Been through HV yet? I can stand on the 35 bridge before the lake and give ya the bird as you go by....

Yep, here also, grandson and daughter both just getting over it. Flu shot seems to still be working for me … knock on wood

Also a Hilton fan. Vacations only now.

Yep. Doc says Texas s getting hit pretty hard. Hunker down and keep yer mitts clean.

mid 60's to mid 70's ......11 1/2 years of putting 50,000 business miles on my car in Miss. La.. and Ark.....in mid 60's,my per diem was $1.00,$1.00 and $2.50 for meals and you actually could eat for that.....motels were $6.95 to $11.95......

I just spent an hour and 33 minutes driving from Arlington to Joshua. I hate people. So many idiots on their phones not paying attention, swerving into other lanes, not going when the light is green, slamming their brakes for no apparent reason, driving 35 in a 70, etc. Geez, just put the dang thing down and DRIVE!

my ops manager tried his best to get me to go to Hope, Arkansas today...we parted ways after the conversation about it last night..

6 to 16 hours a day and hardly leave the county.

I flew all over the country in the 80s and 90s. In the mid 90s most trips were to northern AL. I did not mind those flights too much. Flying into Birmingham and Huntsville was not bad compared to O'Hare, Portland, southern CA. I was working on turning around a plant in AL. I stayed on the lake in Guntersville. I lived in Roankoe at the time so short drive to DFW. Frequency was biggest issue for me. Out Monday and return on Friday for months at a time. I would not want to be flying like that these days.

My wife took a nice paying job around Dallas Market Hall in mid90s. First day took her 3.5 hours to get home (normally 45’) due to wreck on I30. She retired a week later

People are like fire ants.

Huh?
Hear me out.
What does a fire ant know? All they know is the mound they share with a billion other ants, and the well worn trails they never wander from. Three feet away is unmolested, uncrowded territory, but they'll never know.

If I lived in a mound, I wouldn't want to drive either. Freaking ants are nuts.

But then you'd never see things you didn't know existed. Like Roswell to Santa Fe.

I drive from N Texas to Central Florida and back 2 times a year. I usually stop at a truck stop for about a 2 or 3 hour nap each way. I have a Jon boat/motor at my daughters so I can go fishing while I'm there so want my truck. I hate flying more than driving 24 hours straight.

I drive a bunch usually going to rodeos to watch Riley. I usually take the backroads. I know it might take me little longer but I've seen some pretty cool stuff.

When I started out in the Glass and Mirror business in Dallas in the 70's besides a Mapsco I ended up hand drawing a map.
A big circle was 635, a vertical line in the middle was Hillcrest Ave and the horizontal line in the middle was Northwest Hwy. I then made shortcut notes in each quarter section for instance to know where areas like Richardson/Garland was at. For a few years I would take my Mapsco and make a small dot at jobsites for quick reference and just to see what areas had more jobs.