Misfitmorgan's Journal - That Summer Dust

misfitmorgan said:

Not sure summer would be too too horrible...we get temps almost to 100F here and 200% humidity......is it a dry heat?

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Sounds like home to me! Make a side trip, stay a day or two and I'll round up @Devonviolet and @Latestarter , we'll have a great visit and eat a lot!

We shall see when the time gets closer but i would like that a lot!

Now I was hopin' (spectin') southern horsepitality would kick in and DevonV and I would get honorable mention in all these here plans! Bay is a great and generous hostess! I know Shtuff happens, but it sure would be great if you find your way down here. I have a couple spare rooms as well, so really don't expect you'll be lacking for a free place to put your head down. Bout 300 or so miles from Austin to Mount Pleasant and Bay is an hour south west of me. Would love the opportunity to meet you folks. As for shooting wild hogs, yeah, doubt you're lacking for pork but more fun when they run.

Can't speak for any of the other places but for no bigger than it is, Little Rock has some of the worst traffic and major interchanges in North America.

I-30 looks good on a map, but with Memphis and Dallas being major freight hubs, I30 between Texarkana and Little Rock is a mass of 18 wheelers, with 2 trains of thought about driving it..in either direction.
1. Go in the daytime so you can at least get a glimpse of the white tail that wrecks the front end of you car.

2. Drive @ night following right behind an 18 wheeler at 80mph. Big bumper, 4 sets of axles and 80,000 lbs soften Bambi up a good bit before your Michelins pass over the bloody remains.
Made that Little Rock drive lots of times in the last 2 1/2 years and glad I don't have to do it any more.

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Latestarter said:

Now I was hopin' (spectin') southern horsepitality would kick in and DevonV and I would get honorable mention in all these here plans! Bay is a great and generous hostess! I know Shtuff happens, but it sure would be great if you find your way down here. I have a couple spare rooms as well, so really don't expect you'll be lacking for a free place to put your head down. Bout 300 or so miles from Austin to Mount Pleasant and Bay is an hour south west of me. Would love the opportunity to meet you folks. As for shooting wild hogs, yeah, doubt you're lacking for pork but more fun when they run.

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Of course you would be brought up LS....who else is going to bring the ribeyes?? I'm joking of course. It would be a pleasure to meet you as well. I'm hoping for a spring trip but with planting and finances its probly going to be more summer or fall.

greybeard said:

Can't speak for any of the other places but for no bigger than it is, Little Rock has some of the worst traffic and major interchanges in North America.

I-30 looks good on a map, but with Memphis and Dallas being major freight hubs, I30 between Texarkana and Little Rock is a mass of 18 wheelers, with 2 trains of thought about driving it..in either direction.
1. Go in the daytime so you can at least get a glimpse of the white tail that wrecks the front end of you car.

2. Drive @ night following right behind an 18 wheeler at 80mph. Big bumper, 4 sets of axles and 80,000 lbs soften Bambi up a good bit before your Michelins pass over the bloody remains.
Made that Little Rock drive lots of times in the last 2 1/2 years and glad I don't have to do it any more.

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DH was a truck driver in his "former life" as he calls it and hit the million mile mark behind a semi steering wheel before he was 25yrs old so i will tell him but he will probly just say....i know, why are you telling me this? Just kinda how he is, very straight forward. The route isnt set in stone but he has no problem driving at any speed in any weather...which can be nice or terrifying He tells me stories about driving like trying to out run a cali state boy on highway 1...doing 115mph in a semi truck with a load on. I've been on highway 1 i cant believe he survived. The cali cop caught him and passed him, then radioed back from him to slow down.

misfitmorgan said:

I'm not THAT young

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Perhaps not but you are a fair bit younger than many of us

115 MPH on the PCH??? That is NUTS!

I'm a good cook too! We'd feed y'all good!

Bruce said:

Perhaps not but you are a fair bit younger than many of us

115 MPH on the PCH??? That is NUTS!

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And how do you know how old I am?

Baymule said:

I'm a good cook too! We'd feed y'all good!

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I have no doubt at all about your cooking skills Bay!

misfitmorgan said:

And how do you know how old I am?

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Are you as old as Jack Benny (was for a LONG time)?

No i dont think any of us is almost 124yrs old