Hi Dave,

I've seen the signs for that approaching, then in, Amarillo. The place
is just off of I-40, and no, we've never stopped there. Only times

There used to be billboards up and down Route 66. And since Route 66
has its beginning in Chicago and terminus in Santa Monica I saw
several near my town since we were astraddle of Route 66.

Sounds like the Buc-ee's or South of the Border signs. When Steve's parents lived in Florida, we made a number of trips there. SotB signs
all up and down I-95!

Never met a Buc-ee's in person. I was off the road before they became
a "thing". But, when I was trailer-trucking I used to see the SOTB eye

We've stopped at Buc-ee's a couple of times, once just to check them out
and get gas, 2nd time to get something for the truck, a bbq sandwich and
gas. Wawa is invading eastern NC now but they're not nearly as big as
Buc-ee's, one of which is planned for Mebane, about 90 minutes west of
here.

pollution all over the highways in the East/Southeast. I stopped there just once and learned that it started as a semi-boolegging beer store serving the "dry" countied just across the state line in NC. From a
garage size (18 x 36) building known as South of the Border Beer
Depot. Business boomed. A few years later a 10-seat grill was added
and the business was re-named South of the Border Drive-In. And, like Topsy, "it jus' growed".

I can't remember what I expected to see when I stopped but I was not
ready for what I got.

We've stopped there as a rest stop several times, once to try their
Mexican restaurant (meh). Most often tho, we just go right past it to
the state welcome center just up (or down, depends on which way you're
going) the road a few miles.

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Just Guiness stout. They do offer one of the better bowls of chilli in Springfield.

You should know. Steve has ordered the TR chili a few times and has
said it's "ok but not as good as yours".

Dublin Pub's chilli is not to everyone's taste. Joe Rupnik got the
recipe when he bought Vic's Pizza. It's one of the last places you can
get a bowl of good old, greasy, Springfield tavern chilli. All of it
based on that served at a legendary place called "Lawson's" where I
never ate as it was gone before I was permitted to eat in a tavern.
But, the chilli lives on.

In probably a lot of memories also.


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Ruth
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