Some Photo Highlights From Our Trip to Texas

[CO Liberal]

A sign in Lake Whitney State Park that The Princess and I thought was funny. If you need a sign to tell you what a lake is, there's no hope for you:



Another Sign in Lake Whitney State Park that made us laugh. It looks like they're recommending that you drive into the lake at 10 MPH:



A sign outside Milford, TX:



The Court House in Waxahatchie, TX. Texas is loaded with beautiful old court houses like this:

[sandnsea]

1. Road ends in lake?

Odd, we always called those boat launches.

Beautiful courthouse. Looks like an interesting trip. Did you go on purpose?

[CO Liberal]

3. Yes

We have some very good friends who live in Hillsboro, which is about 30 miles north of Waco.

[sandnsea]

4. Friends, I see

So you didn't go just to see Texas. I couldn't imagine that. I've been once and once is enough. Traveling home from Biloxi to CA. Two days of Texas. Ugh.

Hope you guys had a good time.

[CO Liberal]

5. We Did

One of the longest days of driving we ever had was in 1994 when we were driving from Arizona back to NJ. There had been a bad ice storm in Tennessee, and we didn't want to drive back on I-40. The folks at the AAA office in Amarillo re-routed us to Dallas along US-287, where we could pick up I-20. The folks at AAA warned us that 287 went through every little cow town, and the cops strictly enforced the speed limits. So we spent that entire day going between 55 (between towns) and 35 (in towns).

They've since re-build US-287, so it bypasses many of those towns. But you still have to watch your speed.

[sandnsea]

6. I think that's the road

I made the trip in 1976, in July, 7 months pregnant with no air. And our friends two kids who we were taking to their grandparents. I think that must be the road we took, Shreveport to Dallas up the panhandle to catch I-40. We got stuck on the circular freeway in Dallas and missed our exit and had to go back around again. Oh, it was a joyful trip. Someday I'll tell you about the cockroaches that stowed away in our car and came out in the 110 degree Barstow heat. :)

[sakabatou]

2. LOL