Texas - BBQ and traffic problems

Having lived in Texas for a couple of years, I can safely say that you have to work at it to find bad BBQ.  We ended up eating in a truck stop in Longview, TX, at Texas Best Smokehouse, and the food was fantastic.

Honestly, after that meal, the rest of Texas is a long blur of heavy traffic (I-820 in Fort Worth was jammed even on a Saturday afternoon!), and traffic wrecks.  We watched one poor UT co-ed do a 180, bounce off a guardrail (likely saving her life), then do two doughnuts, and come to rest in the slow lane just outside of Childress, TX.  While the wife and kid sat in the car, I enjoyed the feeling of a 100 degree Texas morning on the side of the road waving 18-wheelers into the left lane while another guy beat on her transmission until he could get the car in shape to be rolled out of the way of traffic.  Leaving a couple of orange cones behind to mark the nasty oil slick and the shaken but unhurt co-ed, we rolled all the way to New Mexico before stopping again.  This time, it was for a US Mail truck making the Jacksonville-L.A. run that happened to catch fire while we enjoyed the hospitality of the NM Welcome Center.  By the time we were out of restroom, I-40 westbound had been closed and we were stuck in an inchworm line of traffic in a detour around the wreck.  So if you sent a letter by US Mail from Florida to California this week, you might want to check to see if it go there OK....look at all that mail on the side of I-40, being soaked by the water trucks!