Road Stripe Shortage could have Texas Drivers Weaving

A stripe paint shortage has the Texas Department of Transportation scrambling to find new sources of paint for roadwork already scheduled. More from KVUE TV in Austin.

Here's the Top Ten Ideas for Striping Texas Highways.

• #10 Arrest Spray Paint Taggers and put them on the road gang
• #9 Start a Jobs program for out of work Painters. 
• #8 Field Trips for Art Students 
• #7 Now that DVDs have taken over… use old rental video tape. 
• #6 Junior High Kids with big shoes and to-go mustard packets 
• #5 Yellow Duct Tape 
• #4 Specially Trained Seagulls dropping in... Droppings! 
• #3 Delay openings 'til fall and use yellow and orange leaves 
• #2 Re-use Crime Scene yellow tape.
• #1 Forget the stripes and drive crazy like overseas.

Links
Free Texas Map
Downloadable Texas Map
Texas Atlas and Gazetteer
Going to Texas: Five Centuries of Texas Maps
The Roads of Texas - 5th Edition

Spiral Jetta: A Road Trip through the Land Art of the American West (Culture Trails)

Spiral Jetta is not your everyday family road trip book. It’s more of a journal of a college age woman using a road trip home to visit some larger than life art along the way. The title is a clever combination of Spiral Jetty and Volkswagen Jetta. Her car is the Jetta. The Spiral Jetty is one of her stops along the way, a monumental earthwork near Utah’s Salt Lake. Author Erin Hogan journals her trip in a way that draws you along with her. Not too many “road geeky” travelogue items here. It’s the people she meets, the colorful places she meets them and the trouble of finding oversized art with poor directions and a car not made for back roads. You may even learn about art along the way to Sun Tunnels, Lightning Field, Roden Crater and Double Negative. Bring along a soda. It’s mighty dry in Texas, Utah, Nevada, New Mexico and Arizona.

Links
Buy the book, Spiral Jetta
Sun Tunnels
Lightning Field
Roden Crater
Double Negative