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Although, according to Wiki, the other Colorado is entirely contained within Texas except for occasional input from normally-dry streams in NM.
I'll have to visit next time we go through Texas, although it will be hard to consider it more than a shadow of its mightier-although-much-dammed-and-abused cousin. 
Thanks again.
I've been schooled up on it now. 
North Mississippi, that is.
kick back in your lawn chair and take pot shots with your gun. 
are in top notch shape.
In rural Western Mass.
I live about the same distance from a paved road. My road is a combination of dirt and gravel. Sometimes it's actually in better shape than the asphalt road is.
I like that people can't go speeding up and down my road, although some people do it anyway. One day they'll end up 15 or 20 feet down over the side of the road in a creek at the bottom. 
Anyway, the only problem we ever had with a cracked windshield was because of a small rock out on the main (paved) road. The only dings and scratches on the body came from parking lots in the city. People opening their own doors. Stray shopping carts rolling into the sides.
I'm even expecting to someday see long scratches along the side put there by some disgruntled idiot who thinks it's OK to vandalize someone's SUV under the assumption that we are city dwellers, not people who live 20+ miles away on a dirt/gravel road at 1300 feet elevation.
They'll spray the road with waste oil laced with Dioxin, they found some left over from Times Beach at a bargain price. 
they are consistent with their bad decisions. 
People went from using aqueducts to digging wells for water, and they quarried the Coliseum for quick building materials. Yep, we're regressing. 
Just watch some teabaggers and libertarians start whining and yowling about that somehow crimps their "freedom" to speed.
Oh their "freedom-freedoms."
This machine is a COLD PLANER
It works much like a drum style floor sander to level out old, broken pavement, particularly that which has been repaved and/or repaired a lot, and may be too thick (makes the old cracks come to the surface). The stuff you see conveyored onto trucks and hauled away is called Recycled Asphalt Paving, and it makes a hard-topping for secondary roads, which packs a little harder than dirt and isn't so dusty. It can also be run back through an asphalt plant, with some new tar and perhaps aggregate mixed in, and then reapplied with a paving machine. There are machines that train together to do this continuously, but the headache factor has gotta be huge.
This is a RECLAIMER
It tills up the broken pavement, thin concrete, head-size rocks, sand, and mud, and can pump water or chemicals (primarily emusifiers) into the fine gravel the former road has become. Grading, drainage repair, and compaction will make a decent, hard-packed gravel road. RAP or gravel can be added in by spreading it before chewing the road up, building up the road and improving te quality of the "gravel paving". Beats chuckholes that'll take a wheel off and miles of washboard. Laying new asphalt over this makes a good, smooth road, that seems to stay together well, and it can be done next week, or a couple years down the road when sanity returns.
but I know what you mean
This is not a knock against good Texas progressives who are trying so hard...
BTW, I'm glad you replaced your Lone Star avatar. I DO stand with Texas women!... 
please call 1-800-555-1212"
With the appropriate phone number, of course.
Those paper signs used by candidates here, with the wires, (they have those everywhere?) should be just about perfect.
