Re: MidAmerica tour
Posted: 28 Nov 2023 08:36
It’s time for a new Texas trip, and this time we’re driving from Waco eastwards to Lufkin via Centerville.
Bobtailing out of Waco at full tilt as the sun rises.
Upgraded the light show a little.
Going off-piste to pick up the cargo from an oil derrick.
Wikipedia says the word ‘derrick’ originates from a type of gallows used by Thomas Derrick, a well-known executioner in Elizabethan times. Like them or loathe them, the English have given the world SO MUCH. Warms the cockles of me ‘eart, it does.
And here we bear witness to said derrick, except actually it doesn’t quite look like a typical derrick, does it? 'Pon my soul, poor Thomas is probably turning over in ‘is grave right now, to be sure.
Well, here we go, leaving that poor excuse for a derrick behind, carrying IBC containers (for the lamentably untutored: Intermediate Bulk Containers, or totes).
Looks like another shady Amish contract, but I’m not Dan and no delectable examples of the loading dock management’s hard-working wives’ cooking were provided. I had to make do with a stale baguette from a nearby gas station.
On our way to Centerville now.
My truck looks like an extremely butch and angry goth chick.
Starting to get misty – not good for touring.
Delightfully overgrown and be-slimed bridge. I expect the local libtards wanted to renovate it so that it doesn’t crash down onto someone’s vehicle in the near future but Abbot Said No. Alpha males don’t refurbish bridges. They let them fall on school buses, blame it on the Dems and then laugh about it with the other real men in Hooters.
Can’t have this, better find a place to take a break.
We found a place to stop. Some kind of fast food joint.
That did the trick – one helping of fast food and slow coffee later, and the fog was all but gone.
Getting low on gas, so that’s next.
Crossing the highway that stretches between Dallas to the north and Huntsville to the south (and below that Houston). Our final trip out of Waco will take us to Huntsville.
Ah, here’s Centerville.
An ancient traction engine which may just be the one that escaped from the zoo in Boise.
Rural living in Centerville. We’ll finish the trip to Lufkin next time.
Thanks for looking in! Krigl
Bobtailing out of Waco at full tilt as the sun rises.
Upgraded the light show a little.
Going off-piste to pick up the cargo from an oil derrick.
Wikipedia says the word ‘derrick’ originates from a type of gallows used by Thomas Derrick, a well-known executioner in Elizabethan times. Like them or loathe them, the English have given the world SO MUCH. Warms the cockles of me ‘eart, it does.
And here we bear witness to said derrick, except actually it doesn’t quite look like a typical derrick, does it? 'Pon my soul, poor Thomas is probably turning over in ‘is grave right now, to be sure.
Well, here we go, leaving that poor excuse for a derrick behind, carrying IBC containers (for the lamentably untutored: Intermediate Bulk Containers, or totes).
Looks like another shady Amish contract, but I’m not Dan and no delectable examples of the loading dock management’s hard-working wives’ cooking were provided. I had to make do with a stale baguette from a nearby gas station.
On our way to Centerville now.
My truck looks like an extremely butch and angry goth chick.
Starting to get misty – not good for touring.
Delightfully overgrown and be-slimed bridge. I expect the local libtards wanted to renovate it so that it doesn’t crash down onto someone’s vehicle in the near future but Abbot Said No. Alpha males don’t refurbish bridges. They let them fall on school buses, blame it on the Dems and then laugh about it with the other real men in Hooters.
Can’t have this, better find a place to take a break.
We found a place to stop. Some kind of fast food joint.
That did the trick – one helping of fast food and slow coffee later, and the fog was all but gone.
Getting low on gas, so that’s next.
Crossing the highway that stretches between Dallas to the north and Huntsville to the south (and below that Houston). Our final trip out of Waco will take us to Huntsville.
Ah, here’s Centerville.
An ancient traction engine which may just be the one that escaped from the zoo in Boise.
Rural living in Centerville. We’ll finish the trip to Lufkin next time.
Thanks for looking in! Krigl