Saturday, August 13, 2005 :::
being a small town our restaurant choices were limited, so it was not uncommon for us to drive a bit for a meal.
fairly often we'd make plans to drive somewhere for lunch, then drive a bit further for dinner, and then end up spending the next day in another place.
there's this pizza joint in kingsville called young's pizza, and they have these ~awesome~ sandwiches - with strips of steak with mozerella cheese topped with sauteed onions and mushrooms. trust me, it is ~totally~ worth driving 70 miles.
and if we had lunch there, since corpus is only 40 of 50 miles further, we'd opt to head to landry's for dinner. now it's true that we have a landry's in the valley, but the landry's in corpus is a boat down at the end of a pier! awesome and ~totally~ worth the drive.
so then we'd wind up thinking that the riverwalk at night is always fun so we'd drive the 150 miles up there. we'd get convinced that seaworld was the next logical step, so we'd get a room and then call my mom to tell her where we were & how we got there.
more than once she flipped out, but oh well.
after spending most of the next day at seaworld we'd decide we have a long drive back home and try to leave, but since fredericksburg is only 70 miles away we can practically smell the cream puffs! so we'd head up there for dinner (read: to raid bakeries).
after gorging ourselves on various pastries we'd eventually begin the 300 mile trek back home.
so see? driving across town and into the barrio for tacos ~is~ reasonable!
::: posted by tinafish at 3:19 PM :::