As I write this I am currently sitting in a hotel room in Big Lake, Texas. Never mind what year it is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The name of the hotel is \u201cThe Derrick Inn\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I call it \u201cThe Derelict Inn\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It isn\u2019t a bad hotel, really. It just has the misfortune of being located in a town that is totally out in the middle of nowhere. Big Lake may have a big lake, but despite being located in Texas that\u2019s the only thing that\u2019s big in Big Lake.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Apparently they used to measure towns by how many horses they had tied up at the local saloon. Hence the term \u201cOne Horse Town\u201d. Nowadays I think you\u2019re just supposed to replace the word \u201chorse\u201d with \u201cstoplight\u201d. Big Lake is a two stoplight town.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
2,885 citizens inhabit Big Lake, Texas. According to the flier on the wall it has 11 churches. That\u2019s one church for every 262 people. Not counting three heathens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Of the eleven churches, three are Baptist, one is Catholic, one is Methodist, one is Pentecostal, and one is Mexican. They\u2019ve also got your Apostolic, First Assembly, Church of Christ, and Faith Community churches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If you\u2019re Lutheran you have to drive to Rankin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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