What's amazing about Denton County, and really everything along I-35W, is the way you can be in the "country" while the thick of a big city or suburb just fifteen miles to the east. Lewisville is a town of around 100,000 residents. Justin, to the west, boasts barely 2000. Lewisville's agricultural roots are hard to see amongst the concrete and brick; Justin is surrounded by farmland even all these years after the Texas Motor Speedway was built.
We decided, while in Justin, that we needed to stop by the Justin Boots Discount stores. We walked out with a pair of black, smooth ostrich skin cowboy boots for Randy, at about half what we'd get them for in a regular boot store elsewhere.
From there, we headed north into Fort Worth to Cabela's - not for camping or hunting gear, but for bison bratwurst and buffalo burgers for lunch.
One last thought about this brief trip. It's certainly a reality check to look at what new homes are going for in Denton County. Looked to us like homes that might go for $200,000 or more here in Austin were going for, at minimum, $140,000 in the Justin/Argyle area.
Nothing like a return to the People's Republic for sticker shock!
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