Let me tell you something about Texas, it is big. Really big. For example, the drive from Houston to Los Angeles is about 1527 miles, give or take. And if you drive to the halfway point, it is EL PASO TEXAS! you are halfway there an you have not even left the state yet. This was my first drive corner to corner so to speak. I have driven the Houston-SoCal drive many times. Down I-1o into Blythe and beyond, down 8 into San Diego, and even across 40 once (that is the most interesting one). But from Houston to Lubbock there are no big interstate style mainline highways. We took a back country route up, and a fairly decent state highway, and yet we passed through many areas where we had to reduce speed to 35 or so miles an hour. Really wild.
However, the drive across texas is not with charms, for example we saw an 18 wheeler hauling an elephant. Okay sort of saw, the truck was next to us, and I looked into an open side door with one of those chain net lookng rigs, and there was a huge belly, two tree trunk legs and a skinny rope tail swinging around. Good enough for me, that is an Elephant! A little further down the road, we were admiring some really nice Longhorn cattle, one of which posed nicely for us, when I looked across the way and saw...zebras! Really, striped horse looking zebras. Of course we turned around and got pictures. This along with many different houses, cars, business and whatnot that lie along the road just to dazzle my curiosity. I have to say though, 9 1/2 hours in a car can kill a lot of curiosity, other than the wondering...are we home yet?
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Oh, yes. After my 10 hrr. + trip back from Totoland, I was saying to myself, "There's no place, like home, there's no place, like home; there's no place." Didn't work for me. The butt buster does take a lot of joy our of the travel. But seeing the kid finally graduate "Sooner Came Longest" (summa cum something) was a proud moment. God bless yours and God bless mine with good employment until He comes!
jellybread
An elephant in transport? Zebras grazing out in the open? I guess Texas' warm climate is conducive to these natives of Africa. Shoot! They probably enjoy Texas more! I wanna see those pictures!
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