Originally Posted by Texas-Nana

As some of you are aware and a small number of you care, I have to buy a new vehicle. It's hard to surrender my beloved mama-van. (mini vans are mostly driven by mamas thus they are mama-vans) It's an emotional thing to give up Miranda Rose, I've admitted it and I'm working hard on forgetting that the wreck that has forced this upon me was due to my beloved husband's actions. In other words it's his fault and I may yet cause physical pain. After all she's only 12 years old and has a major oil leak. Why get rid of her? *sighs*

Anyway. So I began my search for my new best friend and trusty steed knowing that I would hold true to my political beliefs that bailing out the car manufacturers was WRONG and that I needed to buy only 100% American made.

It's hard.


DARN HARD


I get to choose between a Ford F150 or a Ford Expidition. Now lucky for me I like them both but have you seen the prices?

I can get a chev truck for 15 k less currently because of incentives. It's killing me.

Someone please remind me why I'm doing this.

Originally Posted by Texas-Nana

I ALWAYS miss Texas. How can I explain it? It's the very feel of life when I'm inside the borders. I miss Texas with an every waking ache in my heart and a yearning for home that I simply don't have words for.

It's the sky, the wind, the sunset over the red clay mountains in west Texas, and the whisper of the winds in the piney woods. It's the black dirt of central Texas and the smell of cotton. It's the deep belly laughs of old Texas men as they sit telling tall tales on weathered wooden porches of local beer halls and the delicate hands that old women hold over their mouths as they laugh quietly at those old men. It's larger than life, knowing we are......Texas.

I can't explain it ......I'm sorry.

Originally Posted by Agent86

Home isnt always where your from either..

I traveled halfway around the world to discover mine...

Originally Posted by Working Class Patriot