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Originally Posted by Tom Wesenberg
The winner can buy me the gas and I will deliver it. 
This winter I drove across the middle of Texas from east to west, and find it's a beautiful state. The next civil war I'm joining up with Texas. |
Tom, glad you enjoyed the visit - actually those of us down south refer to it as the "War Between the States". We'll keep your comment in mind and should someone up your way win the engine let them contact you to see if they'll spring for the petrol.
You didn't say how long it took you to drive across - funny story: many years ago I was working in Dallas and we had a new employee who had just transferred in from Philadelphia. The first week he was there I caught him looking at a map and asked what he was doing. He replied, "I'm new to Texas and think I'll drive out to El Paso this weekend and do some exploring." When I told him he needed to pack a couple of lunches since it was 635 miles one way and would take 9 hours of driving each way he nixed the idea. Even though Alaska can now claim the "biggest" state, lots of people forget how big Texas is - Texarkana, TX is closer to Chicago than it is to El Paso, TX. It's 813 miles from Texarkana to El Paso and 794 miles from Texarkana to Chicago. It's 900 miles from the southern tip at Brownsville to Texline, TX just northwest of Amarillo. Nice drive nonstop if your have 14 hours to kill. We all know that if the ice melted in Alaska we would still be biggest!
Thanks,
Fred