Just wondering if the folks that asked for directions and traveled to the Panhandle lately had good trips or bad?????

This weekend will reveal all.

FYI,

We just did the terrible 1100 mile round trip to watch Final Review. On the way from Canyon to College Station, we took 287/I-35, expecting it to be smooth since it was a Saturday.

BIG MISTAKE!

There was some sort of gosh-awful construction mess on I-35 Southbound in Ft. Worthless. Cost us about 45 minutes, and we ended up exiting and going through the Stockyards area to avoid 10 miles of stopped traffic.

Moral: Check the Texas DOT construction page before leaving next time.

We still made it on time, BTW.

On the way back, we used the 36/I-20/84/I-27 route.

The mileage Canyon to College Station:

287 Route: 535 miles
36 Route: 545 miles

Disclaimer: These were the distances according to the trip odemeter of two different vehicles. So if each had even a 1% error, that means the distance was anywhere from dead even to 20+ miles longer through Lubbock.


I'd say your choice of route depends on personal preference, weather, construction, and possibility of rush-hour delays in Ft. Worth.

The distance is about a wash.

To Everyone who Offered Directions so that we could leave straight from my Aggie's graduation for the mountains of Colorado:

Unfortunately we didn't get to try any of the directions from Aggieland to Amarillo and points beyond. The Aggie didn't make it to graduation....oh, we're pretty sure he graduated (in Electrical engineering! Woo-Hoo!) but he was still drugged up from the orthopedic surgery on his arm (4 inch screw and some "baling wire" done Friday, and he wasn't exactly "fit", nor able to follow the orthopedic doc's orders to keep his elbow elevated and on ice during the ceremony.

The elbow break happened mid-finals in a basketball game so, of course, he didn't go to the quack shack until late Wednesday after his last EE final on Tuesday. Such heroic stoicism! X-rays revealed why it hurt so bad, and surgery was scheduled for Friday while the other graduation ceremonies were going on.

I brought his sore and doped up post-op self back to New Braunfels, expecting to turn around and head back for graduation the next morning if he was able and willing, but he was still pretty zonked. By noon we figured he could sleep in the car under an M.D.'s supervision (his dad) and headed for Colorado from here via I-10 (NOW 80mph speed limit, but then it was only 75mph!) to Ft. Stockton, and on to Roswell, Santa Fe, Alamosa, etc.

Thanks for all your suggestions....it would have been nice to have been able to follow them, and maybe someday it'll work out that we can!