TEXAS TRAVEL COLORING AND HANDOUTS (PDF)
A few printables brought along to enhance our long drive through Texas.
Max kept up with the towns and parks on his highway map.
I did my best to co-navigate with the King.
Stopping along the road to stretch and poke ourselves with tumbleweed.
“I have said that Texas is a state of mind, but I think it is more than that. It is a mystique closely approximating a religion. And this is true to the extent that people either passionately love Texas or passionately hate it and, as in other religions, few people dare to inspect it for fear of losing their bearings in mystery or paradox. But I think there will be little quarrel with my feeling that Texas is one thing. For all its enormous range of space, climate, and physical appearance, and for all the internal squabbles, contentions, and strivings, Texas has a tight cohesiveness perhaps stronger than any other section of America. Rich, poor, Panhandle, Gulf, city, country, Texas is the obsession, the proper study, and the passionate possession of all Texans.”
John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley
The kids chased tumbleweed across the hard, dry dirt of Texas.
The sunsets turned the arid landscape into a rum butter pie.
I imagined the sharp sting of scrub-brush scratching summer-bared legs.
The lonesome echo of acoustic guitars left us shivering in the palpable sunset.
