Don't Mess With Texas

Right. So to add on to the first blog that we posted this morning, we have an updated account on our 10 hour drive through western Texas to San Antonio. For the most part it was pretty uneventful, so here's a quick run down of the main highlights:

1. About half of our hotel's inhabitants were vacationing from the state of Chihuahua, Mexico. This calmed my fears that not everyone from Ciudad Juarez was involved with Cartel business, and some were just normal people who work or vacation in El Paso. Regardless, why you would want to vacation in El Paso bewilders me. They had cool license plates too featuring Emiliano Zapata that I bet none of you have ever seen before.

2. Western Texas is prettttty boring. In a more positive light, it is not as boring as Kansas, not as dirty as Nevada. You can also drive really fast through it, and have to reallly screw up to get pulled over.

Thats right. Everything is big in Texas.

3. Cars in Texas come in 4 flavors of 'Murrican pickup truck: Ford, Chevy, GMC, Dodge. No exceptions. Bonus points for it being a white pickup, or having extra-sized wheels.

Seriously, Kansas was worse.

4. Lunch was Subway (again). Kelly discovered their buffalo chicken flat bread which became topic of conversation for the next hour or so.


5. There was this truck:

Just in case you need a fake pig...this guy has one.

 At about this point, Kelly and Tom had completed their portion of driving for the day, so they took a happy hour in the parking lot with some Budweiser tallboys bought from this gas station.

6. Upon arrival in to San Antonio, Eric's cousin, Jordan, took us to a really neat place to get fish tacos and fun Texas style burgers. We sat outside (yeah, I said it) and listened to live local music and chatted about our trip.

7. Jordan has a really cool Labradoodle, we're debating stealing him for the ride back to Delaware.

Tomorrow we're off to downtown San Antonio to watch a cattle drive. Apparently the rodeo starts next week, so this event is like the kick off. After that, there is promise of famous southwestern barbeque.