The speed of Texas
Submitted by sam on Sun, 08/08/2010 - 09:28
Texas highway 67 looking south, just south of I-10. Aug. 7, 2010
If you've never made the drive from Austin to Marfa, I cannot recommend it highly enough. It's mountains, hills, mesas, orchards, scrublands, pastures, cattle, "showgoats," copious roadkill. You can't drive as fast as you want, exactly, but the speed limit tops out at 80 ... which means 88 is pretty much de rigeur ... and if you're daydreaming to TV on the Radio or to the Radiolab podcast in your CD player, you might glance down and see the world whirring past at 95 mph. This video is from some speed south of that, but you get the idea.
