Swimming across Texas

My latest piece on Crikey is up: Swimming across Texas. ๐Ÿ™‚

Here are a few bonus photos of our time in vorTexas:

We'll take what water we can find, like so many before us...
West Texan gardening
Off to the Big Texan, Texan style
The Jonai were here - to be painted over momentarily by the Jones...
Cadillac Ranch - 'cos Texas is good at farming cars
Blowout in the RockVan - disaster art. ๐Ÿ˜‰

Swimming across Texas

To really experience Texas, you have to drive across it without air-conditioning in the middle of July.

No, not really. But we did.

The unrelenting heat may have coloured my impression of the biggest state in the Lower 48 somewhat, but now that I’m sitting in cool evening air at 7100ft high in the Rockies, I like to think I’ve regained a little perspective.ร‚ย The twitches have completely stopped too, which is a good sign, right?

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