Monday, January 9, 2012

Texas Post #5: 2 Return Trips

January 3:
10:26 Discovered we'd lost the notebook in which we'd been keeping the trip log
10:30 I 35 north to Austin
11:24 Gouged for H2O by some metrosexual Latino thug
11:41 Fake longhorns
12:33 Sign for "Female Oil Wrestling" (I thought it would be a bad idea to stop so we kept going while we were getting turned around looking for a BK)
12:40 Bond style parking lot move
12:42 Found BK
1:22 Cross eyed kid spazzing out in the BK parking lot
1:27 Seat belt debacle & curb issue
1:57 Learned about Waco, TX while researching the Branch Davidians (I had thought they were named after David Koresh, but he in fact named himself after the group)
2:05 Learned about Heaven's Gate (& in turn, Alien Abduction Insurance!)
2:27 Geodesic Dome funeral parlour
2:30 Dee flicked us off
3:26 7/11 stop
3:32 Big dancing frogs
3:43 Saw the Starship Pegasus (a dilapidated flying saucer parked in Italy, TX)
3:56 Hippie geodesic dome church
4:12 City of Dallas w/ a dealership plate cluster
4:20 Sign for Sara's Secret
4:35 Incomprehensible sign about bass & flying saucers
4:37 Roy Huggin's lake
4:45 Lost the pen
4:46 broke out the 2nd string pen
5:02 Ninja grill w/ turtles in cowboy boots
5:39 Andre gave a trucker a taste of Dee's medicine (He gave him the bird... you know, the finger)
6:28 Dee: "I'd like to be unconscious"
7:00 Back in Clarksville w/o stopping @ the one historical marker that we actually wanted to see

January 4
1:33 On the road to Texarkansas
2:00 Coat confusion
2:27 I 30 East
2:45 Texarkansas
2:47 Arkansas State Line
3:05 Debated the Nashville option
3:18 Debated a nap
3:48 Saw a weird thing on a truck
3:49 "Honk if you're rowdy"
3:52 Former cars - current terrariums
4:55 City of Little Rock
4:50 More route debate
5:21 Box of crackers dumped
5:50 Miami Sound Machine interlude w/ gorillas
6:35 Mississippi Riv./Tenn state line/City of Memphis
8:00 Jackson, TN Waffle House
8:45 Days Inn after price debate & a little haggling

January 5
12:15 AM Posted about the trip to San Antonio
8:32 Casey Jones House & Museum
8:38 "The sun is uncool right now"
9:24 Passed a weird tree-picker-upper w/ police protection
9:37 Tenn. Riv/Kentucky Lake
9:45 Loretta Lynn's Country Kitchen Buffet & Store (w/ a light up bison)
10:12 Bucksnort, TN
10:29 Another in a long list of random dudes walking down the highway
10:49 First sighting of ice on roadcuts
10:50 BMW trickster dognoggled us regarding Hawaii
10:52 City of Nashville
10:57 Cumberland Riv.
11:47 Kentucky State Line
1:00 Eastern Time Zone
2:10 Woke up from nap
2:30 Mammoth Cave NP & Dinosaur World
2:47 City of Louisville
4:10 I 75 North
4:14 "Florence Y'All" & a bastard
4:23 Ohio Riv./Ohio State Line/City of Cincinnati
4:29 Traffic Jam
4:45 traffic jam ends
5:29 Awesome sunset
5:55 Simultaneous realization that Wapakenetta needs an "M"
5:58 School bus towing a car
6:11 Decided against mooning the Neil Armstrong Museum in order to save time
7:31 Michigan State Line
8:00 Home again home again jiggety jig

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