Originally Posted by BigMan

I was out there a couple months ago for work. I am pretty sure i was there the week before this thing goes on. Sweetwater has NOTHING! Its basically a tiny little dusty town with tumble weeds and big wind mills. One of my customers owns a strip mall out there and I had to go out to do an inspection. Its a 4 hour drive west of dallas into the dessert like nothingness.

Originally Posted by Larry227

If the rattlesnake festival is too daring for you there's always the mosquito festival in Clute every year.
I worked down there one summer and if there's ever a place for a mosquito festival, Clute is it. Never in my life have I ever seen skeeters so mean and so many.

Originally Posted by awalkinrain

And if you're not into rattlesnakes or mosquitoes, Marshall, TX has their annual fire ant festival every October. Only in Texas would anyone celebrate something so wicked!

Originally Posted by awalkinrain

And if you're not into rattlesnakes or mosquitoes, Marshall, TX has their annual fire ant festival every October. Only in Texas would anyone celebrate something so wicked!

Originally Posted by bluejay432000

Marshall people are just a little crazy. They are a little to close to Louisianna, I think.

Originally Posted by bluejay432000

That is the edge of nothingness! uGo on to Odessa, Pecos, Monihans, and see what is out there.

Originally Posted by po1911

don't forget Kermit I have a friend that lived there when he was a kid and always told me if they were going to give Texas a enema that is where they would stick the tube