THANKS JEANIE! I enjoyed it very much.
When I was a kid my Dad moved us all over Texas while he was chasing the end of the rainbow. 12 years of public schools and 12 different schools. I lived in the same house from the time I was born through the first four days of Elementary School, then we did all the moving, then six months after I graduated High School my Mom and Dad built a house and have been there ever since.
In all this moving around Texas, I saw PLENTY of geographical or topographical shock. We lived in El Paso while I was in the sixth grade. My Mom called it "the jumping off place." I thought and still think that the desert has it's own beauty.
Lubbock is the flattest country I've ever seen, and with the most sand storms although they are not nearly so bad these days compared to the sixties.
Waco was really neat country with rich farm land but also some neat lakes and cliffs.
Killeen was a GI town, but in the mid fifties, it had a really neat small town atmosphere and was on the edge of the Texas Hill Country.
The Dallas area was the most blah of it all, but there are plenty of thngs to do in the area.
North East Texas along the Red River has more vegetation and taller trees (considerably more statistical average rainfall) than the other places, but it's flat and kind of dull.
I've been pretty much all over the state from the Guadalupe Mountains to the Gulf shores. Fort Davis (a beautiful place) is as close as I've been to the Big Bend Country. The video made me want to fly over it EXCEPT, what happens if the engine sputters?
. We do have trees here though, oaks, cedar of course, pines, and madrone.
