous, the skies are impossibly dark, and everyone politely pretends they spotted Saturn first. 🔭✨

Marfa keeps things mysterious down on Earth. McDonald helps explain what’s happening overhead.

A must-do field trip from The Milky WayFarer. 🌌

The best outdoor game you’ve never played might be Finnish, but it feels right at home in Marfa.Meet Mölkky: toss a wood...
09/11/2026

The best outdoor game you’ve never played might be Finnish, but it feels right at home in Marfa.

Meet Mölkky: toss a wooden pin, knock down numbered skittles, and race to exactly 50 points. Go over 50 and you’re knocked back to 25, which is a very Finnish way of saying, don’t get cocky.

Easy to learn. Surprisingly strategic. Best enjoyed in the backyard with a cold drink, a little West Texas sunshine, and at least one person taking it far too seriously.

Just another way to play at The Milky WayFarer.

The Man in Black. Coffee for two. And nowhere to be in a hurry.Drop the needle, scan the wooden QR code, meet our custom...
09/04/2026

The Man in Black. Coffee for two. And nowhere to be in a hurry.

Drop the needle, scan the wooden QR code, meet our custom Desert Drip roast, and learn how to brew it like a barista, pajamas entirely acceptable.

Just another slow morning at The Milky WayFarer. ☕️🎶

08/30/2026

An unmade bed at an vacation rental? 😳

Hear us out.

We love great design. We’re just not convinced great design has to stay perfectly styled to be beautiful.

Wrinkled linen. A book left open. Boots by the door. A coffee cup that’s clearly on round two.

Those little signs of life might actually be when a space looks its best.

At The Milky WayFarer, we designed the house to be lived in, not tiptoed around. And somewhere along the way, we started thinking about the unmade bed as less of a mess and more like evidence of a really good morning.

We wrote a whole blog post about it: Imperfect by Design: The Art of the Unmade Bed.

Fair warning: it may make you feel considerably better about not making your bed today.

Read it at the link in bio.

Marfa has a dress code. Nobody wrote it down. It’s denim.This is me breaking it, for one afternoon, in a full Canadian t...
08/28/2026

Marfa has a dress code. Nobody wrote it down. It’s denim.

This is me breaking it, for one afternoon, in a full Canadian tux. It seemed funny at the time. It was funny at the time.

Vaqueros, James Dean, Donald Judd, and a fictional oilman played by Daniel Day-Lewis have all quietly worn the same pants in this town for 150 years. Not one of them in a Canadian tux. New blog post, link in bio.

Apparently Marfa has a dress code.Nobody bothered to write it down. 👖Cowboys and cowgirls. Vaqueros and vaqueras. Ranche...
08/25/2026

Apparently Marfa has a dress code.

Nobody bothered to write it down. 👖

Cowboys and cowgirls. Vaqueros and vaqueras. Ranchers. Artists. Movie stars. Donald Judd. Locals. Visitors. And, apparently, one guy willing to take the Canadian tuxedo all the way to a denim cowboy hat.

The more I looked into it, the more I realized blue jeans have been a common thread running through very different versions of Marfa for generations.

And maybe that’s part of why this Texas kid has always felt pretty comfortable here.

Coming soon: Marfa Has a Dress Code. Nobody Wrote It Down.

Our Leave a Book, Take a Book shelf has been popular.Very popular.Let’s just say the “taking” has been slightly outpacin...
08/25/2026

Our Leave a Book, Take a Book shelf has been popular.

Very popular.

Let’s just say the “taking” has been slightly outpacing the “leaving.” So, we called in literary reinforcements from Seattle.

You can see four books in the photo. There’s a small library hiding underneath them, courtesy of my sister and brother-in-law’s bookstore, Paper Boat Booksellers

Consider the WayFarer restocked and ready for its next plot twist. 📚

How does a West Texas town of about 2,000 people, with no stoplights, end up as one of the most important contemporary a...
08/09/2026

How does a West Texas town of about 2,000 people, with no stoplights, end up as one of the most important contemporary art destinations in the world?

We had questions.

So we went down the rabbit hole—from Donald Judd arriving with a truck full of art and a stubborn idea, to Chinati, Ballroom Marfa, Prada Marfa, and eventually generative art on the blockchain.

This is our take on how Marfa became Marfa.
Spoiler: like most things out here, the answer is a little strange, surprisingly complicated, and probably involves a long drive.

Link in bio.

One of our favorite tiny details.Custom retro-orange bedside power bricks with outlets, USB-A, and USB-C—ready for phone...
05/22/2026

One of our favorite tiny details.

Custom retro-orange bedside power bricks with outlets, USB-A, and USB-C—ready for phones, watches, mystery cords, and the charger you definitely forgot at home.

Marfa already asks enough of you. Your battery percentage shouldn’t be one of them.

This Lab knew. Bring the dog to Marfa.New on the blog: a guide to visiting Marfa with your four-legged person. Fenced ya...
05/09/2026

This Lab knew. Bring the dog to Marfa.

New on the blog: a guide to visiting Marfa with your four-legged person. Fenced yard, dog park near Larry’s, a town that welcomes them as warmly as you. Plus for handmade leashes, single-ingredient treats, and meal toppers worth the detour.

📸 at — dogs welcome inside.

Link in bio.

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