[narby]

I'll never forget my move from Houston to Los Angeles.

Packed up the U-Haul, and launched off early one morning. Drove hard all day, and spent the night somewhere in west Tx.

Got up early the next day, and drove hard almost all day, and finally got to El Paso.

Figured out it was farther from Houston to El Paso than from El Paso, through New Mexico, Arizona, and the California desert to Los Angeles.

D@mn, what a big place.

Only more impressive drive was 5 days on paved roads in Alaska. Then looking at a map of the whole state and discovering I had seen only a teeny corner of it.

[ErnBatavia]

That's the reason there's that old country song, "Lookin' at Texas in my rearview mirror"

[ru4liberty]

I made that exact same trek several years back. People were incredulous when I told them that El Paso was the halfway point between Houston and Los Angeles. More non-Texans were surprised by that factoid than Texans. ;)

[stands2reason]

"The sun has rose and the sun has set, but we ain't out of Texas yet!"