I made friends with three sisters from Sydney, two of them lived here for a couple years. They said that our trees were smaller, but over all it looked very similar. Especially in the hill country..
You are talking about the Atchafalaya Basin Bridge in Louisiana, I have made that drive from Texas to Alabama/Florida like 6 times.. My wife always says that's where she is hiding my body when I finally piss her off enough
Yeah... that's its name, the Atchafalaya Basin Bridge, what an AMAZING bridge it is. We drove all night and day to get over it, spans the length of almost 2 LARGE states, and some parts I was doing a comfortable 130mph in a brand new Maxima I hired, the car made it seem like we were doing about 90mph. But that's why my mate kept reminding me about the rails and gators. I still recall the span of it, it amazed me... as far as your eyes could see, highway driving all day (& night), an average of 80mph... bridge, bridge, bridge, namely, the same bridge. It was like driving from Melbourne to almost Brisbane on a short bridge standing over swampland. IT IS MASSIVE. And the long straight rounds of country Texas are the longest and straightest I've ever seen on green land.
Another memorable thing about that highway was that it passes over the Suwannee River. When I was a kid in primary school here, we use to have classroom singalongs a couple of times a week with an AM Radio program aired by the ABC. The teachers would mike-up the radio to a large speaker in the room, and a woman's voice on the radio would conduct the classroom through numerous songs that the kids would all sing to. It was either a State-wide or Nation-wide thing going on in many State primary schools back then, it wasn't just my school doing it. One of the songs was called "Way down upon the Suwannee River", and when I saw the tiny little road sign over its crossing bridge, I couldn't believe it. I thought about it for a few seconds trying to recall where I'd seen that name before, then it hit me. I told my mate I wanted to go back and have a look. We drove for MILES before I could make a U-turn on an exit ramp, but I finally returned. Couldn't believe it took me almost 50years to finally stand on the banks of the Ol' Suwannee River. That was friggen neat.
The girls are right, if you've seen the hill country of Texas, then you've seen about 50% of the State of Victoria in Australia, that's no joke. Your wife would be "placing" your body there, not so much "hiding" it. Once placed, the gators would make it disappear in no time.
If I were to live in America, Texas would be the place, it would be like I relocated to a warm lush Victoria. I loved the place and its people, great people the Texans, they're like Aussies in more ways than one.
"So fine are the women there..."
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