5 Things We Know On A Sunday
- The stretch of road from Logan, New Mexico to Mosquero may be the roughest paved road in America for miles at a time. If there’s a rougher highway out there, I really don’t want to drive it. They don’t need a speed limit sign. You can only go as fast as the bumps will allow you to go. Dear New Mexico: Do us a favor and spend a little more money on roads in Eastern New Mexico. We are trying to bring you money that you obviously need. Make it easier for Texans to help out your floundering state!
- You come back from the store and your dogs will act like you just returned from Europe and they weren’t sure how they were gonna eat. You can be gone a week and when you get home your cats while look disappointed, as if they thought you’d bequeathed them the house and all things in it and we’re never going to bother them again.
- Top 3 Random 1980s MTV Bands. (This is what happens on a long drive when you listen to random music). No. 3. Chilliwack. A Canadian band not named Rush or Triumph. Had one good song. “My Girl, Gone So Long”. If you remember that, you’re our kinda MTV People. No. 2. Bow Wow Wow. An English pre-fab band that gave us “I Want Candy”. Post-punk sound. Lasted about 45 minutes. No. 1. Haircut 100. If you don’t know, you’re missing out on early 80s New Wave/Romantics/English sound. They wore cardigan sweaters and could actually sing. Love Plus One. Great song. They epitomized early MTV. Came on strong, went out fast. Check out these bands on YouTube if you’ve never heard of them. Pure MTV 1982!
- January is the toughest month of the year on the South Plains and West Texas. Not March with the wind or July with the heat. It’s January. You make it through January around here and you can handle any month. It gives you cold, wet, wind, blowing dust, freezing pipes and the occasional warm day that tricks you into thinking Spring is right around the corner. You wait forever for the sun to come up and then it goes down before you’ve finished the day. January, the promise of a new year, is also the month that makes you realize how much more Winter we’ve got to take. That said, January in West Texas is still a lot better than other months in other places, so we’ll take it. If it keeps a few Yankees and whatnot out of West Texas, then it’s worth it. Right.
- How did we ever drive without computerized dashboards showing us everything about our trip? From gas milage to the nearest clean bathroom… I’ve got more information on my dashboard than I know what to do with. The first time I drove around Dallas I had a big book of MapsCo. It’s amazing I got anywhere at all and didn’t wreck trying to read that thing on Central or LBJ. I kept a big Rand-McNally map book for the entire country in my truck for years. Just in case I wandered up to New Hampshire, I was set. That said, I’m glad for the technology. Now, my wife can’t accuse me of not being able to read a map! I’ve got a Navigator to blame for anything and everything. Takes a lot of pressure off the driver. Now if I could just figure out how to operate the whole thing, we’d be good! The joys of long-distance drives!
Hyatt
