Texas Is Big

[billroper]

Texas is big. Really big. It took us about five hours to get out of Texas today, despite taking the short cut north through Wichita Falls. We spent 14 hours on the road today, traveling 808 miles according to Mapquest.

Tomorrow's trip to Danville, Indiana to visit bedlamhouse and ladyat should be much easier.

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[msminlr.livejournal.com]

Texas is big. Really big. It took us about five hours to get out of Texas today, despite taking the short cut north through Wichita Falls.

ROTFLMAO

From where I live now, it only takes me two to 2.5 hours to get out of Arkansas in any direction, but you begin to see why MaryKay and I used to think nothing of driving 15 to 18 hours to get to ConFusion back when Marty Burke was singing at Sweeney's.

Trivia point: There is more of Interstate 10 in Texas than there is from either ElPaso to the Pacific Ocean or Beaumont to the Atlantic Ocean. I forget by how much, but I DID add it up once upon a time.

[billroper]

I believe this. Oh, boy, do I believe this. :)

[celticmom1967.livejournal.com]

I used to live in Texas. When I was WAY younger I lived in Wichita Falls (pre-kindergarten - 2nd grade) because my father was in the Air Force. Then after college, I lived in San Antonio for 4 years because my husband was in the Air Force. I'd love to go back and visit. I love San Antonio and the Hill Country.

Good luck on your travels. Take it easy!

[billroper]

My brother used to live in San Antonio. It's very pretty there.

[faxpaladin.livejournal.com]

"The sun is riz, the sun is set, but here we is, in Texas yet."

I mentioned I grew up in Marfa. My sister and her family (and Mom, now) lived near msminlr, in central Arkansas. Except when Dad got stubborn about it, this always involved staying at a motel while we were still in Texas, after 12-15 hours of driving. (Actually, not quite always -- a couple of times we stayed in a Ramada that was just across State Line Avenue in Texarkana...)

[faxpaladin.livejournal.com]

I should say, "near where msminlr does now," come to think of it...

Texas is big

[(Anonymous)]

I remember that when my father moved out to Arizona, he drove there by way of Texas. He told me that Texas is bigger than the entire continental United States. Including Texas. (And yet he never understood what I was talking about when I tried to explain recursion to him...)

-Chris Clayton

Re: Texas is big

[msminlr.livejournal.com]

Perception is everything.