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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Desdichado" data-source="post: 1708944" data-attributes="member: 2205">The Great Dyal Vacation of 2004 Trip Journal Entry #12: July 13thToday we went through a large part of Texas that I didn't really know; poking around on little country roads (that luckily had very little traffic) and stopping in places like Junction Texas.  The biggest city we went through between San Antonio and Lubbock was probably San Angelo.  By the time we got there, though, the scenery had gone to pot.My folks live in Lubbock now, and they moved after I moved to Detroit, so it's relatively recent and I certainly don't know the town very well.  It seems like a nice enough place, but the sheer, unadulterated flatness of everything there is just oppressive.So I was surprised to really enjoy the scenery going through little towns between San Antonio and San Angelo.  Although it's not exactly the Texas I grew up in, it's probably the Texas most people from outside think of; lots of scrubby, dry trees, lots of scrubby bushes, lots of prickly pear style cactus plants, lots of khaki oak trees.  I can imagine this drive in the spring, covered with wildflowers; bluebonnets, indian paintbrushes and the whole routine.  In fact, as a reminder of home, we have a big Porfirio Salinas picture of bluebonnets in a landscape that he might have spotted on the side of the road right here.For the unitiated, which is probably most of you since it's a bit of an esoteric school of art, Porfirio Salinas is essentially the founding member of "bluebonnet landscapes", a style of painting that flourished briefly during the tenure of Lyndon B. Johnson in particular, when he had some put in the White House.  Basically, it's Texas landscapes with lots of blue wildflowers.  We really like ours (it's a print; the originals are scarily expensive after LBJ's patronage) though.The scenery, as I mentioned, took a drastic turn for the worst as we got up on the plateau and did the whole approach to Lubbock itself.  We arrived lateish in the afternoon (because we left quite late in the morning) and hung out with my parents for a while.  We went and popped over to my brother's house, even though he had already left town, because we hadn't seen it before, and that, in a nutshell, was the day.I didn't sleep well for some reason that night; in fact, I got up in the middle of the night and popped in the Three Musketeers DVD; the one with Michael York, Richard Chamberlain, Oliver Reed, Charleton Heston, Faye Dunaway; man, that movie is good.  One of my favorites to this day.The next day was to be a big driving day again; we had to make it all the way to Provo Utah, which was a fairly long drive, so I was a bit nervous after my lack of sleep.  Luckily Julie really likes to drive on trips, so other than the worst time of day in the afternoon when everyone else in the car sleeps, she's probably do most of the driving.</blockquote>

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