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TEXAS HISTORY PROJECT
My walk across Texas would be a hard journey or expedition. It would probably start from Houston and end in El Paso. First day I got everything ready in my bag.
1. Sleeping bag
2. Clothes
3. 150$
4. My Dog Trip (he is a germen shepherd)
I got the keys of the car and open the engines. My first destination was to Austin. It’s about two hours. After an hour and a half I had refill my fuel so I refilled it. That cost was about 35$. Then I continued my way and I saw the Colorado River. I was away from Austin 15 minutes and the climate was hot. And it was by 5:00. I was hungry so I stopped at McDonald’s to get a burger. And rest there. I stayed there and stopped at a motel to sleep for night. I was hungry and Trip was too. So I got outside until I saw about 3 lizards. I killed them and then got some rocks and robbed them together to make a fire and cook it. I ate 1.5 Trip too. And got to my room and slept for the night. I got in the morning and I would probably go to Bryan station and stop at Waco. So I went there until I went there and stopped at desert to find cow. I saw one so I killed it and cooked it. I was in Bryan station right now. I didn’t stop there but I continued my way to temple I had to refill the fuel. When I stopped at temple it was raining and in the night. The bad news is a driver crashed my car and run away. OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I walked and walked and Trip was about to fall I saw a bike sell place. The bikes was about 50$ and I had 60$ left. So what to do I bought the bike and moved a mile until I felt sleepy. I stopped nearby a desert and opened my sleeping bag and slept until I woke up. It was really weird like about 50 lizards around me. I killed them ate two and trip ate three. And moved by my bike till Waco. I ate two lizards without trip seeing me when I was looking at hip I crashed a big rock and my bike got into two halves. I stayed at my place until a guy saw me and told that he wants to explore Texas and

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