So, we headed out to Itasca, which is about an hour and a half Southwest of Dallas, to the farm of Don Mayfield. Don was an electrical engineer for 40 years with the local electric company. He retired early and he and his wife traveled for a couple of years but quickly bored of it. So they bought 500 acres of farmland and became farmers. It’s just the two of them—no other help. They’re in their seventies.
The scout went great. The weather is simply incredible. Dallas can be beastly hot and humid, like South Beach without the ocean breeze. And it’s been raining for weeks. But this entire week is supposed to be low eighties and low humidity. There’s not a cloud in the sky and even though most of us are wearing jeans and long sleeve shirts to protect ourselves from the sun, we’re not hot.
Of course, we all get sunburned anyway.
On the way home we stop outside Fort Worth at the Stockyards, which used to be real stockyards and is now mostly touristy. There were lots of bikers, tourists and western gear shops. Don and Sherman both bought hats.
The sun is strong here and you really need to wear a hat if you’re going to spend several days in the middle of a wheat field.
And I'll tell you one thing. Texans are proud of being from Texas. Never seen anything like it.
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