Dec 23, 2012
Christmas Tour De Texas v. 36.0
I'm literally reposting my exact post from last year. Once you read it, you'll realize how amazing and semi-insane it is that my parents have now done this for 36 years. It's kind of awesome of them.
Every year my family and I embark on a Christmas sojourn that rivals almost any road trip on earth. We started the Tour De Texas Today. Here's the route:
Every year my family and I embark on a Christmas sojourn that rivals almost any road trip on earth. We started the Tour De Texas Today. Here's the route:
First, we leave from Houston (1) and head to Ozona, TX (2), which is where my dad is from. We enjoy Christmas Eve dinner and festivities with that side of the family. Then, Christmas morning, we have some "Santa time" and head to my mother's hometown, Pampa, TX (3) in time for Christmas dinner and festivities with that side of the family. A couple days later we'll hit the road back to Houston (1), which is the hypotenuse of the whole thing and the most excruciatingly long drive ever in the history of all time.
According to Google Maps, the total drive time is approx. 23 hours. RIDICULOUS. But, it's broken up over several days.
We've done this lit-relly every Christmas of my life. I honestly don't know another way. My parents started this tradition before they had kids and it kind of just stuck. It's going to be weird one day when I don't do it anymore (assuming I have my own family one day, but we aren't really anywhere close to that happening). I love seeing EVERY SINGLE person in my family for Christmas, it's great.
If you don't hear much out of me...that's what I'm doing. I plan to attempt mobile blogging...
So, what inefficient absurdity does your family insist upon at Christmas time?
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