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Escape route needed
So, one day I get up and somewhere along my 2.5 miles from my apartment to the Trib, I decide to bug out, take off, run away … where do I go? I don’t know, but I do know it wouldn’t be to the Waco Barnes and Noble.
An elementary school principal from Clifton was missing for a day, had two counties looking for him, and then was found the next day at Barnes and Noble. Don’t get me wrong, I am totally not judging this guy. I don’t know his circumstances. Plus, don’t we all, at some point, fantasize about just getting away?
I’ve felt the urge to run since I was a kid, but because I’m a good girl, I always come back before the authorities are called. I mean, escape on the pre-panic level can probably be healthy.
In middle and high school, I went out my window and trolled the golf course during the pre-dawn hours. In college, I hit the highway and tore off to Charlotte and back or toured the SC backroads, the smell of honeysuckle thick in the damp air. Me and my bff Amy still make the drive across Paris Mountain when I’m in Greenville.
But I don’t have a Waco escape route — a drive to take, preferably at night, windows down, with the wind blowing the day and all of its damage off of me.
Do you have any escape routes?
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By misguided Toolbox
May 12, 2009 7:21 PM | Link to this | Report comment abuse
If I was to just “light out for the territories” I’d probably head to Shreveport for some R&R: gamblin’, drinkin’, eating shrimp from the all-night buffet, more drinkin’, more gamblin’— maybe even get a tattoo.
By mark
May 12, 2009 10:21 PM | Link to this | Report comment abuse
Well, years ago I would say drive out to lake Waco, probably airport park, take a bottle of Boones Farm (your choice of flavor) some “mother nature” and watch the moonlight bounce off the waves until your pulse was back to normal. Since that’s not possible anymore unless you count driving out to airport park marina and watching the lights on the water (hint), I would say the drive up 933 towards Whitney is pretty uninterrupted and mind clearing. Just don’t speed (ask El whats his name). Or you could just hop on I-35 and head to ITALY. Yes, I’m still hurting…Or, if you’re really intent on getting away for 24 hours or more, I’d head thru Houston in the dead of night and sit on the seawall at Galveston listening to the waves until the sun comes up. It don’t suck.
By just me
May 12, 2009 11:13 PM | Link to this | Report comment abuse
How long do you have?
My favorite route for a quick trip is west out Highway 6, turn south on 185, then when you get to Crawford pick up 317 towards McGregor. Head back home on Highway 84. If you have more time, go all the way to Valley Mills on Highway 6 and pick up 317 there.
If you have more time than that, even, take Highway 84 to 281, then head south to Marble Falls. Definitely a mind-clearing drive. :)
By katsura
May 13, 2009 4:45 PM | Link to this | Report comment abuse
My escape involves leaving the planet… not the atmosphere mind you, just the surface of the earth. I am a student pilot with Wings for Christ International and have learned that the best place to get away from it all involves getting some air between me and the ground. Nothing like it! Add some steep turns and stalls, just for fun, and you get replenished fast. Also, the fields and trees and a nice sunset look that much better from up above.
By Cecil 1
May 13, 2009 5:02 PM | Link to this | Report comment abuse
Beam me up Scotty….
By KDF
May 13, 2009 5:48 PM | Link to this | Report comment abuse
katsura, great idea, but I can’t fly. :( My neighbor has a trampoline.
By KDF
May 13, 2009 6:26 PM | Link to this | Report comment abuse
er, Mark, I may have seen you at Airport Park — or maybe two of you — back in those days. Parks were nice (depending on one’s definition of nice) back then. Spent many a lunch time there, too. Times are better now — and clearer, but I do remember a season or two in Waco parks.
Wendy, drive north on Hwy 6, hit the Tulsa Turnaround and come on back to Waco. An old seventies thing. (That’s all I’ll divulge).<><
By eddie speegle
September 28, 2009 8:29 PM | Link to this | Report comment abuse
on the old waco cream puff. the recpie is a 7 min. frosting with maple.i make all the time….its the real thing.try it yull see it is
By eddie speegle
September 28, 2009 8:33 PM | Link to this | Report comment abuse
THE OLD WACO CREAM PUFF RECPIE. IS A 7 MIN FROSTING WITH MAPLE. I MAKE IT ALL THE TIME>>