Texas Is A Big Place

They have changed all of that just before you arrived...……...they heard how you drove in SC and wanted to be prepared.
No telling what it cost them to allow you to move there.
 
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.....iirc from the eastern tip to the western tip was around a 10 hour drive. You get it all.....the east.....you have the big cities and low wetlands......towards the west you get mountains and desert. If you see the sign...last gas station for xxx miles......FILL UP THERE!
 
From what I’ve seen, the sign makes no difference. Texans know one speed and its fast or off. A lot of them are genuine nascar racers too by the looks of there cars. 99% of the cars have missing parts; fenders, bumpers etc.
The funny thing is, no body fixes anything. It will be held on with duct tape and I have even seen fenders screwed back on with sheetrock screws.
 
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BowWow said:
.....iirc from the eastern tip to the western tip was around a 10 hour drive. You get it all.....the east.....you have the big cities and low wetlands......towards the west you get mountains and desert. If you see the sign...last gas station for xxx miles......FILL UP THERE!
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Hell, Dallas to El Paso takes that long.
 
Some places down there maybe not Texas(it’s been a long time, I can’t remember), have day and night time speed limits that fluctuate 10mph
 
rantingredneck said:
I haven't been in about 28 years but I remember crossing into TX from LA on my way to Houston and seeing a sign that said San Antonio was 800 something miles.

It's a big freaking state...
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Maybe El Paso. Hate to be the “aktually guy” but there isn’t anywhere in LA you could cross into TX where San Antone would be much more than 450 away at the most.
 
Derek8404 said:
Maybe El Paso. Hate to be the “aktually guy” but there isn’t anywhere in LA you could cross into TX where San Antone would be much more than 450 away at the most.
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Probably was El Paso. It was a LONG time ago lol.
 
El Paso, Texas is closer to Los Angeles, CA than it is to Beaumont, Texas.
 
N.C. line on 40, though Tennessee then Arkansas to Texarkana is the same from Texarkana to San Antonio...... the middle of Texas.
 
Saw the biggest moon I have ever seen in my life driving through Texas. Was insanely huge.
 
Combat Diver said:
I-10 across Texas is 879 miles. Grow up in that state. Immediate family still around San Antonio.

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I think I remember seeing a sign at the LA/TX stae line that said El Paso 879 miles.
 
I drove across Tejas west-to-east in 1970 as part of a cross-country PCS. The things I remember most about the state are:

- getting lost on a multi-tiered highway interchange in Dallas, and
- spending the night in a very small town inhabited primarily by very distant paternal relatives of whom no one in my family had any knowledge.

Darndest things!

(I really liked Tejas back then - I hope you do too, @Geezer !)
 
Bull Durham said:
If you go to “Th’ Chicken”, you gotta try the Freddie Burger!
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Played a lot of pool and foosball at the Chicken and Dudley's back in the day (when the drinking age was still 18+ and a man could drive with a cold one in hand).

~520 miles as the crow flies between 1CAV (Fort Hood) and 1AD (Fort Bliss).
 
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