Posted on 01/14/2017 5:30:34 PM PST by vis a vis
Texas is a big place!”
You’ve got that right. We just drove non-stop from Flagstaff, Arizona, across to Houston. Didn’t think we’d ever get home. Lots and lots and lots of construction going on all around the Dallas-Fort Worth area.
If you go through Childress (and you will if you take the DFW route), stop at the Texas Tea House on Sabine St. it is owned by a very sweet young woman single mom (divorced iirc) she makes all the food and serves family style lunch. Don't let the'Tea House' fool you. The food is great!
Ah...no problemo, amigo.
Probably a three-day trip for a solo driver.
I am hoping for good weather like that on my drive. This drive is full steam ahead. But I will be back soon on a more leisurely trip.
I have driven every mile of I10 from Jacksonville Fl to Los Angeles/and or San Diego more than once.....some really beautiful places in those far out spaces. Good thing I like to drive.
Travel at the right time of year you can catch a tornado or two anywhere in the panhandle. The worst Ice and snow problems we routinely encountered was between Gallup and Albuquerque.
The most irritating road signage is "Why not Moriarity tonight". However that is a mild second to "The Thing" going the other way through New Mexico to Arizona. You may see a Wall Drug sign anywhere.
By way of Dallas-Ft Worth??
Ya shoulda made a right at Albuquerque.
however you go, pack extra water, meals, clothes. survival
backpack.
Too bad. We ain't giving it back! LOL
From the link:
"While the Texas-New Mexico border officially was established by the Compromise of 1850, its precise boundaries were subject to interpretation, the whims of Mother Nature, and – whoops! – simple human error. It turns out that when surveyor John H. Clark in 1859 established the nation’s 103rd meridian as the border between Texas and New Mexico, he accidentally set the boundary about three miles too far west.
The narrow strip of debated land runs along New Mexico’s now-eastern border for 320 miles and encompasses the now-Texas towns of Farwell, Texline, Bledsoe and Bronco.
“That’s our land!” declared officials of the territory of New Mexico, after the error was uncovered during their bid for statehood in 1910. “Don’t even think about it,” replied the state of Texas, which hadn’t been keen about relinquishing slavery or the territory of New Mexico in the first place. “Drop it – or else forget about becoming a state,” Congress told the New Mexicans in 1911.
And so the matter festered for the next 100 years, erupting most recently with a 2005 bill in the New Mexico Senate suing Texas for the land, which died in the legislative process. Two years before, the land commissioners of the two states had proposed to settle the dispute with an old-fashioned duel using antique pistols, followed by a skeet shoot. Fortunately, no modern-day blood was shed, but neither was the issue resolved.
“The exhibit shows that we are still fighting border wars,” said Dr. Frances Levine, director of the New Mexico History Museum. “We don’t always have guns drawn, but our states haggle over political boundaries all the time."
...........when you get to Austin, just keep going!
Seriously speaking, time your trip where you hit Austin between 10 am and 2pm unless you like Manhattan type traffic.
Sunday would be better.
Don’t leave town without going to Cisco’s Bakery for breakfast. Just about every governor and President has eaten there. It’s a Tex-Mex breakfast with home made biscuits. Mixed drinks available.
been awhile since you been here?
Posted Speed on 130 on East Side of Austin is 85mph.
Slim Jims and bourbon.
Ya shoulda made a right at Albuquerque.”
Best as I recall, Houston, Texas, is not west of Albuquerque. We took I-40 east to 287 South, but still ran into lots of construction.
I have driven I-10 from Houston to Los Angeles in an MGB when I was young and foolish.
You're correct, but if you're traveling east from Flagstaff, you can go south (right) at Albuquerque, then take I-10 east to Houston, thus avoiding the nightmare traffic of DFW.
Waze app is the best. It re-routed us around Austin, on a trip, yesterday...due to the (constant??) gridlock on 71.
Alaska is bigger. Much bigger.
If you’re traveling with my daughter-in-law you take the route she mapped out. LOL. When we drive out, we go to Scottsdale first and take I-10 to what seems like almost the end of the world from Houston and then head north in Arizona. Seems like a lot more trucks on I-40 than on I-10 and we had a lot of wind in southwest Texas this year. Just a long way.
Didn’t realize that all the construction was going on in the Dallas area. At least we hit there about 2 a.m. so traffic wasn’t so bad.
Maybe one of these days Trump will get rid of TSA and we can fly once again.
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