The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, the real sub-eatha guide, not the book by Douglas Adams, begins as follows: “url=http://hitchhikersguidequotes.tumblr.com/post/13945214509/space-is-big-really-big-you-just-wont-believeSpace is big. Really Big. You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mindbogglingly big it is!” Clearly, whoever wrote that part never visited Texas. I spent hours in my car today, across a distance that in the Northeast would involve at least six states. Not only did I spend the entire drive in Texas, I didn’t even cross half the state! West Texas Most of it was as empty, and mind numbing, as the last few days. This part of Texas sits on the Edwards Plateau, which by itself is
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