A few reasons why I am glad I did have the chance to live in Texas.

[Maddy McCall]

Drunken horseshoe games at the Beer Barn on Hwy. 80 in Longview.

As a child, going to my uncle's roping arena and watching REAL cowboys in action on Saturday nights.

My favorite relatives live there--Texans know how to throw a potluck dinner.

Pittsburgh Hot Links. If you haven't had them, you don't know what you've missed.

Texas swing music.

Authentic Mexican food for three dollars a plate.

Ann Richards.

The Texas Ds.

San Antonio - Riverwalk.

LBJ.

GOPisEvil and other great DU friends from Texas. :toast:

[Pacifist Patriot]

1. A few more reasons why I was glad I got to live in TX.

I remember cool Christmas lights on houses. Interesting smelling leather stalls in a market in Juarez. A pizza place named Spankys? I was 3-4 years old.

[Sequoia]

2. I was there for a few weeks (basic training)

and I liked:

1) Excellent thunder storms with lots o' lightening

2) Big sky

3) The smell of humidity in the morning

4) My first Jack-in-the-Box when Jack was in the box (order drive thru)

[Zenlitened]

3. Spent about a month in Austin many years ago.

Loved it. And the food? Well, let's just say the Tex-Mex you find here in New England isn't QUITE the same. (The lobster, however, is far superior!) :D

[GOPisEvil]

4. Awww...thanks!

:hi:

A few of my favorite Texas things:

Dance Halls like Gruene Hall or Sangerhalle
Elgin Sausage
Texas BBQ
Tito's Handmade Vodka
South by Southwest
Austin City Limits

[MindPilot]

5. Did you say "Longview"?

I have family in Kilgore.

My trips to that place always make me appreciate the dense traffic and high cost of living in SoCal just that much more.

As a kid I lived in Amarillo. After that hell-hole, Denver seemed like frickin' paradise.

So what's good about Texas? Leaving.

[GOPisEvil]

6. The thread for bashing my home is here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x2247935

[cry baby]

13. I was born in Kilgore!!!!! n/t

[Joe Power]

7. Lots to like

-Shiner Bock
-St. Arnolds Amber
-Goode Co. BBQ
-Brown Sugar's BBQ
-Sixth Street
-Lyle Lovette
-The bats
-Cockroachs that are even bigger than the bats
-Kolaches
-The Butthole Sufers
-Calling people back home in Ohio and asking them what the temperature is (3 degrees F) just so that I can mention that it is 72 and sunny.
-The Houston Rodeo and Livestock Show
-ZZ Top

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

8. 6th street, Austin

The Sonora Caverns
The Plateaus

[GOPisEvil]

9. Speaking of 6th St., remember the hot Bulgarian bartendress?

The one who makes the awesome appletinis? She's on the left! :evilgrin:

[yellowdogintexas]

25. aren't the Caverns of Sonora just about the most beautiful thing

anywhere?

I have been in a ton of caves, there is just nothing like it!!

[Skittles]

27. Skittles trivia

I worked on 6th Street for ten years, evening shift. Used to sneak out to get fajitas hot off the street cart. Took many a drunk student back to Jester lest they be hauled off by the paddy wagon.

[livinginphotographs]

10. You didn't mention Lone Star Dem.

Damn, after that pic she posted, I'm thinking of moving.

[Maestro]

11. Wide Open Spaces

And the chance to sample wine while looking at beautiful vistas. Hill Country Wine

or an awesome national park
Big Bend

Forests? Yeah we have them. I used to drive through this one often.
Angelina National Forest

We even have mountains.
Davis Mountains

But of course my favorite open space is my backyard.


As for the music, got to give a shout out to Eric Johnson, long time Austinite guitarist, and Joe Ely! They go well with my metal preference don't they?

[cry baby]

12. Dallas Cowboys, Tex-Mex, the Dallas skyline, great antique shops,

Colonial Golf Tournament in Ft. Worth, TCU Horned Frogs, El Paso, best friends, parents. I also love Ann Richards. Oh, and the way you can be at a stop light at one end of Lubbock and see every stop light change all the way across town.

[DemoTex]

14. Damn! You forgot DemoTex!

My great-great-great uncle (Mirabeau Beaunaparte Lamar) was the second president of the Republic of Texas. That's why there are so many "Lamar" high schools in Texas. I miss Texas too. For the third or fifth time!

[cry baby]

15. I graduated from one of the "Lamar" high schools!

[DemoTex]

16. Houston?

.

[cry baby]

17. No, Arlington Lamar...

but I also lived in the Woodlands - know where that is?

[DemoTex]

20. The Exxon ghetto north of Houston?

Yep. Know it well.

[cry baby]

22. It was "Stepfordville Hell" - I had to get outta there!!!!!

[NGU]

18. Still living there and loving it

Not having to shovel snow

Wide open spaces

Dixie Chicken in College Station--Whoop!

Horseback riding

White sandy beaches

Beautiful women

[DemoTex]

21. Whatever melts your butter ...

White sandy beaches? In Texas? What are you smoking?

[NGU]

23. Not smoking anything

I'll admit that there are not many, but some do exist. You have to know where to find them.

[BikeWriter]

19. I haven't been everywhere, but I've been around some...

...and I'm still in Texas!

[yellowdogintexas]

24. things I like about living in Texas:

Sundance Square in FW (free parking after 5 and on weekends)
the Kimball/Amon Carter/Modern complex
Ft Worth Zoo
First United Methodist in FW
The Hip Pocket Theatre
miscellaneous other live theatre as well.

you can get anywhere in FW in 20 minutes

the long spring and fall
the very short winter


the incredible variety and deliciousness of Mexican food
bilingual billboards: I really do like them, I am picking up a little Spanish from them

really nice state park system
Austin
San Antonio

the other terrific Democrats I have met since living here

BIG ONE: THE WILDFLOWERS IN THE SPRING, thank you Lady Bird Johnson!

chickenfried steak
steak period

my really huge oak tree in the front yard.

Scarborough Faire in Waxahachie every spring.

Longhorn Caverns, Lonestar Caverns, Caverns of Sonora

I love how you can drive about 20 minutes straigh west from downtown FW and be in the middle of NOWHERE

[Skittles]

26. the Austin bats

they are COOL :thumbsup: