Posted on 02/24/2024 4:40:09 PM PST by MtnClimber
Everyone knows that Texas is big. Not everyone knows that it is larger than over 160 counties, at 268,597 square miles. Anyone who has ever driven through Texas, heading east to west or west to east, has asked himself at least three times, “When are we going to get out of Texas?” That 850-plus-mile journey on Interstate 10 inside Texas humbles many road warriors.
So how did Texas just up and vanish?
Well, the State of Texas is where it has always been and is just fine. Growing in population more and more each day, Texas is one of the big beneficiaries as the BSE (Blue State Exodus) continues in earnest.
No, the Texas that has vanished is the fabulous song written by the great British guitarist, singer, and songwriter, Chris Rea.
Released in 1990, Rea’s song “Texas” is popular in Texas and around the world. The song has been played at many Texas sporting events and celebrations, and as background music at the Texas Rangers’ games in Arlington. If you can find the CD or vinyl Road to Hell Album, it is the fourth song.
However, if you search for “Texas” on any streaming service, you will find some interesting results.
On Apple Music, “Texas” is missing from the Road to Hell album.
On Amazon Music, they have replaced the 1990 song “Texas” (5:09 duration) that is on the Road to Hell album with the 1983 song “Texas” (4:01 duration), which is from the album Water Sign. Same song name, but two completely different and non-related songs.
On Spotify, they repeat the Amazon method by listing a song called “Texas” (4:01 duration). You find that it is the 1983 version from the Water Sign album.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
I wonder if the Trabant is a 2 cycle instead of 4 cycle engine, thus the extra smoke. Like the Chicom Deer sedan.
“Try it on a motorcycle, like I have—several times.”
I did it twice on my 750 Honda several years ago, quite a challenge.
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Honda 750 single-cam, Gold Wing 1000CC.
Houston sucks to go through, don’t forget the I12 bypass around New Orleans.
“..Try it on a motorcycle...”
Yep. For sure... It can be a really mean stretch of road, especially on a bike.
The Iron Butt Association has a ride that they call the Bun Burner Gold (one has to complete their standard Bun Burner first (1500 miles in 36 hours) in order to be eligible for certification of doing the Bun Burner Gold: 1500 miles in 24 hours.
That I-10 stretch from the Texas Welcome Center coming in from the east out ofLouisiana, then riding a tad over 750 miles of I-10, turning right around and coming back to the starting point to make 1500 miles in 24 hours. It’s a pretty hefty challenge. It’s one of the few stretches of road in the USA that one can do the Bun Burner Gold and stay legal due to Texas’ higher speed limits. Going thru Houston and San Antonio in the morning hours on a Sunday helps a lot....LOL
Let me point out that, as a south Floridian, driving from Ft. Lauderdale to Houston after college was a similar experience.
You are correct, it had a 2 cycle engine and a plastic body.
See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trabant
I did one trip from Tucson to Galveston back in 1974 after spring semester at the University of Arizona. I had a classmate who also had a 750 Honda and we decided to take a road trip to go visit his family. Spent the first night in Van Horn. Stayed for two weeks in Galveston and rode home.
Not because of exes?
PHX AZ to JAX FL then US 17 up to ORF VA (Norfolk), 1973, Honda 750 single cam.
PHX AZ to JAX FL, up US 17 to Columbia SC, 1000CC Gold Wing, 1977. Took that one to Germany with me (USAF). Can you say “Howling Good Times”?
To attend a school, i drove from my humble east Texas home to Omaha, Nebraska. 770 miles. The classmates were dumbfounded that i undertoook this. I asked, “would you be curious and question if I said that I drove to El Paso, TX?” They all unanimously said “of course not”. Then I enlightened them that Omaha was not as far from my house than El Paso. 780 miles to be exact.
Yes. Texas is huge.
I remember seeing a vintage linen postcard fifty years ago.
It showed people in a car, and the saying printed on the front of the postcard.....
“The sun has ‘ris
The sun has set.
And here we is
in Texas yet.”
According to Wikipedia:
I-10 from the Louisiana state line to El Paso is longer than I-10 from El Paso to Los Angeles and it is also longer than from the TX/LA state line to Jacksonville, FL.
Twice a year I go from my house in Northwest Mississippi (20 miles south of Memphis) to El Paso all in one day. I pick up a coworker south of Little Rock on the way. At least once I did all the driving myself…1,110 miles just to say I did it. If I were alone I would have had to stop for a nap along the way. I leave my house about 0515 Central time and arrive in El Paso about 2130 Mountain time.
This contains a number of snippets from George Jones songs.
If you drive from Houston to LA, you’re still in Texas at the halfway point.
Alaska vanished Texas, that’s who. On January 3, 1959 Texas became the second largest state. If we cut Alaska in half Texas would be the third largest state.
As I recall, Des Moines, Iowa, to Brownsviĺle, Texas, half the trip driving is in Texas.
I checked it out on Spotify and the article seems to be correct. The original sounds pretty good...
Chris Rea - Texas (removed from Apple and switched on Spotify)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqBCurSwK3k
Do these corporate scum really think a SONG is why people are fleeing New York and Maryland for Texas and Florida???
Old joke I still remember.
A salesman was in El Paso when his boss in Chicago called to say; “While you’re in Texas, run over to Texarkana and make a sales presentation.”
The salesman said: YOU go to Texarkana. You’re closer to it than I am.”
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