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10/14/17: Day 15: Crossing much of Texas on old highways and new Interstates, looping around Dallas and Fort Worth, and ending up in Greenville Texas.
Day 15: Crossing much of Texas on old highways and new Interstates, looping around Dallas and Fort Worth, and ending up in Greenville Texas.
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We made it up for a hearty breakfast by 7:30, not long before it ended. All the big guys were already out, except a couple who were having their dinner before turning in. We actually got on the road at 8.
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Today's entry into Texas had less impressive welcome signs. I guess US-62 is more of a side road.
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I appreciate fun roadside signs
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Just another shot down a long road in Texas
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Cotton and wind country. Also, a horse in the corral.
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The old and the new energy technology. We may see the end of the petroleum mosquitoes in my lifetime. Wind will always be there.
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New oource and old delivery systemBe glad that I share so few of the pictures I've taken of windmills.
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We needed coffee after a couple of hours on the road. Google said, not much farther. Snyder, TX. The modern building on the right appears to be the county courthouse.
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Times Square Coffee House in Snyder Texas. Very quiet at 11 a.m. on a Saturday. Featuring pastries (of which we did partake), and soft serve fozen yogurt (that we left alone).
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After we had a coffee break, I took a turn driving. This is just the cutest gas station ever. Or maybe a monument to gas stations past. We didn't stop because we had so many miles yet to make this day.
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We finally reached the I-20 and hit the first reast area. It had many interesting features. First, note the fun design. Some architect was allowed to play.
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Inside, they had several exhibits of road trip days gone by. Including from the wagon train days. But the guy who had restored the Model T over there was on duty, and gave me a guided tour of some of the intimate details of how we know this was an original line model, not one of the re-tooled ones that later proliferrated.Sure, I claim to be an introvert; anyone who knows me well can confirm that. But I do seem to have a way with collecting stories from strangers.
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Anyone can drive across Texas and post a picture of all those cute little megawatt windmills standing on a hill. This long boy, a single blade of a turbine, is the last of a convoy of ...How many?..Say it with me...Three!
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Hitting the western exurbs of Fort Worth, I spot a hard pill to swallow. Hope it's not a suppository 3:-)
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As we hit the tangled exurbs of the Dallas-Fort Worth metropolitan area late Saturday afternoon, Google advised us that the loop way around the area to the north would save about a half hour over driving the direct route.Fortunately, it let us know which lane to take when, as the spaghetti got intense.
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Express lanes with price tags? No idea what to do about those. Didn't seem to matter, though.
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Dipsy divey urban roads are a trip.
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President George Bush Turnpike? How much is this going to cost? Turned out, nothing. Maybe because of the weekend? No gates on our exit in Rowlett, and we never got anything in the mail.
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One of the original waypoints for this trip was to stop by and say "Hey" to an old online friend that I'd never before seen in person. We traveled home by way of Dallas to get to Rowlett, Texas.
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In this cul de sac in a far east Dallas exurb sits the house of Jim and Andrea. Jim has started decorating for Halloween. There will be much more set out in the next week. It does make his house easier to find.
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Dan, Jim and Karen, plus the dim flat screen reflection of Andrea
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Clearly Jim Razinha loves kids. Slow cooked.Jim and I met online about 7 years ago, fighting shoulder to shoulder on a blog run by Erich Vieth. Today we finally met in person
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We wave goodbye to the lawn ornaments and drive off into the east.
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We get to the Greenville Texas Super 8 by eight o'clock. It is a big room.
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The room even has this separate dining area. Quite posh for an old motel.
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The Greenville Super 8 is on US-69, and may be a sort of no-tell motel for semi's.
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