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Interesting Sights?
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Tue Aug 31, 2010 8:46 amby couch 'em
Headed out of the crack of the lubbottock of Texas Monday morning. I plan on taking the 114 route home. Any historical, culinary, or otherwise interesting sights or sites on that road? I'd love to stop at a great house of meat (NTTAWWT) since my mostly vegitarian wife will be at home.
Re: Interesting Sights?
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Tue Aug 31, 2010 10:13 amby EastStang
Lots of mesquite trees and dead armadillos.
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Tue Aug 31, 2010 10:23 amby RGV Pony
there are a few places I'd recommend on 380. Never done the 114 route.
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Tue Aug 31, 2010 10:42 amby peruna81
couch 'em-
if you get into Seymour TX, the Rock Inn Cafe used to have excellent Chicken Fried Steak...been some time since I was through there, but I remember it with some delight, and the need to refuel/other-things around then anyway...
skunks...count 'em from Tarrant County west...averaged out to about 1 every 3 miles IIRC the last fall I headed to Lubbock.
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Tue Aug 31, 2010 11:45 amby that's great raplh
Pack a lunch
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Tue Aug 31, 2010 12:01 pmby Insane_Pony_Posse
It would have been cool if you could have mounted a dash-cam in your vehicle and had streaming video all the way to Lubbock for that exciting drive for all of us sitting around in nursing homes with nuttin to do all day!
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Tue Aug 31, 2010 12:12 pmby Peruna_Ate_My_Rolex
Insane_Pony_Posse wrote:It would have been cool if you could have mounted a dash-cam in your vehicle and had streaming video all the way to Lubbock for that exciting drive for all of us sitting around in nursing homes with nuttin to do all day!
Don't worry, I'll send Oscar to visit you this weekend.
Re: Interesting Sights?
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Tue Aug 31, 2010 12:52 pmby 03Mustang
If it's anything like 2006 there are plenty of cops to wave to along the way. All it took was going 10 over in a 70 for one to stop me for a little chat.
Re: Interesting Sights?
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Tue Aug 31, 2010 1:01 pmby mrydel
If I recall from my elementary school days, the Butts family is from Seymour.
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Tue Aug 31, 2010 1:04 pmby Insane_Pony_Posse
Peruna_Ate_My_Rolex wrote:Don't worry, I'll send Oscar to visit you this weekend.
Yeah I bet you're an expert in Oscar Mayer!
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Tue Aug 31, 2010 2:00 pmby EastStang
mrydel wrote:If I recall from my elementary school days, the Butts family is from Seymour.
And they live under the bleachers.
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Tue Aug 31, 2010 4:38 pmby Rayburn
if you get into Seymour TX, the Rock Inn Cafe used to have excellent Chicken Fried Steak...been some time since I was through there, but I remember it with some delight, and the need to refuel/other-things around then anyway.
Yes. I have been to the Rock Inn Cafe many times, though not in the last 15 years. Do stop in at Seymour and shout hey to the old Mustang Lynn Thornhill, whose family still has a business on main street.
Re: Interesting Sights?
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Tue Aug 31, 2010 5:17 pmby BUS
Read up on the 7777 (four 7's Ranch)
You drive through it for a long time.
Yes, it was won in a poker game with 4x7's.
Re: Interesting Sights?
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Tue Aug 31, 2010 5:21 pmby peruna81
thank you sir, for the correction...
my last journey on that road caused me to have delusions of numbers (7 to 6)
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Tue Aug 31, 2010 9:47 pmby lobocameraman
meat - Dairy Land about 2 blocks southeast of the square in Jacksboro (on your left)
history - Olney home of the flying tractor and annual one arm dove hunt