No Ukuleles!
reverendhornibastard
Depraved Deacon of Degeneracy
A few weeks ago while we were In far West Texas, we ate dinner at Jett’s Grill in Marfa’s Hotel Paisano. They serve up fantastic food and great margaritas. If you’re within 70 miles of Marfa and hankering for dinner, I highly recommend Jett’s Grill.
Later we drove to the viewing stand east of town to see the famous Marfa lights.
When we arrived I had an urgent need to pee (too many margaritas). My 10-year old daughter helpfully pointed out the men’s room for me.
I waltzed in but immediately turned around and came back out. It was obviously not the men’s room.
I told my daughter, “That’s not the men’s room!”
She asked, “How do you know it’s not the men’s room? Oh, ... is it because there were there no ukuleles on the wall?”
“Ukuleles? Why would there be any ukuleles on the wall in the men’s room?”
“I thought the men’s rooms all had ukuleles on the wall where the men pee.”
“You mean urinals?”
“Oh! I thought they were called ukuleles!”
Soon afterwards I found a bathroom with ukuleles on the wall.
Thank god for public ukuleles!
https://www.tuscl.net/photo.php?id=2248
Later we drove to the viewing stand east of town to see the famous Marfa lights.
When we arrived I had an urgent need to pee (too many margaritas). My 10-year old daughter helpfully pointed out the men’s room for me.
I waltzed in but immediately turned around and came back out. It was obviously not the men’s room.
I told my daughter, “That’s not the men’s room!”
She asked, “How do you know it’s not the men’s room? Oh, ... is it because there were there no ukuleles on the wall?”
“Ukuleles? Why would there be any ukuleles on the wall in the men’s room?”
“I thought the men’s rooms all had ukuleles on the wall where the men pee.”
“You mean urinals?”
“Oh! I thought they were called ukuleles!”
Soon afterwards I found a bathroom with ukuleles on the wall.
Thank god for public ukuleles!
https://www.tuscl.net/photo.php?id=2248
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I long since got rid of that prejudice; it started when I was just out of college and my workplace piped in Musak, the most annoying of which was the very bad Hawaian tunes that played from the speaker right above my seat.....
I used to plot how I would sneak in one night and cut the wires. 😉
Overall, not many people there, towns on map are just water stations for steam locomotives?
Ever go to Ojinaga Mexico?
SJG
Far West Texas (basically all of Texas west of the Pecos River) is dry, desolate and harsh.
Much of it is inhospitable.
There are some mountains but they are smaller and more desolate than what you would see in Colorado or California.
Still, some people find beauty in this desolation. There certainly are interesting places to see and explore.
But those who like what West Texas has to offer will find more varied and interesting landscapes in Arizona, Colorado, Utah and the more sparsely populated parts of California.
Not many people, and I suspect not much water either.
SJG
And then in NM Artesia, a place where the name has changed, 285 Show Club, Artesia.
And then ever cross from TX to El Porvenir Mexico? Hooker bars, House of dates?
And then Desiree, San Angelo Texas?
SJG
With the oil shale boom going on in parts of West Texas I bet there are lots of strip clubs out there now. But I am the wrong person to ask about them. I am unfamiliar with the strip club scene in West Texas.
My only forays into that part of Texas in decades have been recent trips with my family.
Seems like the driving distances are very high, in West Texas, very few people, very few strip clubs, even less AMPs. But still encouraging things like all the campuses of Sul Ross University.
Lawrence Sullivan Ross, Texas Ranger, Confederate Brigadier, Texas Governor, President of one of their most famous universities.
Thanks for the info, and that is good that you are spending time with your family.
The idea that the country should be crossed close to the Mexican Border I got from Ryan Bowen, who rode from LA to DC, Dec and Jan, to be at the Obama Inauguration. Rode between north and south on the coasts, otherwise right on the border. Some people call NOLA, to San Antonio, to Yuma, The Second Transcontinental Railroad. Warmer than the first one. So all the water stations in Texas.
https://www.bikingbis.com/2008/12/19/bik…
SJG