Yes, going East to West, once you get past San Antonio, I-10 is pretty lonely to El Paso.
Crawford is here:
mapquest.com
sort of between Waco and Gatesville....central Texas. But, from what I hear, you cannot get very close to his place.
Hmmmm. I got to thinking about I-10. Check out the stuff (not all inclusive, just all I could think of) to do on I-10, going east to west.
Between Beaumont and Houston:
NHRA Drags at Baytown
houstonraceway.com
San Jacinto battleground, Sam Houston against Santa Anna
tpwd.state.tx.us
Houston: Rockets, Astros, Texans, Space Center, Six Flags/Astroworld, etc.
houston-guide.com
San Antonio: Spurs, Riverwalk, The Alamo, Hall of Horns, Sea World, etc
sapage.com
Lukenbach: Remember Willie, Waylon and the boys??? <gg>
Fredricksburg(off I-10 30 miles or so but worth the trip .
Admiral Nimitz museum(yes, he was a land locked Texan.)
nimitz-museum.org
PS: be sure and see the Japanese Garden of Peace, donated by Japan's leaders.
nimitz-museum.com
Ozona. Rick Crawford's Team Owner Circle Bar Racing
truckseries.com
and at his truck stop there is a small auto museum, which seems a weird place for a former indy car and current nascar truck owner to be located.
Fort Stockton: The Firestone Test Track-fastest corvette
motortrend.com
Fastest Sustained Speed in a Corvette
..Tommy Morrison averaged 175.885 mph (including pit stops!) over a 24-hour period in his modified Corvette ZR-1, speeding around a high-speed oval in Fort Stockton, Texas.
Van Horn: Smokehouse Auto Museum
lone-star.net
another bunch of cars out in the middle of nowhere.....
El Paso, , Hueco Tanks State Park, numerous museums, Fort Bliss military base,http://www.bliss.army.mil/
Sunland Park Racetrack and Casino, sunland-park.com andof course there is Juarez with all it's .....er.....stuff.....<g>
Well....that's the short version...... |
