I enjoyed your pictures – I think my favorite time in Texas, was when we were hunting for a place to stop because of a terrible storm, and came to the small town of Shamrock. It didn’t look all that inviting, but I must say we had the best darned meals during our stay. We took a small room; walked up to their little diner in the pouring rain, and smelled some wonderful chicken odors coming out that door. In fact it was so good (the food), we decided to stay two days; just waiting for the rain to let up – enjoying the scenery, and loving all that good cooking.

One favorite road-trip of ours: From Bellingham, Washington to Tijuana, Mexico – north to south; highway #1 as much of the time we could spend on it. During that time, I saw the mountains; oceans – waving wheat – huge fields of artichokes; birds of every kind, and it made me have a new understanding of how they wrote ‘America’.

Another favorite trip is to start from the tip of Florida, and go up the east coast to the very ‘end of the line’. Another one is starting from the upper peninsula of Michigan and driving all the way down to Florida – one more is using I-10, and crossing the country that way – taking all the beautiful exits and visiting the many places along that route.

I did one from Cincinnati, Ohio to Seattle – the expanse of Wyoming; Montana – the Dakotas…..it’s astounding how beautiful that is.

I wish there was a soft-ware program where I could build a map of my travels; I’d love to see the lines criss-cross. It would be fun to have something like that that could be shared on a blog……….