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Find myself still in the great state of Texas!
Roxanne Newman | Via Facebook
Be by my mother’s bedside in her final hours.
Ellen Rozneck Coulter | Via Facebook
Be at the gate when he got a weekend leave.
Martha Beimer | Via Facebook
Get back to Texas, and I kissed the ground when I did.
Richelle Nash, Grayson-Collin EC | Sherman
Get to Concan after heavy spring rains so I could float the Frio.
Lisa Holloway Fitzsimmons | Via Facebook
Texline on my way to Durango, Colorado. Driving across West Texas is an arduous journey and that was only a small step.
Charlotte Larson, Grayson-Collin EC | Celina
New Orleans for work so I could leave after the kids went to bed and in time to work a few hours the next day.
Tim Dickson | Via Facebook
Water-ski in the Arizona desert.
Laurel Herzog, Bartlett EC | Thorndale
See snow!
Marla Bentley | Via Facebook
From Milwaukee to Panama City, Florida, for spring break in 1971. It was my first girls-only trip with my two older sisters. I spent most of the drive in the back seat of my sister’s 1969 Ford Mustang Mach 1, which made for good times and great memories.
Julie Grall, United Cooperative Services | Joshua
Drive my future mother-in-law home from placing my future wife in her freshman college dorm. True story.
Larry Havel | Via Facebook
Get home to Texas.
Ed and Diane Smith, Guadalupe Valley EC | Cibolo
Atlanta to Dallas. 13 hours total. A red-eye.
Jon Runnells | Via Facebook
See my granddaughter, Alyssa Joule Sanchez, enter this world.
Elva Trevino, Magic Valley EC | Weslaco
After saluting the colors and walking down the gangplank, 28 hours, San Diego to Little Rock in 1970. IH-20 was not yet completed.
Tom Compton | Via Facebook
Sleep in my own bed after 10 nights in a different motel bed each night.
Dorothy Richey, Lamar Electric | Pattonville
Get to California from Texas.
Daryl Trammell | Via Facebook
To spend time with one of my best friends from high school before going away to college. We drove together, around and around our hometown, visiting key spots and talking until the sun came up.
Caryl Zimmerman, Central Texas EC | Kingsland
To see the ones I love.
Kevin Scarborough | Via Facebook
Get back to Texas from Georgia.
Gloria Morales-Boyd, Navasota Valley EC | Groesbeck
Get away from the family.
Glen Nowak | Via Facebook
Put Lubbock way, way, way back in my rearview mirror.
David Hundt, CoServ | The Colony
2,000 miles, Tacoma, Washington, to Wichita Falls.
John Shotter | Via Facebook
Ecstatically welcome and celebrate our just-born precious first grandchild, Aubrey.
Judy Hurst, Navasota Valley EC | Mexia
Virginia—couldn’t wait to leave.
Justin Burkitt | Via Facebook
Get through Texas.
Natalie Janisch, Hamilton County EC | Gatesville
Get to a deer lease to sleep in the deer stand.
Gary Voelkel | Via Facebook
Rescue a dog in Jasper, Alabama.
Leslie Moss, Bluebonnet EC | Elgin
To get from Texas to North Carolina in a 2001 Mustang convertible.
Eddie Fields | Via Facebook
Hang out with my 70-plus-year-old great Aunt Lillie Bell in my 1964 VW from Dallas to El Paso—alone. She smoked unfiltered Camels and taught me to drive a three-on-the column and make real Texas guacamole. I was 14.
Cel Clay, Bluebonnet EC | Austin
Get my bike broken in right.
Darrell Miller | Via Facebook
Haul eight goats in my minivan from Missouri to Texas.
Marcus Coblentz, Taylor EC | Hawley
Amarillo by morning.
Eddy Hamby | Via Facebook
Find a featured location that I saw in my Texas Co-op Power magazine.
Susie Palmer, MidSouth EC | Plantersville
Get away from a hurricane.
Odette Hill | Via Facebook
Waco and back home with my daughter and grandson to meet a swine transport delivery from Indiana and pick up my grandson’s 4-H livestock project.
Luann Stricklin Elliott, CECA | Brownwood
Pitch a tent and remember what the stars at night look like.
Robby Vance, Pedernales EC | Canyon Lake
See my girlfriend (now wife of 52 years) upon completion of Navy boot camp.
Carl Backes, CoServ | Denton
Many times to get back home to Beeville from Tulsa, Oklahoma, for Christmas.
Cathy Gannon Cummings, San Patricio EC | Kiefer, Oklahoma
Amarillo and got there by morning.
Steve Maclin, HILCO EC | Ovilla
Memphis, Tennessee, to do a workshop for teachers after doing a teachers’ workshop in Breckenridge, Texas.
Al Wilson, CoServ | Northlake
Get from Fort Worth to Lancaster, Pennsylvania, to marry my sweetheart, Sheila, in 1977.
Scot Swinehart, Concho Valley EC | Grape Creek
From El Paso on a family trip to Yuma, Arizona.
Martin Gonzales, Karnes EC | Poteet
Make it home in time to watch my grandson play baseball.
Cathy Jaynes, Wise EC | Aurora
Get to Buc-ee’s.
Gale Heep, Tri-County EC | Weatherford
Hug on my wonderful wife and kids.
Charles Howard, Pedernales EC | Canyon Lake
Get the mud sample to the lab.
Ronald Childers, Bandera EC | Pipe Creek
To a nice beach to get a first look at the sunrise.
Weiyao Shi, Pedernales EC | Austin
Hunt mule deer in Colorado. Came home empty-handed.
Jim Elam, San Patricio EC | Beeville
“I drove all night to get home to you.” My husband said this every time he walked through our door.
Diana Demski, Medina EC | Castroville
See the sun rise as soon as possible.
David Krietsch, Pedernales EC | Kyle
See my mom and dad, who lived 12 hours away.
Jean Brown, Trinity Valley EC | Tool
Attend my brother’s 50th birthday party. He was very surprised.
Shirley Karr, Greenbelt EC | McLean
Be on time for the celebration of the Good Friday services at Santa Cruz Catholic Church in Buda.
Marvin Reeves, Pedernales EC | Kyle
The Atlanta airport just in time to welcome home my sister from Desert Storm.
Don Upton, Central Texas EC | Kerrville
From Bartlesville, Oklahoma, to Austin to see our middle daughter graduate from the University of Texas on Saturday morning after our youngest daughter graduated from Bartlesville H.S. on Friday evening. There were two carloads of us.
Bill and Jeanette Stoltz, Bluebonnet EC | Burton
Make Amarillo by morning.
Dorothy J. Kabo, Guadalupe Valley EC | Seguin
See my almost 4-month-old daughter after driving from Virginia to South Texas subsequent to a three-month Navy deployment.
Richard V. Gonzalez, Trinity Valley EC | Forney
See the crack of dawn.
Gene Osborne, Wood Country EC | Mineola
Be with my mother as she passed away.
Margaret Hebert, Grayson-Collin EC | Whitewright
Be with my dying sister.
Janet Box, Sam Houston EC | Livingston
Get to my youngest daughter’s wedding in Ruidoso while my eldest daughter and son-in-law slept. We brought her wedding dress.
Pamela Draper, Bandera EC | Bandera
See the dark sky in Southwest Texas.
Scott Flatness, Bluebonnet EC | Austin
From Llano to San Diego with my wife and two sons, ages 4 and 6 months, when I was ordered to end my Christmas leave and report to my base so I could fly to the Philippines for an unscheduled meeting within 24 hours.
John McCalla, Central Texas EC | Kerrville
Be able to use my own bathroom.
Beatrice Tangeman, Pedernales EC | Leander
Get to the hospital to greet my first grandchild when she was born.
Norma Favaro, Central Texas EC | Fredericksburg
Watch my first grandchild, Austin, come into the world.
Sandy Gravenor, Pedernales EC | Dripping Springs
