{"id":1749,"date":"2008-04-05T04:30:13","date_gmt":"2008-04-05T09:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/2008\/04\/05\/days-3-and-4-texas\/"},"modified":"2008-04-05T04:35:38","modified_gmt":"2008-04-05T09:35:38","slug":"days-3-and-4-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/2008\/04\/05\/days-3-and-4-texas\/","title":{"rendered":"Days 3 and 4: Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"

Day 3 also included Louisiana and Mississippi, but even before I left Alabama, Taylor and her friend Cheryl were mocking my car for its filthy appearance. When I took a closer look, I discovered something intriguing: that wasn’t dirt on it at all! It was pollen! My poor little Fit was encased entirely in a light, even coating of tree jizz.<\/i><\/p>\n

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Man, you know what’s going to be great? Not living in the South.<\/p>\n

But after that: Texas! Things do not seem to be bigger in Texas, but Texas is definitely bigger than anywhere else. This photo should give you some sense of scale:<\/p>\n

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See, it’s like the star is Texas, and Hugner is Earth.<\/p>\n

Kris and Erica were kind enough to put me up for the night, even under the stress of their still-in-progress move and its pipe-related disasters. While there I got to meet Oxford, who demonstrated that it wasn’t just Hugner, but all<\/i> Jinxlets who make dogs want to chomp them. And snuggle.<\/p>\n

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That latter shot features not just Kris and Hugner, but the original Hieronymous B’Gosh<\/a> himself. I’d label them but come on, they’re pretty easy to tell apart. (NO Kris is in the MIDDLE)<\/p>\n

I spent the remainder of the day and most of the night trying to get out the other side of Texas. I made it just barely over the border before collapsing in Las Cruces, which is a little pilgrimage to me for Anacrusis-related reasons. Hugner was tired of the whole thing a mere five hours out.<\/p>\n

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After that he went over to the fence and peed because there was not so much as a gas station for two hours either way on I-20. Bad Hugner! But how can you even try to yell at that face?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Day 3 also included Louisiana and Mississippi, but even before I left Alabama, Taylor and her friend Cheryl were mocking my car for its filthy appearance. When I took a closer look, I discovered something intriguing: that wasn’t dirt on it at all! It was pollen! My poor little Fit was encased entirely in a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,69,83,33,5,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-california","category-exertion","category-kristofer-straub","category-photography","category-stress","category-travel-and-acronyms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1749\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}