Assorted thoughts that didn’t fit in the narrative, plus random pictures. (Photo galleries to come later. Much, much later.)
- Not even an Austin hotel (using Time Warner Cable) carries the Longhorn Network.
- Museums that close at 5 remain the most troublesome part of vacation scheduling.
- That Iowa State can beat Texas in anything ever shows that money can’t buy everything (but the facilities show it can come really close).
- Fortune cookie given out at the Texas game: “When everything is coming your way, you’re in the wrong lane.”
- Of course Austin isn’t in Austin County.
- The Battle of San Jacinto lasted 18 minutes. YOU WILL KNOW THIS.
- How much does it cost everyone involved to make me pay a $3 parking fee with a credit card?
- William Travis was 26 when he died at the Alamo. I hate finding out when historical people were younger than I am.
- Nearly all of Texas’ 2di shields on BGSs look like 3di-width.
- The overhead signs at I-35’s south end certainly imply that it ends at a business loop of itself.
- Since the route never comes back to I-35, it should be signed as a business spur!
- A hotel within walking distance of a major-city downtown can justify the cost. (Triple digits are still out for me, though.)
- WHO-AM is available in Houston at night.
- Bumper sticker at Kyle Field: “Keep College Station Normal.” Too late.
- The first radio play-by-play college football game in Texas was the Texas-Texas A&M game in 1920. Another piece of history falling by the wayside.
- The only state-name I-37 shield I saw was near the Alamodome in San Antonio.
- Clinched I-37, I-35 in Texas, I-410, I-610. Traveled some distance on US 57 and 181 for the first time.
- Although my raw total of visited counties in Texas (91) is now only second to Iowa, that doesn’t even get it in my top 20 states percentage-wise.
- I admit, Texas seems like a good place to spend the winter. I just wouldn’t want to have a daily commute in the cities.
Texas’ attention to US route signage is generally exemplary.
The Alamodome and the Alamo have zero aesthetic similarity. Pity.
Last dances in Aggieland