Holy cows, them truck drivers scare the hell out me last night. Ya see, I were sit'n here enjoy'n watch'n all them experienced truckers back'n into spaces I wouldn't even think bout back'n into. Them guys are good. Then here come this probly a rookie back'n that great big trailer right at "Sally da house". I jumps up, runs to the dashboard an' start blow'n the horn and flash'n the lights. Boy howdy....that was close. I was think'n how I gonna explain this to the insurance company.
Got up early this morning....think'n it was late. Just been sit'n round do'n nuttin....my favorite past time ya know. Don't rekon I'll be go'n very far today since I'm already ahead of schedule. I done drive 553 mile in 2 days what is a bit over what I normally drive. But that's 'cause of that Grrrrr, grrrrrr, grrrr, cuss cusss cusss rest area what was closed. I'm think'n maybe bout a hunnert fifty miles today, what will put me 30 some odd miles from one my favorite Texas bass fish'n lakes. Lake Tawakoni. Will I take the time to go catch me up a big ol' bass fish? I doubt it. But it would be a fun thing to do.
Gonna have to find me a Walmart pretty darn quick. Ain't got nuttin to eat....no donuts. Sadie Mae is bout out of dog food. I need another bottle of aspirin. And there's a Walmart just down the road a piece. How bout that?
Ok, this is all for now. Gotta get on the road. Updates later.
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Ok....I'm here. Where I don't know. All I know is I am at a rest area or a picnic area.....got it to be a picnic area since there ain't no place to pee an' there ain't no picnic tables. A picnic area should have picnic tables. What ya think?
I were so hungry I had to pull off somewheres and eat me up a sammich. Ya gotta love a couple thick slices of Span on white bread with mayo and mustard. Hot damn!!!
Now, let me tell ya, onest I cross that state line into Texas, everything change. Them highways in Looseanna was all bumpity bumpity for the last hunnert mile. In Texas it's like riding on a sheet of glass. And them trees are shorter so's ya can see what on the other side them. Mostly nuttin.
Oh yeah before I forget....when I hit that 5 mile marker in Looseanna, I laid on the horn so's in case John, what lives in Shreveport, overslept I would wake him up. He probly out catch'n fish though. Anyhows...."My God lady, I weren't blow'n no horn at you, I was blow'n it at John Marshal". That lady not only come flat unglued, she come unplugged......gums jist a flap'n, shak'n fingers at me....an' I'm think'n she done flip me off too. Damn crazy Cajuns!!! But...Cajuns is one my favorite people. Love their music.
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Ok, here I are sit'n in a great big ol' truck stop try'n to figger where I gonna go next. That Walmart store what I was gonna stop at ain't there. The old Billy Bob has a knack for sniff'n out Walmart stores, but his sniffer weren't worth a snuff this time. I look all over for that damn store. Finally give it up after I done burn a couple gallon of gas. The only person I knows in the whole state of Texas what would direct me to the Walmart in Canton, would be Bob from Athens. And he's tak'n a nap.
On down the road a piece bout a hunnert mile is another rest area, just past Ft. Worth/Dallas area. Do I want to travel another hunnert miles today? Well hell no.....but it's hot and noisy here in this old T/A truck stop. Two more hours on the road would do me in for sure.
I gotta get the yak wet on Elephant Butte Pond before it becomes EB Mudhole. We waitin on ya.
ReplyDeleteYa better leard to operate that thing before we get to Falcon Lake catch'n up big ol' 14 pounds bass. Oh, did I forget to mention Del Rio????
DeleteThere's always Inks Lake too ya know.
DeleteGlad you're smelling the roses. Always hated to travel in a hurry.
ReplyDeleteThere ain't no damn roses. Only trees. The faster ya go the more ya miss....that is if'n them trees ain't in the way.
DeleteWatch out for those Indians named Tawakoni. That looks like a nice lake to fish. All those little branches to explore and chase some hog bass out from under logs and stumps and such. Dang, I am getting itchy to go fish'n.
ReplyDeleteI ain't gonna listen to ya Dizzy. I'm bet'n ya done hocked all your fish poles and all the hooks ya got left is rusty. Ya gotta "git up an' go" instead of get'n itchy. There plenty room out here on the road just for you.
DeleteBet it feels good to be on the road again! Good luck on the fishing...when you get the chance!
ReplyDeleteJim, it's good to be back in Texas.
ReplyDeleteYep I-20 through Lousyanna is not fun. It knocked a few things around in the Castle on the way to Alabama. I-40 headed back west was a lot better but is out of your way.
ReplyDeleteBack when I was a kid, when they was making Lake Tawakoni, it was the best cat fish catching place in the state pretty much. I actually saw with my own two eyes one that weighed over a hundred pounds come out of the water. That was back when it was called Iron bridge dam. They damned up the Sabine river and in the river they was holes that were over fifty feet deep with monster cat fish in them.
ReplyDeleteI like eat'n cat fish Bob, but a hunnert pounds one, what ya think'n it would taste like. I rekon ya could make a couple pair of shoes out the skin from one them big'uns and throw the meat in a dumpster.
DeleteYou're gonna just drive a hunnert miles "just past Ft. Worth/Dallas area". You make it sound like a walk in the park to get past that area, but it's a gut-wrenching, bring-on-the-worst-language-you-can-think-of, lethal-driving area. Good luck! I'd drive a couple hunnert miles out of my way to avoid it.
ReplyDeleteLOL Gypsy. As I remember the last time I went this way, I was go'n a hunnert mile a hour. Weren't near as bad as you put it. But then I was on I-20 what is south of Ft. Worth/Dallas. But I am think'n bout chang'n my route....head on down to I-10 for a spell. Don't know yet, but I got options.
DeleteI was talking 'bout I-20! I guess it could be worse, like going straight thru. Glad you got options BB.
DeleteWalmart Supercenter
ReplyDelete603 E Highway 243
Canton, TX 75103
603 E Highway 243 Canton, TX 75103
you need to turn around and haed back to GA, you have my flipit.lol..
ReplyDeleteI also got a plate.....hee hee hee
DeleteSorry I missed your honk. I'd have caught just as many fish if I'd stayed home but it sure was good to be on the water. Them crappies will start biting when the water (and air) gets cooler.
ReplyDeleteWelcome back to Texas. Glad this time you also mentioned Del Rio :)
ReplyDeleteDel Rio??? Don't I always mention Del Rio?
DeletePerhaps you do but not as often as you mention Inks Lake and visiting Trouble!
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