About the Logo

A couple of weeks ago, I somehow stumbled across the website MapFight where you can generate area comparisons between different "countries" (though continents and subdivisions of countries are allowed as well).

I showed it to my travel buddies, in particular I showed "Texas vs France".

Patsy -- who you will meet in a later post -- thought it would be a great t-shirt to wear one day while on the trip.

I wasn't so sure of the wisdom of that move, but I did think it would make a clever theme for a blog.

Thus Texas Takes On Europe was born!

Here's how Texas is doing so far:

Texas vs. France Texas is 1.26 times larger
Texas vs. United Kingdom Texas is 2.87 times larger
Texas vs. Switzerland Texas is 16.86 times larger

Of course, we know that cuisine-wise, France is far ahead of Texas; and mountain-wise, Texas can't hold a candle to Switzerland; and the UK has far more Hogwarts than Texas.

Texas is still BIGGER.

And here's a big shout-out to the unknown programmer who put MapFight together in the first place. Thanks, pardner!