Road trip, day 1: Texas

A very hot day in Texas today - which is typical since both the forecast and the preceding week have promised cool weather!  I am almost boiling in my boots, jeans and turtle neck (called a skivvy in Australian) which I of course wore due to being too cold yesterday!  

We are in Dallas, I am taking a breather and letting Baxter run around while Will attends a sales call. After this, we have another three hour drive to our destination; a city called 'Palestine' where we will be based for the next couple of days.



 The cities we passed en-route through Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana have provided our entertainment for the drive. Their names suggest that their settlers couldn't be bothered thinking up new ones for their American home and simply recycled the names of where ever they had come from... or how they were feeling at the time! In Alabama we passed: London, Birmingham, Leeds, York, Cuba, and my personal fav Moody. In Mississippi: Monroe and Chunky to name a few! 

Having said that, Palestine Texas was not named by Arab settlers: it was named after the Northern settlement of Palestine Illinois! But I did find it interesting and I didn't know previously that all over the US, are cities named in honor of those English or European places that were left behind.

The highlight of our drive has so far been last night, when we were pulled over for speeding and Baxter (my mini poodle) barked and growled at the officer who approached our car with his high pitched squealing bark! I couldn't placate him at all and the officer thought it was so funny that he let us off scott-free!  Champion!