Recently I got to travel to areas way back in the hills that I haven’t seen since I was just a kid. It’s so far back that there aren’t any gas stations or stores of any kind for a long ways. There are no signal lights or busy intersections. Mostly dirt and gravel roads. It’s a place where you can just relax and take it easy. I told my last living uncle that it felt like we had gone back in time a hundred years or more. He agreed. It feels like home back in the tall, tree covered hills and valleys. Naturally it’s because that’s where I fished and chased grasshoppers for fish bait many moons ago.
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I went back home some years ago. Drove the old back roads, the abandoned houses and fields. One old concrete road was poured in individual squares. The grass and brush was growing up in it, cracks were uneven, some places unable to cross and had to be inventive to get around. Just to show my family a broken down old house and dairy barn I use to milk cows in.
Hard to believe most of the folks there have little to no cell service and travel 50 to 60 miles to town for groceries.
Most have died off and the kids have moved off.
It was a great childhood living off the land and being satisfied with a simple life.
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I live in a place similar to what you described. It’s nice most of the time but can also be incredibly inconvenient. The only gas station/store within about 20 minutes of us burned down a few months ago. Talk about a freakin hassle. We are getting a little bit better cell service in areas, recently, but still nothing at the house.
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Every time I look in the mirror and see the old Geezer staring back at me I go back in time and wonder “where did it all go”? Occasionally I’ll drive back into Houston (the Spring Branch area) and go by our home. I remember all the good times and bad times we had there. My dad died in the backyard there in 2010 after mowing the yard
Going north on Bingle Road you run into Hempstead highway. Take a right and a block down on the left is the old Esquire Ballroom. Patsy Cline sang there back in the day. Now it’s the largest queer country and western bar in the country. Man times have changed.
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When we moved in that little home in Spring Branch we didn’t have a/c. All we used was an attic fan and left the windows up. Could you imagine in this day and age sleeping with only a screen between you and the outside world? We did without a phone for a while as well. Gas was .25 a gallon back then.
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I got to spend a long weekend shooting white wings, drinkin whiskey, and smoking cigars, (I don't even like cigars) on the Rio Grande at Indian Hot Springs Ranch, many years ago. I have never felt further back in time, and I'd go back in a hot minute.Last edited by Dale Moser; 04-20-2021, 06:06 AM.
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Back then
Originally posted by Oleman View PostDadgum. At my age, 80+, go there all the time. Those were some good times.
We didn't even have a Phone /no cell phone either or computer.Hand cranked tractors too!
Never had a complaint back then .Thats all we knew...
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Originally posted by Hogmauler View PostWhen we moved in that little home in Spring Branch we didn’t have a/c. All we used was an attic fan and left the windows up. Could you imagine in this day and age sleeping with only a screen between you and the outside world? We did without a phone for a while as well. Gas was .25 a gallon back then.
That was all we had also until I was in jr high.
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When I go up to SE Kansas to my home town a couple of friends and I go to the river and commence shooting every gun we have. It gets noisy.
This year may be different with the ammo situation, but we'll manage some how.
For me the trip is definitely going back in time.
The major difference is the declining alcohol tolerance following the shooting fest. Minor and major story telling is the same wonderful event.
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