On the road to Houston, TX

We have left Denver, CO and will be stopping in North Platt, NB to deliver a beverage load.  It is amazing to know that one place can make several different brands of something and still be the same thing.  I guess when you go to the local supermarket, buying the store brand is almost the same as buying a name brand.  Just different packaging.

As you can see the landscape of Nebraska and Oklahoma are just as flat as can be.  I tell my husband, Tom, that I now know how Columbus felt when he was sailing the ocean blue, for you can see the curviture of the earth.

Even on the back roads you can find the most interesting signs.  This sign caught my eye, but it doesn't give much information as to why.  I guess that is the reason there is a phone number to call.  I just wonder how many do call.  This is not my idea of where to retire, for the weather is full of tornadoes, ice storms, and humidity.

Mile after mile you see nothing but farm land and cows.  The windmills are dotting the landscape and just about always with a few cow's near by.

As we were traveling through Dallas, the traffic became almost bumper to bumper.  This is one example of an 18 wheeler that shouldn't be doing what he is doing, TAIL GATING.  But then again you have the next one...

a four wheeler TAIL GATING a truck.  Now what is so bad about this, you ask.  See how close the car is to the back.  Well if the trailer blew a tire there on the back it could cause the mud flap to break off and fly into the vehicle behind it.  Right into the windshield and doing some serious injury to whoever is driving.  People never think of things like this, but it does happen, and more often than you would think.  So, next time you are behind one of these big rigs, stay a little bit further back than you normaly would just to be on the safe side.
  Tomorrow we will be in Houston, TX and so I will sign off for now and see you on the otherside.