• The Great Retirement Roadtrip

    Sonora, Texas

    February 23 in the United States ⋅ 🌙 55 °F

    There is a line in the movie Castaway where the lady with angel wings on her truck is giving Tom Hanks character directions. She looks at desert all around and points and says, “…and that way you’ll find a whole lotta nothing all the way to Canada.” Well, in West Texas, there’s “a whole lotta nothing.” All day and the most interesting thing we saw was a pretty scary “truck stop”. I use the term loosely because, most are actually, pretty nice. We ended up in Sonora, Texas, (population 2,000) and did have dinner at Pit Stop BBQ. It is rather the 23rd Best BBQ in Texas. It was quite good. Tomorrow…Houston.Read more