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But all of this sounds lovely! Why does publicity for the place only go on about the bad bits?
> Tyler, home of the Tyler rose, is at the northern
> end of this area.
Would that be the Yellow Rose of the song?
> To the south is the part of Texas you see in TV.
> The land scrubland, rising and
> falling about once a mile, but gently rising as you
> go west. Hot and dry.
> Goats, tough cattle, jack rabbits, snakes, mule
> deer.
Yes, that's what we get told about. Rather like Prax. You only go there if you've been driven out of anywhere anyone in their right mind would actually choose to live.
> This area is really desolate. Think Vulture's
> Country. Most hills are bald rock. Big Bend State
> Park is in the
> mountains. It is visually stunning, kind of like a
> graveyard is. It gets cold here at night.
And more of the same, if more photogenic.
> Finally, we reach El Paso. Did you know that El
> Paso is half-way from Austin to Los Angeles?
Since I have no idea where either of those two places are (in America, at a guess?), no, I didn't know that.
> So, there it is. Did I mention that it is
> pleasantly warm most of the year?
No. You've mentioned a few temperatures, I think, all of which translated as "unbearably hot" to me.
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