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The Bar => The Lounge => Topic started by: seahorse513 on February 15, 2011, 10:38:11 AM
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A friend of my nieces lives in ElPaso, TX. She is a midwife there. Anyway she had sent me some photos on ElPaso and surrounding areas.Mellinesa(sp?), New Mexico. What a beautiful area!! I have always wanted to go to Texas, now I really want to go!!!! They have these pecan groves that go on for miles!!! There is also a pic of the border fence...
It is funny that we live in such a country, that the differences (climate, topography)between the states are so extreme....
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I want to visit TX. I'm going to try to schedule a vacation this year (I don't always get one).
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I am going to search for a singles tour bus, and see what I can come with....That is the best way to go for me
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Texas is so huge that we pretty much have all types of climates and terrain. East Texas has the piney woods. Down around Houston is humid and muggy like the deep south. The deserts out west are beautiful. The panhandle plains are bitter cold in the winter with tons and tons of snow. Central Texas has the beautiful rolling hills and scraggly Mesquite trees. It's a very neat place to live.
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I happen to have a travel book on Tx which came with a map. I was thinking of taking a plane to San Antonio and traveling by bus to El Paso. Will have to do some research...
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That would bore you to tears. You'd only see hundreds and hundreds of miles of featureless desert My suggestion is to go from Texarkana to El Paso.
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That would bore you to tears. You'd only see hundreds and hundreds of miles of featureless desert My suggestion is to go from Texarkana to El Paso.
Yeah, but then there's Ft. Stockton. That's an education all by itself. ;)
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A friend of my nieces lives in ElPaso, TX. She is a midwife there. Anyway she had sent me some photos on ElPaso and surrounding areas.Mellinesa(sp?), New Mexico. What a beautiful area!! I have always wanted to go to Texas, now I really want to go!!!! They have these pecan groves that go on for miles!!! There is also a pic of the border fence...
It is funny that we live in such a country, that the differences (climate, topography)between the states are so extreme....
I grew up there and still haven't seen half the state. I'd love to go to Palo Duro Canyon and Big Bend. I think a road trip is in order :)
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That would bore you to tears. You'd only see hundreds and hundreds of miles of featureless desert.
Yeah, there isn't much to look at from the Metroplex to El Paso. Went with some college friends on a spring break drive to Tucson/Phoenix/Vegas. We got about an hour or two outside Fort Worth and were starting to get bored. Well, being young & stupid, we saw a drive-thru liquor store & bought beer for the rest of the drive. It seemed to take FOREVER to get out of Texas.
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Yeah, there isn't much to look at from the Metroplex to El Paso. Went with some college friends on a spring break drive to Tucson/Phoenix/Vegas. We got about an hour or two outside Fort Worth and were starting to get bored. Well, being young & stupid, we saw a drive-thru liquor store & bought beer for the rest of the drive. It seemed to take FOREVER to get out of Texas.
Now there are THOUSANDS of windmills to see. It's actually really cool.
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Now there are THOUSANDS of windmills to see. It's actually really cool.
And MILLIONS of pancake armadillos!!
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From Junction, TX to Ft. Stockton, TX is miles and miles of miles and miles but you can do 80 mph so it helps.
There are 3 places I love in Texas. The east Texas Piney Woods, The Hill Country and West Texas around Big Bend/Alpine. The Davis Mountains are AWESOME especially on a motorcycle.
KC
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That would bore you to tears. You'd only see hundreds and hundreds of miles of featureless desert My suggestion is to go from Texarkana to El Paso.
Thankyou for that advice,,,,I like Nature Preserves,botanical gardens and history. I was just reading an article on the Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge, Eagle Pass looks interesting as does Laredo
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I want to visit TX. I'm going to try to schedule a vacation this year (I don't always get one).
If'n ya make it down to SE Texas give me a holler!
KC
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I'll be around the DFW area. Haven't made any plans yet, but I would like to get down there this year.
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I'll be around the DFW area. Haven't made any plans yet, but I would like to get down there this year.
Summer in DFW is really the best time. Late July through August. :-)
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From Junction, TX to Ft. Stockton, TX is miles and miles of miles and miles but you can do 80 mph so it helps.
There are 3 places I love in Texas. The east Texas Piney Woods, The Hill Country and West Texas around Big Bend/Alpine. The Davis Mountains are AWESOME especially on a motorcycle.
KC
I can vouch for the Piney Woods, and The Hill Country. Never been west of Mineral Wells. But, I do love Possum Kingdom.
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Summer in DFW is really the best time. Late July through August. :-)
September ain't too shabby either. :fuelfire:
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Chris, we'll have to have a get together for those of in North Central Texas when you decide to visit.
Texas Cop, I noticed that you didn't mention North Central Texas!! :hammer: :hammer: Whatsammater with you?!?!?!?!?
Ralph, yeah Dallas is just f'n WONDERFUL in July/Aug time frame IF you like 100+ degree temps and a high relative humidity. :whatever:
Seahorse, the mountains East of El Paso are fairly nice, but once you get past Van Horn and all the way to Big Springs is pretty much desert. I've driven I-10 to I-20 quite a few times (and on into Dallas)
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Chris, we'll have to have a get together for those of in North Central Texas when you decide to visit.
Texas Cop, I noticed that you didn't mention North Central Texas!! :hammer: :hammer: Whatsammater with you?!?!?!?!?
Ralph, yeah Dallas is just f'n WONDERFUL in July/Aug time frame IF you like 100+ degree temps and a high relative humidity. :whatever:
Seahorse, the mountains East of El Paso are fairly nice, but once you get past Van Horn and all the way to Big Springs is pretty much desert. I've driven I-10 to I-20 quite a few times (and on into Dallas)
Uh, I dunno, maybe it is because he lives in North Central Texas???? I ain't talking NORTH NORTH Central Texas, where you are, just North Central Texas, where we are. It isn't much to look at, really. Comparatively speaking anyway.
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September ain't too shabby either. :fuelfire:
One year I decided to take a couple of summer school classes & couldn't believe how freaking hot it was. Day after day after day. Better than cold, though.
The absolute worst was the "formal" part of fraternity rush every year. We all had to wear coat & tie for the first two days of rush. Absolutely brutal.
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One year I decided to take a couple of summer school classes & couldn't believe how freaking hot it was. Day after day after day. Better than cold, though.
The absolute worst was the "formal" part of fraternity rush every year. We all had to wear coat & tie for the first two days of rush. Absolutely brutal.
Yeah, summer lasts till Thanksgiving most years, it seems.
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my in laws lived in Livingston for many years. but the family is up here in MO. so they packed and moved back here last summer
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my in laws lived in Livingston for many years. but the family is up here in MO. so they packed and moved back here last summer
I think that is close to Texacon. Small world.
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I think that is close to Texacon. Small world.
could be. lake Livingston is next to this town. its like crossing an ocean !!!!
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could be. lake Livingston is next to this town. its like crossing an ocean !!!!
I remember that!
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I think that is close to Texacon. Small world.
30 miles by road .... 25 by lake.
Yup, Lake Livingston is the second largest in the state. Roughly 100,000 acres of impounded water. I LOVE it here.
KC
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could be. lake Livingston is next to this town. its like crossing an ocean !!!!
The bridge across the middle of the lake is 2 miles long. South of that the lake is between 5 and 7 miles wide depending on how you measure it. It is roughly 50 miles from the top of the lake (hwy 19 bridge) to the bottom ... at the dam.
KC
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I remember that!
TX also gives seniors big tax breaks as well - the main reason they moved down there. I used to fly to Dallas for co training a lot. the SOB's always sent me in jul and aug when it was 300 degrees !!!! HA
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The bridge across the middle of the lake is 2 miles long. South of that the lake is between 5 and 7 miles wide depending on how you measure it. It is roughly 50 miles from the top of the lake (hwy 19 bridge) to the bottom ... at the dam.
KC
I think the USN can operate in there :lmao: the bridge we crossed was only 2 lanes. and they had a lotta wrecks on it including some that went over and into the lake
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I think the USN can operate in there :lmao: the bridge we crossed was only 2 lanes. and they had a lotta wrecks on it
Same bridge. Seems like someone dies on that bridge every couple of years. It's a little better now since they don't allow fishermen to park on the shoulder.
KC
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Same bridge. Seems like someone dies on that bridge every couple of years. It's a little better now since they don't allow fishermen to park on the shoulder.
KC
bad place for a break down. car don't fail me now !!!!
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Uh, I dunno, maybe it is because he lives in North Central Texas???? I ain't talking NORTH NORTH Central Texas, where you are, just North Central Texas, where we are. It isn't much to look at, really. Comparatively speaking anyway.
I did some work for BP up in the Texas panhandle a few years back (feel free to BS me if that isn't considered "North-Central Texas" enough). A little town northeast of Amarillo called Dumas. I could never figure out if the name of the town was pronounced "Dumb ass" or "Doom us". :lmao:
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I did some work for BP up in the Texas panhandle a few years back (feel free to BS me if that isn't considered "North-Central Texas" enough). A little town northeast of Amarillo called Dumas. I could never figure out if the name of the town was pronounced "Dumb ass" or "Doom us". :lmao:
That's North WEST Texas, dumb ass....... (sorry, couldn't resist the pun)
North Central is like from Wichita Falls and on East to about Bonham and south to about Waxahachie.
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I did some work for BP up in the Texas panhandle a few years back (feel free to BS me if that isn't considered "North-Central Texas" enough). A little town northeast of Amarillo called Dumas. I could never figure out if the name of the town was pronounced "Dumb ass" or "Doom us". :lmao:
There is a guy down south of us here that runs a business called "Dum Ass" tacos. I think he's from that region ... don't know why.
KC
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There is a guy down south of us here that runs a business called "Dum Ass" tacos. I think he's from that region ... don't know why.
KC
Probably because it's a great place to be from. Not necessarily a great place to be, but a great place to be FROM. :-)
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I am going to holiday in Tx, and maybe just maybe I will find me a nice Texan cowboy
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That's North WEST Texas, dumb ass....... (sorry, couldn't resist the pun)
North Central is like from Wichita Falls and on East to about Bonham and south to about Waxahachie.
I thought that was just the Panhandle. :whatever:
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Uh, I dunno, maybe it is because he lives in North Central Texas???? I ain't talking NORTH NORTH Central Texas, where you are, just North Central Texas, where we are. It isn't much to look at, really. Comparatively speaking anyway.
Careful or I'm going to revoke your Texas visitor's permit..... :fuelfire:
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I thought that was just the Panhandle. :whatever:
Panhandle works, too.
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I am going to holiday in Tx, and maybe just maybe I will find me a nice Texan cowboy
I thought that you were a guy?!?!?!? ::yikes::
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Careful or I'm going to revoke your Texas visitor's permit..... :fuelfire:
:lmao:
I daresay I have lived in this state continuously more than you have. Matter of fact, I may have lived in this state for MORE than you have. Or at least really close. Thank you, USN.
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I thought that you were a guy?!?!?!? ::yikes::
:lmao: :lmao: :lmao: :lmao: :lmao: :lmao: :lmao:
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I am going to holiday in Tx, and maybe just maybe I will find me a nice Texan cowboy
Seahorse, pay great heed to this song:
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_a4BU09GrU[/youtube]
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:lmao:
I daresay I have lived in this state continuously more than you have. Matter of fact, I may have lived in this state for MORE than you have. Or at least really close. Thank you, USN.
I maintained my Texas residency during my entire Navy career........ TYVM.......
and I'm STILL a Native Texan....... you're NOT!! :tongue: :-)
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I maintained my Texas residency during my entire Navy career........ TYVM.......
and I'm STILL a Native Texan....... you're NOT!! :tongue: :-)
Bah! It ain't my fault my Daddy was serving this great country of ours overseas when I was born. :tongue:
And, weren't you a MN resident at some point???????
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I was stationed in El Paso--FT Bliss--for two years with 2d Squadron, 3d Armored Cavalry Regiment. It was interesting country. I'm used to green and hilly, kinda like the Adirondacks, and when I got down there, I was saying to myself: "You ****ed up. This is brown and flat!"
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Bah! It ain't my fault my Daddy was serving this great country of ours overseas when I was born. :tongue:
And, weren't you a MN resident at some point???????
Unfortunately, yes, I was a MN resident. That was against MY preferences, though.
Was your daddy a Native Texan??
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Unfortunately, yes, I was a MN resident. That was against MY preferences, though.
Was your daddy a Native Texan??
No, but my Mama was. Born in Temple, TX.
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No, but my Mama was. Born in Temple, TX.
Well, I MIGHT make some concessions......
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Well, I MIGHT make some concessions......
Well, thank you very much.
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I thought that you were a guy?!?!?!? ::yikes::
With a screen name like seahorse!!!!???
You can call me tania
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With a screen name like seahorse!!!!???
You can call me tania
Seahorses are asexual...... just sayin'........ :rotf: :rotf: :rotf:
Sorry for the confusion
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oh poo poo padoo - lets get to the serious Q
how's the BBQ down there???
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oh poo poo padoo - lets get to the serious Q
how's the BBQ down there???
I've only found a couple of places that are decent. I'm pretty disappointed in the places I have available to me locally. It all goes back to the old adage, "If you want something done right, do it yourself."
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I've only found a couple of places that are decent. I'm pretty disappointed in the places I have available to me locally. It all goes back to the old adage, "If you want something done right, do it yourself."
that's what my father N law told me when he lived down there. it really sucked. which I found very hard to believe.
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that's what my father N law told me when he lived down there. it really sucked. which I found very hard to believe.
BBQ is an art form. Too many people THINK that they are "artists". Eupher can attest to my BBQ.... (I could have & have done better, but it was still pretty good)
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BBQ is an art form. Too many people THINK that they are "artists". Eupher can attest to my BBQ.... (I could have & have done better, but it was still pretty good)
I was perfectly happy with it. It was good and I ATE!
(not like now...... :bawl: )
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I think the bbq is good down here, but like Thor, I get mine from people that do their own. Once stuff becomes too commercialized, the quality goes down hill. Sure, you can get it, but it isn't all that special. Although, Babe's Chicken House does ribs quite well. For brisket? I have peeps. If I find em on sale for a good price, I will donate one to the bbq-er in question to do mine up right.
One thing I loathe around the bbq places around here is the premade tater salad. It is a crime to buy it already made, and serve it. IMHO.
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oh poo poo padoo - lets get to the serious Q
how's the BBQ down there???
Darnedest place I ever traveled through except the salt flats in Utah.
Desert at night in August, the Moon and stars look like they are only 100 feet over your head-- Amazing, the size of the moon out there.
Some places are much like being out to sea you can look as far as you can see 360 degree in all areas and see the curvature of the earth----
-----sort of.
I don't know really what I expected Texas to be like but every day after 10 hours on the road the landscape changed. That is one Mother of a state, HUGE.
Pick where you are going very carefully, Unlike up here , Texas is so large it would be like you trying to visit all of New England and New York in one or two weeks.
Do not be surprised if you decide to transfer stores to live in Texas, Wide open spaces gives meaning to Gods Country .
Hubby lived in Waco and LOVED it, He got an apartment on the campus of Baylor U. through the company he worked for and a couple years was transferred back north, I think he cried all the way home.
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Darnedest place I ever traveled through except the salt flats in Utah.
Desert at night in August, the Moon and stars look like they are only 100 feet over your head-- Amazing, the size of the moon out there.
Some places are much like being out to sea you can look as far as you can see 360 degree in all areas and see the curvature of the earth----
-----sort of.
I don't know really what I expected Texas to be like but every day after 10 hours on the road the landscape changed. That is one Mother of a state, HUGE.
Pick where you are going very carefully, Unlike up here , Texas is so large it would be like you trying to visit all of New England and New York in one or two weeks.
Do not be surprised if you decide to transfer stores to live in Texas, Wide open spaces gives meaning to Gods Country .
Hubby lived in Waco and LOVED it, He got an apartment on the campus of Baylor U. through the company he worked for and a couple years was transferred back north, I think he cried all the way home.
I like it! :cheersmate:
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Seahorses are asexual...... just sayin'........ :rotf: :rotf: :rotf:
Sorry for the confusion
No way Thor, worms are asexual, Seahorses are even stranger..The femail lays her eggs in the Males pouch on the belly to fertilize and he gives birth. Kind of fun watching that poor male squirting out hundreds of baby's.
Least that is what they tell me, if Seahorses were asexual, there would be no need for the male of the species.
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Texas, Wide open spaces gives meaning to Gods Country .
Thankyou so much for the insight dearest Vesta.
I don't know about transferring stores, but i would love to see the open skies, never been to a desert before. Never seen a prairie. I know when i go, TX will be everything I dreamed it will be.
Of course there are a few other states I want to see as well. Do you know i have never seen the Grand Canyon?? or Mt Rushmore? I better get cookin....
The USA is definitely on my bucket list!!
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Thankyou so much for the insight dearest Vesta.
I don't know about transferring stores, but i would love to see the open skies, never been to a desert before. Never seen a prairie. I know when i go, TX will be everything I dreamed it will be.
Of course there are a few other states I want to see as well. Do you know i have never seen the Grand Canyon?? or Mt Rushmore? I better get cookin....
The USA is definitely on my bucket list!!
Mount Rushmore is overrated. Yellowstone is something to experience. San Diego is worth a visit. The Permian Basin of Texas kind of sucks (West of Midland). It just stinks.
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Mount Rushmore is overrated. Yellowstone is something to experience. San Diego is worth a visit. The Permian Basin of Texas kind of sucks (West of Midland). It just stinks.
Yeah but just south of there you have Balmorhea park/spring and Big Bend! The Davis Mountains! McDonald Observatory! Terlingua Chili Festival! Lajitas with the beer drinking goat for a mayor!
Ahhhh good times there.
KC
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Mount Rushmore is overrated. Yellowstone is something to experience. San Diego is worth a visit. The Permian Basin of Texas kind of sucks (West of Midland). It just stinks.
Thanks Thor...I will take that into consideration...I was disapointed in DisneyWorld however....
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Thanks Thor...I will take that into consideration...I was disapointed in DisneyWorld however....
Gee whiz, if you haven't been much of anywhere, you need to see more! Not Disney, but real stuff. Texas is a good start, but there is so much more. I agree with Thor, Mount Rushmore is cool, but you have to spend so much time to get there, it really isn't worth it.
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Gee whiz, if you haven't been much of anywhere, you need to see more! Not Disney, but real stuff. Texas is a good start, but there is so much more. I agree with Thor, Mount Rushmore is cool, but you have to spend so much time to get there, it really isn't worth it.
The problem with 'seeing' Texas is it is SO DAMN BIG. Hell you come into Texas on I-10 in Orange and the mile markers are 990 range. It is farther from me to El Paso than it is to Chicago!
:lmao:
KC
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The problem with 'seeing' Texas is it is SO DAMN BIG. Hell you come into Texas on I-10 in Orange and the mile markers are 990 range. It is farther from me to El Paso than it is to Chicago!
:lmao:
KC
I know! And Orange is ooky!
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I know! And Orange is ooky!
I know right. I hated Orange.
KC
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I know right. I hated Orange.
KC
Silsbee is worse. :cheersmate:
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One one of my leaves from San Diego (that's "vacation" for you civilians), my car broke down 60 miles West of Pecos, TX. just as I crested a hill. There was a snowstorm that hit El Paso and Van Horn behind us and the truckers were saying that there were no rooms in Van Horn. The tow truck driver took pity on me and towed me to Pecos for $50. My ex & I got the very last room in Pecos. Did I say that I was driving a Datsun?? The next morning, after freezing our butts off in the hotel room, I tore into the car to see what was wrong. Major Transmission damage due to some faulty maintenance by a dealership. Not a single place in town that carried ANY Datsun parts. Nearest place was Midland, which was still 150 miles away. MY Dad drove from Denison to Pecos, we hooked up the car with a tow bar and towed it back to Denison. That was New Year's Eve day, We fought a snowstorm most of the way back. After New Year's Day, I got the equipment together to pull the engine & tranny. I pulled those from the vehicle and figured out what I needed. $800 in parts later and waiting a week, I reassembled the tranny and reinstalled everything. Did I mention that it was snowing and sleeting all the time I was working on the car and I only had a carport to work under. I rented a torpedo heater and got a tarp and closed off the carport as best as I could. Thank God I was younger then. Even so, El Paso was only halfway between San Diego & Denison. Go figure....
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Silsbee is worse. :cheersmate:
I don't know. At least Silsbee has some trees. All Orange has is chemical factories and stench. Of course the whole Golden Triangle is like that. Anytime you drive past a plant and you 'feel' like you've been punched in the nose it can't be good.
KC
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I don't know. At least Silsbee has some trees. All Orange has is chemical factories and stench. Of course the whole Golden Triangle is like that. Anytime you drive past a plant and you 'feel' like you've been punched in the nose it can't be good.
KC
It's all just a pit, after the Piney Woods, and until you are on I-10 well past Lake Charles.