Since Gene wants more posts, I'll tell you about my trip to Texas.
First thing to like about Texas, if the road is paved, the speed limit is 75 mph. I kid you not, we spent the night in Colorado City and then headed south for San Antonio. The road leaving Colorado City (63) was a tiny two lane road with something dead on it every 100 yards. I was scared to death that I was going to hit a deer or skunk (lots of skunks). We drove for 1.5 hours and only saw one vehicle. You gotta love that.
On I-10 the traffic was extremely light with one truck behind me and no one in the oncoming lane. I could see for a loooong way, so decided it was time to do a top en run with the wife's new Q5 TDI. I planted my foot in and it jumped to 132 mph where it hit a limiter. Looking at the tach, I think it would have made around 140 or so at redline. I let up on pedal and was coasting down to 88 mph where I had been running and the next car over the hill coming at me was a state trooper. I just waited for him to pull me over.
He asked if I knew how fast I was going and told him not exactly because I just did a top end run and was going back down to the speed limit. I told him that with be being the only car on the road I thought it was a good place to try it. Luckily, I have the "thin blue line" sticker on the rear window showing my support for LEO and was also wearing the matching shirt that day. He mentioned them and I told him my son was LEO and he handed me back my stuff and told me not to do that again and have a nice day. I now love Texas troopers.
Had a great time in San Antonio and went to the coast and walked on the beach. Looked into a few places that might be candidates for retiring (4 or 5 months out of the year - we're getting tired of snow).
In 5 or 6 years, might join Brad down there.
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