dolari | In that "I was dropped on my sense of humour a lot as a toddler" way.

MAP GEEKINESS RULES!

I know where Mud City is now, thanks to the Texas State Library! Turns out they finally posted all the old maps from the 1940s, and I was just looking at them, and POOF - Mud City!

Y'all prolly don't remember two years ago when I was living with Erin, but all along the road going to her house, were a string of ghost towns. I passed Hornsby Bend, Mud City, Dunlap, and Deatsville virtually EVERYDAY for six months. I managed to find Hornsby Bend, Dunlap and Deatsville pretty easily, but I could not, for the LIFE of me, find out where Mud City was.

Turns out, what I thought was Hornsby Bend, IS Mud City. And Hornsby Bend is just east of there.

Although it really doesn't matter anymore (it's all Austin, now), meant a lot to me in a purely Ghost Town Way. The map is here, if anyone really wants to see it (Mud City is in the far right, east of town) - http://www.tsl.state.tx.us/cgi-bin/aris/maps/maplookup.php3?mapnum=5008

Which leads to MAP GEEKINESS Part Two:

http://www.tsl.state.tx.us/cgi-bin/aris/maps/maplookup.php3?mapnum=1891

I've been looking for this set of maps for TWENTY YEARS. Ever since I learned about the Camino Real. Basically, it's a turn-by-turn map of the Camino Real through Texas as checked by a rofessional cartograher, looking for the route. It's the maps they based the granite markers you can see in Closetspace on.

Now they're not perfect (Zively and I disagree on the path of the road from San PEdro Springs to Pleasanton), but they're from a guy who did more on-the-ground research that I could ever do, thanks to Texas Property Shoot-first-ask-questions-later Laws..

And I have copies being sent to my PO Box for $12.

Hot damn! :D