A Driving Texas Hill Country Loop

Friday afternoon Kim and I left for Rock springs Texas to look at a piece of ranch land. We headed down that long boring stretch of Interstate 10 to San Antonio. After a late compulsory lunch at the Oakridge Smokehouse in Schulenburg we settled in for the rest of the drive, Me at the wheel and Kim in the back asleep. (Nurses who work 12-hour shifts at night tend to want to sleep the next day.) I feel like I have driven the trip to San Antonio at least a hundred times and this one was no different.

What is that on the highway? It looks like……

In San Antonio, as we traveled along I-10 we saw the east bound traffic start to back up. As we drove past we saw the problem and then after we past, we smelled the problem. It seems that a tractor Trailer overturned and lost all their cargo on the highway. There cargo was none other than a big load of cow manure. After about 10 minutes of Cow manure jokes we turned off on highway 90 to Uvalde and the Winter Gardens area of the state. The drive passes through a combination of rolling farm land and south Texas brush country. You can tell that a lot of corn is being grown for fuel ethanol. Read more

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