Forgot about that one even though I drove through and slowed down yesterday. He wasn't even there, but I'll always slow down there too.

When I was living in Dallas, I bought a 1990 Mazda MX6 in December of 1989 and drove it home for Christmas. On the way back to Dallas, I got in with a Cadillac, a Mercedes and a BMW east of Tyler that were all Escort equipped and all driving over 90 mph. Drove that fast all the way to the Hwy 80 exit at Terrell. They kept driving that fast on 80, but I slowed down there.

Drove home one year on Memorial Day weekend and counted 36 police cars between Dallas and Ruston. Most were State Troopers. I drove slow that trip.

One year I was in the flow of traffic between Tyler and Longview doing about 80 mph. I looked in my side mirror and saw flashing lights in the right lane. Next thing I saw was a Corvette followed by one of those Texas Troopers in an IROC Camaro, passing me like I was sitting still. They had to be going over 100 mph. Maybe three miles down the road my little 80 mph group of traffic topped a hill and had to swerve over into the left lane because the trooper had pulled around the Corvette and cut him off in the right lane. The trooper and the other guy were still in their cars with the trooper's rear end actually sticking out into the left lane.

I always wondered if the Vette guy was wasted or something and never noticed the cop was behind him until he got next to him. These days I can't see a trooper doing that without more troopers being involved.

Since I moved back over in 2010, I was driving East and saw a plane land on the westbound side of I-20. Cop cars had passed me with their lights on, and when I got past the plane, I saw they had shut down that side so the plane could make an emergency landing.

Twenty-eight years of living in Dallas made for lots of trips back and forth. Lots of I-20 adventures stored in this head.