Texas my Texas!!! love every inch of it..... born, raised and lived in Texas all my life..... I have seen a lot of Texas but still have more to see....
John Steinbeck said it so well!
I "got here as soon as I could," having been raised in New Jersey. My first husband and I moved to California in 1971, and got a flat tire about 40 miles north of Waco at 11 o'clock at night. A couple of days later (we'd stayed with friends, our car was not that slow), we stopped for gas just on the West side of El Paso and were told our tires were separating. Good old Texas heat done them in. Back to El Paso for four new tires. Hubby always said he hated Texas after that experience.
Fast forward 21 years - I'm a widow living in California. Get a phone call from a guy I'd dated in Junior High, who now lives in . . . TEXAS. Not just Texas, but SOUTH TEXAS (as he told me, "It's not the end of the world, but you can see it from here!" (Thanks to the Navy, that's where he retired). He came to visit me a couple of weeks later on a Tuesday. He proposed that Friday.
Been here 16 years and loving it. I like to tell people he "rescued" me from California.
The heat may be a killer, but it has been 16 years since I have seen smog or a real traffic jam - even during "rush hour" the traffice on South Padre Island Drive in Corpus Christi is MOVING!
And the people are warm and courteous and helpful - everything here is just good for one's soul! Thank you for lettin me adopt-in!
Great story, Churchmouse302 -- thanks for sharing it. Sounds like you have a great Texas life going on there!
Great story of how you ended-up in Texas, ChurchMouse.
Texans are sort of like Costa Ricans in a lot of ways ... a friend of mine (who is very aware that I've been struggling to learn the language here) asked me how things where going with my Spanish ... "Are the locals helpful at all with your endeavors?"
I simply told him, "Surely they're helpful ... they just love to see a 'Gringo' who's trying to 'better-himself' ..."
It's the same thing I'd say about a "converted Texan's" efforts to 'fit-in' ... "We just love to see a 'Yankee' who's trying to 'better-themselves' ... " LOL
posted by t0mas
5 months ago
I'm proud to be a Texan, I was lucky, to be born, 10 miles west of where I now live, I was lucky to find my Texas hill, over looking the Red River Valley.
Churchmouse302,
your comment about your car not being that slow reminds me of a story from Hopkins County.
a local fellow (who was known to brag, unlike the rest of us wild Texicans!) was in the barbershop, telling everyone how big his farm was. finally someone said, "Well H, Fred, how many acres is it?"
Fred said, "I really don't know, but it takes me near three days to drive the outer fenceline".
the other fellow said, "I understand. i owned a Ford one time, too".
yours, Otter
Funny, texasnative - since the car we were driving was a Ford Pinto!
