Straight from the Porch

Just when you think you can live the rest of your life without taking another road trip on Texas highways, you find out differently. I have been adventuring out on new roads—to me anyway—and I don’t mean metaphorically. Although, come to think of it, there’s some of that, too. My son is engaged to a perfectly wonderful young woman from College Station so the trek down there has become our newest well-traveled path. I’m way too familiar with Texas’s Interstate 35 corridor and could drive Interstates 20 or 10 or US 67/90 in my sleep, but put me on Interstate…