Posted on 06/03/2016 4:13:30 PM PDT by West Texas Chuck
Now I know I'll get some haters for this post, it's cool. Tell me why you love your lands.
One of the most visceral, physical, intense experiences I ever had. It was up in Hale County when I was a teen.
The heads of the wheat stalks sizzling from being thrashed about by the winds, my body being tugged and shoved around and whipped by the force. I remember it like it was yesterday.
That sounds lovely. I understand why you love it.
We all love our country and we refuse to let it fall into the hands of communist/fascist totalitarians! NeverTrumperism be damned! Hillary/Bernie must be defeated!!
My brother went to the Marine Military Academy in Harlingen, TX, but we were living in Illinois at the time. The first time we took him there for school, I knew I wanted to move to Texas some day. Discovering Whataburger in Victoria didn’t hurt either. :)
Mah brotha of the sacred burger :)
I grew up in California...LA & Sacramento. After I got married we moved to Wyoming where our nearest neighbor is two miles away. The air is clean, it’s so quiet in the winter it’s stunning, and I do not miss the mobs of ‘diversity’ that I used to have to contend with every day.
And here if a deputy asks me if I have a gun it’s usually because he wants to make sure I have one, not because he’s going to terrorize me for exercising my rights.
Here in this place I am free.
Treking out of the Chisos Basin to the Window, Padre Island and who could forget those mysterious East Texas Pines.
The Great Music and Beer keep me in the Hill Country.
Today I had a revealing interchange with a fellow Texan. He was pick up two bags of ice from the freezer in front of the local convenience store. I instinctively held the door for him. He thanked me but said he was not going inside. I nodded and went inside.
Then it dawned on me why Texas is different from Massachusetts from which I fled. In Massachusetts few people would hold the door open for another person nor would anyone in Massachusetts be likely to thank me for holding the door for them. But that was not what struck me as the important difference.
I realized that here in Texas people pay for their ice and then pick it up from the cooler outside which is unlocked. In Massachusetts, the cooler is locked. When a person purchases ice one of the people from the convenience store unlocks the cooler, lets the person have the ice they purchased and locks the cooler.
In short, not only are people here more refined and friendly, they are also more honest than the jamokes living in Massachusetts.
For me standing by the ocean,at night,in heavy fog,hearing a fog horn off in the distance is an absolute delight.
Different strokes. :-)
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Sounds like my kind of place. My kids have often told me that I was born way too far north. Texas and I would be a real good fit.
I am West Texas born and back retired (12 years) after living a lot of different places. Nothing like the sunsets, desolation, clear skies, bright stars and cool breezes. I think the answer to many of our current issues has to do with federalism and a reassertion of state sovereignty. I love my country but liberalism and the abuses of federal power are beginning to make me love my state more.
We lived in Texas when first married. I always liked the state, especially East Texas.
I dated a girl from San Marcos. She was pretty as a speckled pup and there were plenty more like her.
When I lived in Western Kansas, people were constantly asking if I was from Texas. I was born and raised in NW Florida. Texans remind me a lot of the people I grew up with.
Upon first moving to Texas (from Cincinnati), crossing into the state at Texarkana where, suddenly, the sun came out, the median and roadside was filled with a profusion of bluebonnets and Indian paintbrush...and the milepost read 838 — something you’d not see in any other state.
Born and raised around Dallas - from a plaque given to me when I moved to NY (BRIEFLY!!)
For those who know,no words are necessary.
For those who don’t know, words can not explain.
God bless Texas!
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See my ‘about’ or bio page.
Short history of Texas and lots of pictures of my beloved Texas.
Never thought of leaving. Never will.
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Possum on the Half Shell!
They make a nice popping sound when you roll over them with a big truck.
My brother went to the Marine Military Academy in Harlingen, TX, but we were living in Illinois at the time. The first time we took him there for school, I knew I wanted to move to Texas some day. Discovering Whataburger in Victoria didn’t hurt either. :)
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I grew up in Victoria.
Enjoyed many ‘Whataburger’s and fishing, swimming in the beautiful Guadalupe river that runs almost through town.
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Only been out of Texas once. Took a plane with some friends who were sent to Boston by their company to a special instruction school of some sort.
I found it very strange and foreign to me.
Could hardly understand a word anyone said.
Found most I ran into rather cold and unfriendly..I was so glad to get back to Texas.
(but I did enjoy seeing all the old historical places I’d only read about)
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