Say hi to the friendly neighbor dog who up and joined me on an LSD-infused four mile stroll through the 95° sunshine and greenery of east Texas in August. Pretty comfy desu, it's lovely to never be cold. Humidity is moderate compared to Southeast Asia, doesn't bother me at all.Tomorrow me and my brother drive across the state to repo his car from his ex fiance. The roadtrip is going to kickstart the next episode of adventures across America, with an eight-day itinerary stopping at various Deep South cities on my way to the East Coast. Despite poison ivy and blisters from yard projects, it felt good to have a house to relax in deep in the unvisited countryside of east Texas. But after a week here, I'm eager to get a move on and bask in the warmth of a southern summertime while traversing some very black ghettoish places. Got a couple tabs left over for my next fraternal reunion on the East Coast...this is the life. Own nothing, be happy. Overseas to home country without missing a beat, keep it moving, spend that cash, don't let it rot in the bank. Some other anon said $5K is his return-to-work threshold. Good idea. Enjoy the fruits of your labor while you can; health and freedom are temporal privileges which Fate can revoke any minute.Would be nice to take this all the way up to Quebec and the Maritimes before summer wraps up. We'll see how far it goes.
A very loyal pup, he accompanied me all the way to the ranch gate. 300 yards to the Trinity River, but 20 miles to the nearest public access point. So frustrating, but that's Texas. We respect property and don't jump gates around here
>>2903274private property is truly retarded enjoy texas
>>2903269>LSD-infused>more Tavistock Institute slopnot surprised
>>2903269Why do losers claim your only option for money is blowing it or sticking it in a bank? Are poors really that dumb,?
>>2903350>Just waste your lives doing drugs and being homeless goyim
>>2903373>Why do losers claim your only option for money is blowing it or sticking it in a bank? Are poors really that dumb,?yes
Big Springs is pretty blown-out, like prosperity packed up a long time ago and left it to wither away under the desert sun. The state park in town is scrubby and sweltering but still tranquil. My brother gave me the keys and $80 for the ride back to Crockett, said feel free to stop anywhere along the way. Lucky timing for him to have me around this weekend to retrieve his second car. He will be back on the road Sunday evening, while I will be boarding the Greyhound Monday morning. Looks like a vagabond night in the Texas woods is in store, as I do not care to carry my luggage 14 miles to the bus stop from my bro's house on foot. >>2903375Your kind always hated the freedom of the primitive man with an irrational passion. You genocided and enslaved the natives in order to turn earth's life energy into units of economic productivity. Be damned with the lot of you. I'll only work for the three life essentials as they are needed, not for the endless frivolities your kind invent and perpetuate in order to keep everyone perpetually striving and longing for moar.
98° sunshine feels fine on this Texas summer day, though most people stay hunkered down in the A/C. Glad to get one last experience in the western drylands before continuing on to the humid Southeast. America's diversity gladdens me. It would be so dull for everyone and everything to look similar. The poison ivy rash from clearing away a tangle of dead hairy vines is annoying, but travel can only feel like adventure when there is some degree of discomfort.
if you make it towards houston there are a few nice trails you could check out.
>>2903495I'll be spending Monday night in a Houston hostel near downtown. Gonna visit the faggy Montrose neighborhood, might not make it to Memorial Park and the nature areas.
The old big spring of Big Spring has been fucked by progress, but the park is okay. A nearby dam is the only reason there is standing water. My brother may be lining up a little delivery of nose powder for later on tonight. They're getting a motel room with two beds, but she looked to be in a frisky mood, so I might end up crashing out somewhere along the way back, next to a lake in the hot night wind or something.
The opulent downtown Hotel Settles runs about $160 per night, so dated the sign advertises "Air Conditioning". Not much in the area. Supposedly her cousin is gonna DJ at a bar in town tonight, we might as well turn up and have a little fun once the sun goes down.
>>2903495>if you make it towards houston there are a few nice trails you could check out.
>>2903512Lmao, the homeless bum can't go 24 hours without getting his nose candy or ass candy
>>2903507*slaps the SNOOZE button on the alarm clock*
$14 for this plate of Mexislop with two flour tortillas seemed like a good deal. The three of us had quite a night out, hitting up the bars before heading to a relative's house to do some more drinking and smoking and powdering of noses. There was some kind of drama going down, but I got left in the hotel room while they went out to break up a fight or something. Apart from one bar charging us $12 each for tiny shots of awful tequila, we had a good time. The morning hangover was brutal. A jeeta housekeeper walked into the room at 9:45 am and told me checkout is at 10. Annoying. Overall I kinda liked Big Springs, for a west Texas shithole it was more appealing than I expected.
I harvested a nice sack of ripe prickly pears from the park cacti in Big Springs. Jesus there were so many, and they were so sweet and refreshing. Beats me why nobody else is harvesting them. Are the little prickly hairs that much of a turnoff? Every time I handle one I get hairs poking my fingertips. Slice in half lengthwise and scoop out the inside with a spoon - that's the best way I've found to enjoy them.
Driving 400+ miles across Texas the morning after a big night out was very tiring. I had to pull over and nap for two straight hours, falling asleep in the driver's seat and then jumping awake wondering how the hell I ended up in somebody else's car on the side of the road in nowhere Texas. Oh shit did I fall asleep and wreck? Amazing how sparsely traveled the route I took was. Texas has so many counties with barely any population, even as its cuties continue to balloon.
>>2903730Take a butane crack torch, and burn the hairs off before you pick them.Makes things a lot easier.
>>2903729Why can't they just start cleaning the other rooms and kick you out last? I do not understand why Americans are so inhospitable and hyper-anal about to-the-minute checkout times and fees and screaming if you are more than 15 min late.
>>2903840Why cant brownoids follow the rules? You rented the room until 10 you leave by 10 you want an extra day then pay up suhkdeep
The neighbor's sad old horse. She divorced her alcoholic husband, he took the back half of the property, got electric and water hookups, then parked an RV trailer out there and spent the rest of his life alone in the woods. We went back there through our property and marvelled at all the stuff left behind. Even a fridge full of unopened beer cans all ruptured from the freezes. He built an outhouse with a flushing toilet and lived amidst all his stuff from the house. Evidently he died a decade ago and nobody had come by since.
>>2903914because the rule has no practical purpose other than to harass peopleits not like you NEED the rooms exactly at 10amit's hospitalitypeople will stay with you again if you are nice to them, they will not if you are rude to them america is a hostile and confrontational place>just obey the rules assholethis is how we got covid panic
>>2903945Then sleep in a dumpster crybaby. And make a thread how its not fair when you get dumped into a trash compactor at 10:00
>>2903840What the fuck are you talking about retard. 10am is perfectly reasonable, and cleaners need a few hours to turn over all the rooms. They cant hop around.Im so glad youre a penniless shut in so you cant actually bother any real human beings with your deluded shit.
>>290395310 am is not reasonable at all , the standard is 11, and they can just start cleaning the other rooms first, its not like you are the only room and the next guest is coming right at 2pm, they have hours
>>2903954You dont believe that. Youre just arguing for the sake of arguing. Its a form of mental illness and you will be happier if you get some help with it.
>>2903964Lmao yep. Ornery little shit, this one
>>2903964I do believe that. I've had this experience tons of times at hotels and airbnbs that they are unreasonably strict about check out time with no justifiable reason, i.e. they never actually check and confirm yes the next guest is actually going to check in at 3-4pm - they never ever check with the next guest. I hate landlords so goddamn much. They are just doing this to be obnoxious, flex power, and "follow the rules". They could easily just start cleaning other rooms and gently knock in an hour. But no, their boss is a control freak and cannot handle unpredictability.
I was the only white person on the Greyhound to Houston...a trend which I expect to repeat itself over the coming days. My seatmate was a country black man from Crockett - five years straight, still on probation - whose family sent him off to the city to work and provide for them, seeing as jobs in town were tough to come by. He lived in a racially diverse worker rental where roomies got each other's back - even the crazy Mexican who fried his brain with K2. But he wishes he could be raising cattle on a ranch.
The hostel neighborhood is really pretty, a far cry from the hideous miles of sprawl and blight surrounding the city center. The Indian owner stuck me in a room with three giggling bong cuties who have strong southern England accents. They were pretty friendly. So far Houston has favorably impressed me. It seems cleaner and better-kept than Dallas. Metro daypass costs only $3. The sun is blazing with fury, but now that lunch is finished I'm ready to head out and see some city. Had a long talk about US travel plans with a Costa Rican on his Texas vacation; he shared some of his delicious beef linguini with me. Turns out it is legal to crack a beer in most Texas city parks. We both assumed it was illegal until I did some research.
>>2904021if you're looking for good food in Houston you need to head to Bellaire on the west side of town, that's where our chinatown and little saigon is. That's also where the good looking women are. It might be difficult without a car though? Anyways if you head out there try Old Alley Hotpot if you want hotpot, otherwise do X Kitchen and get their boiled beef if you want sichuan food. For Banh Mi, alpha bakery down the road is the best. For vietnamese coffee, quan ong tre.
>>2904022Closer to montrose, Bar Boheme is an outdoor bar with good frozen mojito. They have decent bar food too. Sorry I don't know food in that area, I only talk to asian baddies in this city.
>>2904023Are you the bald guy in my hostel rizzing up the basic-looking but chatty Asian girl? This hostel is more sociable than most others I've stayed in recently. Halfway up the stairs I heard the bong girls giggling up a storm in the room. What a bundle of laughs they are. Nature downtown was pretty disappointing. The bayou is nothing more than a muddy sewer full of catfish gasping for air. Dozens of overpasses criscross the riverside pathway. But people still enjoy it nonetheless on a breezy August evening.
Houston like other Texas cities has a big litter problem. Here it's looking almost like a river in India desu
Even on the metro people fall into casual conversation here. Houston seems one of the less neurotic American cities. But I'm still not feeling fully energized and engaged after last week's activities. Flea bites and poison ivy rash continue to bug me. No biggie: I've learned to accept limitations in what I can experience on my trip. Tried talking to the same Asian girl myself about her work in Alaska and after a "what?" she replied with one sentence and then quit talking to me. I'm definitely not the Asian girl's type, that's for damn sure. Too ascetic in appearance and mannerisms.
Tomorrow I leave Texas. Not gonna miss it desu. Some of the small towns in the hill country are cute, but the main streets are so desolate that there's no way I'd be able to find a decent job there as a foot traveler.
>>2904067you can pick up triamcinolone nose spray at most pharmacies, its meant for your nose, but it reduces itching on skin too if you spray it and rub it in a bit
>>2904067That's got to be one of the ugliest cities in the world. Who the fuck feels inspired going into the economic and cultural hub of their state and looking at fucking boxes? The soullessness of midcentury American architecture is the worst of all time and there's no competition. Even children design better buildings than that.
>>2904065TBF there are a LOT of h1-b jeets in Houston. Wherever in the world they go, massive amounts of litter follow. Gotta keep that izzat up…
>>2904064no I live here. Sorry that you had a bad time down in the city. Houston in is a weird city in that the downtown is absolute dogshit and run down with crime. It gets nicer up north and out west, but without a car it is very difficult to get anywhere.
>>2904221I saw a fair number of druggies around and one cluster of police mediating a dispute, but the city felt more desolate than dangerous. Went out for a walk at 9:30 pm and everything was so dead I just gave up and returned to the hostel to talk to fellow guests until 1 am. Man it's been so long since I stayed at a hostel where people are actively socializing in an open circle and encouraging others to join in the conversation.Now it's time to check out, walk the 1.7 miles to the station and wait for my (delayed, what's new) train to Louisiana.
>>2904228Where in LA?>t. Ragin Cajun
>>2904275Lake Charles. It's nit the shithole everyone said it was, I even saw a gaggle of white girls hanging out on Ryan Street.Jim's Seafood right down the street from my smelly Indian-run motel supposedly has a $7.80 shrimp poboy, cash only. A/C units all run nonstop, no wonder the price is inflated. Gonna chow down and then check out the lakefront park for sunset.
>>2903495There's a serial killer in houston right now dumping bodies in the bayous. Google houston bayou killings.
Great sunset on the Lake Charles waterfront. The shrimp poboy tasted good for the first couple bites, but then the spicy greasy breading and globs of mayo began making me feel like a goyslop muncher. Maybe I'll get some real food in NOLA, though the high tourist demand means they ream you $30+ for any crawfish dish around town. Here I could've gotten crawfish fried rice for $15.More women smiled or said hi to me in one hour of walking the Lake Charles waterfront than in a week of wandering the streets of any part of Asia. I still don't get how guys keep shilling Asian or Latin countries as some kind of dating paradise while lambasting the US as full of hostile women. None of that is true in my experience.
>>2904329Catfish gotta eat
I can’t wait to escape Texas like you have. One more year
What's the most disappointing free hotel breakfast you've ever seen in your travels?
>>2904375I'm constantly dreaming of stepping off the train in Alpine and hitching down to Big Bend...to camp, to work, to make friends etc.
>>2904455Italy 2003Genoalemon croissant that tasted nothing like real lemons
