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Originally posted by Texas Tom:
By the way, McNally must know some short-cuts I don't. When I Google this, it pops up as almost 400 miles. Still doable though.
Tom
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Sorry Tom in my haste I omitted to include the 84 miles from Lubbock to Snyder thus the Lubbock to Austin leg on McNally should be 383 nearer to your 400.For anybody not intimtately familiar with the largest state's geography here is a scan of what I was looking at:-
I remember when in Montreal discovering that the province of Quebec is somewhat larger than Texas.
I also recall the apocryphal urban legend rife in Expo year 1967
that Texans were seen arriving at Dorval airport heavily swathed in full winter gear in July and finding it a touch embarassing to find that the temperature was the best part of 100°F, But it was reasoned that the only time such visitors would normally hear anything of the Great White North was in winter weather forecasts when they were constantly being told that there were "cold winds from Canada"
Another such popular tale concerned the first Quebecker that year to venture to Boston where he received a traffic ticket made out to "expo 67" since that was to the cop the registration number on the front of the car
Tom you also said
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Originally posted by Texas Tom:
As far as Austin goes, I considered that, and it is still an option. But actually, Austin is about an hour and a half farther than Ft. Worth and we have quite a few alternatives for friends/relatives who could put us up in Ft. Worth, versus none in Austin. Tom
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That was realy why I suggested that you contact Melissa Joe she and her husband Denny are lovely people and exceedingly good Lightfoot fans and guitar players and would surely be organising some sort of pre concert get together as will no doubt the fans who make it to Fort Worth
Use corfid's message systemm to send her a private message including the URL of this topic and see what develops. I am certain that you will not regret it
[ March 02, 2007, 17:21: Message edited by: johnfowles ]