I am not mad at anyone

[Dave McClung]

I am not mad at anyone. The reason I have not posted often in the past few days is because Linda and I have been on the road part of the time and in Lamesa, Tx part of the time. My internet connection in Lamesa is the Public Library, so I mostly do email.

One can really cover the miles quickly in Texas. The speed limit between El Paso and Odesa is 80 miles per hour. I like Texas!!

Part of the time, we have been flying. I used to enjoy flying. All the fun has been squeezed out of flying. I think Linda and I are going to drive more this year. It is a lot more fun.

I will be back when I get an internet connection.

[DA Weaver]

Hurry back before someone gets mad at you for not posting enough!!!

[Mike Wooldridge]

Ain't West Texas great! :q)

http://www.djwriter.com/cycling/c2c/photos/Tex/Windmill2.jpg

[Hans Deventer]

I used to enjoy flying. All the fun has been squeezed out of flying.

True. But sometimes, there is little alternative, unless you really have lots of time in your hand. Not even sure if one can still book a ship that brings you to the USA these days.

[Hal Paul]

One can really cover the miles quickly in Texas. The speed limit between El Paso and Odesa is 80 miles per hour. I like Texas!!

If you were driving 80 you were probably getting passed. :eek:

[Cindi Hammons]

Hal,

He didn't say he was driving 80 mph...he said the speed limit was 80 mph!:eek: Draw your own conclusions! :laughing

[John Kennedy]

"The sun has ris, the sun has set,
and here we is in Texas yet!"

[Bob Wright]

It's pretty bad when a guy from West Texas has to learn the speed limit from a guy who lives in Washington! I didn't realize that they had raised the speed limit there. I do know that is a long lonely drive from El Paso to Odessa. It would be nice if they would have just kept the 80 mph until Fort Worth.

[Andrea Larabee]

"One can really cover the miles quickly in Texas. The speed limit between El Paso and Odesa is 80 miles per hour. I like Texas!!"

Sounds like a great place to test and see if my Maserati really does 185! Just kidding. I don't own a Maserati. It would be fun to take a car out on that open road and really put some pressure on that gas pedal. I love Texas, too. Did I just say that?

[Hal Paul]

It's pretty bad when a guy from West Texas has to learn the speed limit from a guy who lives in Washington! I didn't realize that they had raised the speed limit there. I do know that is a long lonely drive from El Paso to Odessa. It would be nice if they would have just kept the 80 mph until Fort Worth.

They changed the speed limit when I was living in San Antonio. In addition to I-20 going up to Odessa, I-10 has an 80mph speed limit between El Paso and Kerrville. Here's an article (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,197072,00.html)about the speed limit change.

[Gina Stevenson]

Hal,

He didn't say he was driving 80 mph...he said the speed limit was 80 mph!:eek: Draw your own conclusions! :laughing

Well, he did say he likes to fly, didn't he!? HA! :laughing

[I don't; a blow-out at 75 cured me!]

[Andrea Larabee]

Well, he did say he likes to fly, didn't he!? HA! :laughing

[I don't; a blow-out at 75 cured me!]


Saw a bumper sticker once that said, "I don't drive fast, I just fly low" :basic05

[Gina Stevenson]

Saw a bumper sticker once that said, "I don't drive fast, I just fly low" :basic05

'Sounds like a familiar one; think I've seen that one, too, Andrea. :cool:

[Kevin Rector]

Part of the time, we have been flying. I used to enjoy flying. All the fun has been squeezed out of flying. I think Linda and I are going to drive more this year. It is a lot more fun.

Maybe you should buy yourself a plane, that way flying would be fun again. Or at least I think it would. If you got something like a Cessna 172 then maybe I'd come visit and "borrow" it to get my pilot's license. ;)

But you'd probably want a nice two engine plane that can be pressurized which could really get you around.

[Billie Goodson]

[FONT=Comic Sans MS][SIZE=3]I am not mad at anyone.

Want to be? :p

[Dave McClung]

Maybe you should buy yourself a plane, that way flying would be fun again. Or at least I think it would. If you got something like a Cessna 172 then maybe I'd come visit and "borrow" it to get my pilot's license. ;)

But you'd probably want a nice two engine plane that can be pressurized which could really get you around.

After flying 250 combat missions in Vietnam, I don't find flying around the US in a small plane to be very exciting. Besides, that a small plane won't hold all of Linda's luggage.

[Dennis M. Scott]

When Linda reads that post, you'll find out which is worse: being mad, or being made AT.

[David Pettigrew]

Let me just say that after yesterday, when I sprinted (all 260 lbs of me) through the Salt Lake City airport from terminal C to terminal D with five minutes to spare for my connection flight, only to find out that the flight had been switched to terminal C, and sprinting all the way back, entering the plane winded and dripping with perspiration, I was really regretting that my two day, relaxing, go at my own pace road trip got canceled.

Oh, and I'm not mad at anybody either. That's a good feeling.

[Dave McClung]

When Linda reads that post, you'll find out which is worse: being mad, or being made AT.

I guess you were referring to my comment about Linda's luggage. She wouldn't be mad at that comment.

Linda is a very generous person. She rarely shops for herself, but loves to buy gifts for the grandchildren and the kids in her Sunday School Class. As we travel, she is constantly looking for bargains to buy for gifts. I wasn't joking about a private plane not holding sll the stuff she buys for gifts. It fills up our SUV.

[Anne and Dwayne Hood]

That saying "I don't drive fast, I fly low," reminds me of one of my uncles. He was bad to fly down low to houses of older ladies, that he knew, for the fun of it. They did not think it was fun.

My uncles fun did not alway set right with others. One of them put a firecracker under great Aunt Linnie's chair. She jumped up saying, "oh, Lordy, Lordy," and ran out and sat on the front steps. He had a firecracker timed there, and she ran down the street crying "Oh, Lordy, Lordy." That is just a couple of things they did, when I wa a kid, and they were still sort of young.

I never got in the plane with Uncle Hugh, or on his yacht, but I think I rode on the back of Uncle Clement's Harley once. They were characters--but fun.
I flew in a helicopter once, and have toured planes on an airbase.