DFW day trips and backroad destinations
Texas has a grand variety of historic county courthouses. Many of these historic county courthouses exist today, in part, because of an act passed in 1881 by the Texas legislature authorizing counties to sell bonds to finance the construction of new courthouses. This change of state law combined with the prosperity that followed the Civil [...]
I don’t often write first-person accounts of what I’m thinking on a given day. For one thing, I don’t think many people care. Second, the sort of mundane gruel I pump out here doesn’t require much explanation. Today is the exception. First, I want to explain
First Impression and Brief History A few weeks ago I read a post on the Texas Highways blog about the town of West Texas. I’ve been talking about small towns along this stretch of I35, and West was one I’d visited. Anyway, that post kind of clicked for me because as you know, a road [...]