[LadyX]

Hmmmmm.....moving right along, the wayside is strewn with the Usual Assortment of dork charges, near-blows and resolution of an almost conflict..:)) - ducks and longhorn cattle and bluebonnets discussion - spectacular scenery - - at least eighty-eleven "Oh, How I Miss Texas" sobbing expatriates putting in their two cents worth - -

An "I'm Moving Announcement" - an awful lot of braggin' !! - and several "I Survived a Mad Dash Across The Too Big State of Texas !! testimonies.

To the latter, I can add that after a year of being in South Dakota and 3 1/2 years in Fairbanks, Alaska, the Lord had pity and sent me to Myrtle Beach, SC next, by way of Florida.

Traversing the Alaska Highway and plunging down the Rockies in the Lower 48, it was a Jackets-in-June Experience until we reached New Mexico and swung across Texas.

Billie and all y'all Texans - it was not Waltz Across Texas in our Greenbrier van with no a/c - 5 now hot bodies and a dog in 105 degree heat!! We positively sweltered, reaching Louisiana and holing up in an air-conditioned motel for a day to recover..:))

My thought on that interminable dash was,"Who on earth could live HERE??!!"
LOL

[Flyer]

reaching Louisiana and holing up in an air-conditioned motel

Hey we DO have air-conditioned motels in Texas, too.

[humblegunner]

"Who on earth could live HERE??!!"

Oh, yes, it's a bloody awful place...
But I can see how driving across the Texas desert might sour one.
It is indeed inhospitable! We think of it as a border.

[Libertina]

I am sorry I'm so late in coming :( Gearing up for tomorrow's Hillary FReep north of Seattle. But what an absolutely beautiful thread today. I'm ready to move to Texas! BTW, Carry Okie is coming to my area on Thursday to lecture on Property Rights. Several of us WA FReepers will be there to greet our FReeper brother and family :)

[Calpernia]

>>>near-blows, an almost conflict.

(lowers head, goes off to the corner)

I'm sorry :(

[lonestar]

...5 now hot bodies and a dog in 105 degree heat!!

As they saying goes, "If you don't like the weather, wait 30 minutes." Another,

"The sun has riz, the sun has set, and here I is in Texas yet." (somebody beat me to it?)

I actually live closer to Chicago than to El Paso. Maybe we should do some redistricting that direction, too. LOL!

[HoustonCurmudgeon]

My thought on that interminable dash was,"Who on earth could live HERE??!!"

While Texas is a perfectly wonderful place to live for most people, former Marines, wimps that they are, might find the going a bit tough. Try France! ;-)