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UK Compared to the Size of the US
I found this site comparing the UK to the US just now, and the map was quite interesting. (I have no idea if the statistics are true or not) I grabbed a screenshot of the UK centered on Texas, to give you a idea of how big it is.
So. You see Fort Worth there? That's where I live. See Bryan, down south and a little east? That's where my mom lives, a 3 to 3.5 hour drive (depending on traffic). See Houston, even father southeast? That's where![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
myrialux's job is - although he telecommutes, he still has to go down there periodically. About 4 hours-ish.
San Antonio is where I was to university, about 3.5 hours from Bryan. Victoria, where my grandparents live, is about 3 hours southwest of Bryan.
Nuevo Laredo, on the border, is where my group of friends used to go once a year, rent a hotel room on the US side, and go across the border to a bar a block or two away from the border, then stagger back late at night. :) We do it no more because of the drug-gang violence and a possible serial killer in the area (reputed to be working there before the drug violence started, but it might just be more drug-gang violence). And yes, we'd drive there from Dallas/Fort Worth.
And people wonder why I'm willing to spend all sorts of time on trains traveling around the UK. Where I'm from, it's a minimum of 3 hours to go anywhere and you have to drive yourself! It's sheer luxury to sit in a seat and let someone else do the driving while you get to watch unfamiliar scenery go by. So it's not on time? Who cares! It's a vacation!
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So. You see Fort Worth there? That's where I live. See Bryan, down south and a little east? That's where my mom lives, a 3 to 3.5 hour drive (depending on traffic). See Houston, even father southeast? That's where
myrialux's job is - although he telecommutes, he still has to go down there periodically. About 4 hours-ish.San Antonio is where I was to university, about 3.5 hours from Bryan. Victoria, where my grandparents live, is about 3 hours southwest of Bryan.
Nuevo Laredo, on the border, is where my group of friends used to go once a year, rent a hotel room on the US side, and go across the border to a bar a block or two away from the border, then stagger back late at night. :) We do it no more because of the drug-gang violence and a possible serial killer in the area (reputed to be working there before the drug violence started, but it might just be more drug-gang violence). And yes, we'd drive there from Dallas/Fort Worth.
And people wonder why I'm willing to spend all sorts of time on trains traveling around the UK. Where I'm from, it's a minimum of 3 hours to go anywhere and you have to drive yourself! It's sheer luxury to sit in a seat and let someone else do the driving while you get to watch unfamiliar scenery go by. So it's not on time? Who cares! It's a vacation!
:)
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You should hop over to Bavaria and visit me - it's not that far compared to the US distances either ^^.
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Maybe next trip! I do want to visit more of Europe (and Japan, and...).
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I've so far hosted a US couple (the husband of whom I had known for years in my one and only long-time mmorpg and on a fansite dedicated game) and an English online friend and that turned out fine (the English friend even came over twice) - with the couple I didn't really like the wife (I didn't know her at all either, they were freshly married) and I thought my online friend could have done much better (also she reminded me of myself at my most egoistic, heh) - but you I've now read and conversed with for some years (and gotten info on myrialux ^^), so I'd expect it to work better.
Are we there yet?
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If you take the Highway 6/I-35 route (i.e., if you're going to Fort Worth instead of Dallas), the place to stop is the Czech Stop (http://www.czechstop.net/home.php) in West, north of Hillsboro, for kolaches and other baked goods.
* I never remember the exact way to get to 45 because I always did the Highway 6/I-35 thing through Waco.
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KOLACHES!
I <3 West. We made excuses to stop there like 4 times, the one time we were in Waco.
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I want to try this legendary jerky of which you speak...but I doubt I'll be going through there again.
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Or, barring that, tell me what you'd like to try (check the website for what they've got) and when Toby drives by there on his way home tomorrow, I'll get him to pick up some extra I can mail to you. :D
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Sometimes I r dumb XD
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That being said there's some train routes, mostly in the Southwest or in the Northeast of the country, that you can actually use to get places or that are scenic journeys in and of themselves, but overall, train travel pretty much sucks ass here.
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And yeah, those darned freight trains get priority on the tracks, so even a route that doesn't involve buses will run late and slow ...
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B. S.!!!!!!!!!!
(Technically, Japanese companies grant an average of more vacation time than US companies do, but nobody TAKES it!)
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*_*
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The Texas leg is almost exactly one-third of the entire journey I-10 makes across the U.S. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_10)
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Our British relatives who have been over here to see the sights do have a little trouble grasping the sheer distances involved! No, we can't quite do Yosemite and the Golden Gate Bridge on the same day...
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