Those words come from an old cowboy song recorded by Asleep at the Wheel some years ago and they are ever so true, you can see miles and miles of Texas on the trip to my Mom's. Then there will be a curve. Then more miles. Then a curve and a hill, of all things. Then there are more and more miles, but I won't bore you with more of those. But eventually, roughly 15 miles from Ranger you will come to Thurber Hill. Named for the small town of Thurber where they used to make red bricks for everything from buildings to paving the streets of Ranger. And the trucks in front of you, behind you and coming the other way are another example of what you will see a lot of on the trip. Going up Thurber Hill doesn't look all that big a deal, but it is a 6% grade which means all those big trucks will be steadily slowing down and barely moving by the time they reach the top. And you really hope all the drivers are courteous enough to make the climb in the righthand lane, leaving the left hand open for faster vehicles. After spending the day with Mom, we repeat the journey, the only different view is the one at the top of Thurber Hill. And this time you certainly hope those big trucks have good brakes!!
Wow, look at all that flatness! Remind me to contrast these photos with the hills and curvy roads in our vicinity.
I guess it can be easy (and dangerous) to switch off mentally while driving on such straight and long roads. Have you seen many accidents on these roads Toni?
Droopy, now you know why I love pictures of mountains so much. The trip south of us to Randy's folks is more picturesque, they have some rolling hills and bigger trees. Frank, surprisingly there haven't been very many accidents out there that I know of. Not as many as in the heavy city traffic actually.
We have very few flat roads here but in the mid-west there were plenty of them. There are quite a few 6% grades close to us. Especially when we go to Phoenix or up to Flagstaff. Sometimes I miss the flat. I'm not fond of curvy up and down driving. dooley
flat Hey, folks, that ain't flat. You wanna see flat, look at where I live! Link to song: http://lyricsplayground.com/alpha/songs ... exas.shtml Link to really flat part of Texas: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Llano_Estacado
Holy Moly, you got the same kinds of hills as Denmark! (nudging droopy and snickering,,,they call them hills,,lol) Actually the picture at the top of the hill *cough* shows the really beautiful landscape below. Very rugged beauty. Thank you for the trip. (did you tell mom hello from all of us?)
Oh, hahahaha, it isn't nice to mock the altitudenaly impaired. Oh, yes I told Mom you all said hello and she says Hi. She has absolutely no concept of what the internet is or how it works but thinks it is really nice to find friends all over the world. Me too
Nice images, Toni. It's always interesting to see the areas where others live. That flatness reminds me a little of here, if it weren't for the hills. We live on what was once the bottom of the sea, so it's pretty flat here too. Thanks for posting these fotos, hope you had a good time visiting.
