#terrell texas

Please stay safe out there rn they’re at a barbershop on the past the Walmart off 80 in Forney.

Dallas Journal, Final Day

Had to get up even earlier than normal today, which sucked even more than normal, because I’d stayed up too late, packing my stuff and goofing off. How do you normies do this every day?

Most of my fellow trainees had left the night before, or were leaving very early that morning, but there were perhaps fifty of us left: one group doing one kind of extra training, and a second group doing bilingual training. I’d hoped Sam would be sticking around for one or the other, but she was nowhere to be found. So it goes.

The training we were doing was pretty minor, and pretty easy, and we were done by eleven that morning, and after gassing up the car, I was on the road

Things were running real smooth, guys, for a little while: I had actually written detailed directions down, and I was making some great time. 

Until I got to Terrell, Texas, a solid two hundred miles still to go, the road finally really opening up, breaking out of the congestion of Dallas. Good driving conditions. Which meant, of course, that there was a giant wreck way up the way, farther than I could see: three eighteen wheelers had somehow crashed themselves, and there was some kind of substance spilled, and so we sat for probably two hours, moving at an infuriating crawl. 

I finally got through the lines, speeding on my way, only to find a large stretch of the left lane blocked just outside Longview. We again began to crawl, and nearly almost immediately past that, the other lane was blocked, and more crawling ensued. I finally got home probably six hours after I left, which is about three more hours than it should have taken.