Texas is the reason...

Trip Start Mar 01, 2008
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Trip End Sep 2008


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Where I stayed
some cheap motel that smelled like Indian food
(Dallas hotels)

Flag of United States  , Texas,
Tuesday, March 11, 2008

Ray never wanted to go through Texas.  I wanted to see giant human size cacti.  Ray won this battle. There are no giant cactus's in Northern Texas, and this happened to be the only place in our 3,500+ miles of driving through 14 states that we got pulled over, ticketed, learned that Ray's license had been suspended in NY for not returning old plates on the car and I was forced to drive next to huge semi's when I have barely driven at all in the last 8 years since I've been living in NYC- I'm terrified of driving.

The only motel we could afford in the town we stopped in was run by a sweet, but toothless and rather smelly gentleman that spoke quite broken English who couldn't understand I was simply asking for the time when I called the desk in the morning when my cell said 10:30 and Ray's said 9:30, and checkout was 11, do we have to leave now or can we sleep for an hour?  We're from Eastern time zone, is Texas mountain, pacific, and maybe it's daylight savings day??

We decided to stop in Dallas to check out some thrift stores and get some lunch- well one thrift store had a cactus out front so that made me happy, but the stores were pretty spread out and at least two of the locations we mapquested didn't exist.  The restaurant we were recommended was only open for dinner, so our only option was the sports bar across the street- nothing wrong with sports bars- if you like sports, and rowdy frat guys doing shots at 3 in the afternoon, just not really my thing.

We did drive through some cool old small towns though, and saw lots of cows, but we weren't too sad to get out of that state.
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