Nacogdoches is a very pretty town, a college town with the Sam Houston State University in the center of it. The Visitor Center is downtown on Main Street.
Thomas Rusk Statue.
A new sculpture was dedicated while we were here.
On Valentines day we took off and drove up to Kilgore and toured the East Texas Oil Museum
Interesting layout in the museum. Old trucks,
old cars,
Step into a full-scale town of stores, people, animals, and machinery.
We stopped in at the General Store went to the Drugstore where they have this juke box.
Rutted streets
At the Barbershop you can listen to the news of a new gusher.
There is a theatre where you can watch historical footage of the boom period and what it feels like when you get a blowout gusher. We took an “elevator ride to the center of the earth to where the oil deposits lie”.
Mural of a city block in town that was wall to wall oil rigs.
Today that city block is a park with the replicas of some of the oil rigs.
We left Nacogdoches on Friday 2/22 for Temple TX and the Elks Club. From Temple we took Highway 190 to I-10 near Fort Stockton. No traffic on Saturday nice highway and interesting to be driving across Texas and seeing something other than trucks and freeway. We stayed the night in Fort Stockton at the Eagles.
Next stop Las Cruces, NM
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