Generally, before we go off on some adventure, I
do some research about
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the area and decide what I want to see, alternatives in
case we can’t find what we’re looking for, and of course places to eat, stay,
shop, and so forth. Occasionally we’ll run across something to see that is not
within my usual interests. I dearly love old movies in the genres of scifi,
horror/monsters, crime, and comedy. The blood baths, touted as horror movies,
that pass for entertainment find me less than curious. On this trip we were on
a quest to find a 19th to 20th century pattern house
(they were ordered from Sears, shipped out on the railroad, and put together on
your own land) that had, incidentally, been used in one of the Texas Chain Saw
Massacre movies. We didn’t find the house we were looking for, but we did find
some tiny towns, and historical markers that piqued our interest, and just by
chance, a movie set.
