Let me point out that, as a south Floridian, driving from Ft. Lauderdale to Houston after college was a similar experience.
-PJ
Heat and blue sky
And a road that goes forever
Been thinking ’bout it lately
Been watching some TV
Been looking all around me
And what has come to be
Been talking to my neighbour
And he agrees with me
It’s all gone crazy
Well, my wife returns from taking
My little girl to school
She got beads of perspiration
As she tries to keep her cool
She says, “That mess, it don’t get no better
There’s gonna come a day
Someone’s gonna get killed out there”
And I turn to her and say, “Texas”
She says, “What?”
I said, “Texas”
She says, “What?”
They got big long roads out there
Warm winds blowing
Heat and blue sky
And a road that goes forever
I’m going to Texas
We gotta get outta here
We gotta get outta here
Well, I got a little brother
Several meters high
Yeah, he’s built just like a quarterback
And he swears he’ll testify
He says he’s been to Texas
And that’s the only place to be
Big steaks, big girls, no trouble
Yeah, that’s the place for me
I’m going to Texas
Yeah, yeah
Oh, I’m going to Texas
Yeah, yeah
I’m going to Texas
Watch me walking
Watch me walking
Watch me walking
Yeah, yeah
“ is larger than over 160 counties”
Whoops
I’ve driven across Texas several times, you really don’t want to try it in an EV.
Winston forgot to do the renumbering. Guess he needs more re-education.
West Virginia. It’s bigger than you think...
I thought it interesting that the family who packs up and leaves is driving an old East German manufactured Trabant car. It had a horrible reputation when I was in Germany in the 1970s and 80s. Frequent break downs, smelly exhaust, etc.
I used to think of I-10 as my hitchhiking home, from Houston to Los Angeles and in later years San Diego, it was always adventurous and often resulted in months-long journies into parts unknown.
Tucson frequently took days to get out of, it was similar to a town outside of New Orleans where hitchhiking would suddenly die for a day or two.
I'VE DONE THAT!................
“Not everyone knows that it is larger than over 160 counties, at 268,597 square miles.”
Believe it or not, Texas is bigger than over 253 Texas counties and is the equivalent in size to the 254 counties in Texas.
That’s why I hang my hat in Tennessee.
bkmk
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.
This contains a number of snippets from George Jones songs.
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.
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???