Hey, watch this!

(Or, Hold my beer a minute.)

Zip Code 75932 belongs to Burkeville, Texas. The Sabine ATV Park is near Burkeville.

You can go here http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=burkeville+texas&qpvt=burkeville+texas&qpvt=burkeville+texas&FORM=IGRE#a

for pictures in and around Burkeville, or here http://www.bing.com/search?q=sabine+atv+park&qs=n&form=QBLH&pq=sabine+atv+&sc=8-11&sp=-1&sk=&ghc=2&cvid=9a022b28eb2545238260b78d56ff3719

for pictures of the ATV park. You will see pictures of people doing dumb things, about what you would figure, putting four-wheelers together with people, mud and water. Lots of stuck four-wheelers.

Taking a four-wheeler through a moderate amount of water and/or mud is a fun thing. But why in the world would somebody want to drive an ATV off into water or mud that quite possibly is over the engine intake or even the top of the vehicle? Just to see how deep the water is? Hell, wade off into the water and find out. A four-wheeler will not get stuck or inundated if it’s sitting on the bank. Seems to me shoes or boots full of water are a lot easier taken care of then a drowned four-wheeler. A lot less costly to fix, too. You can get new shoes or boots at WalMart, but WalMart doesn’t fix swamped four-wheelers.

I first learned about Burkeville in early 1965, a month or so more than 50 years ago. Some other soldiers in my AIT company at Fort Polk, La., said they had been to this little town across the border in Texas. Like me, they were Texas boys, and, like me, needed a Texas fix to kind of get rid if six months of Louisiana.

The next Saturday afternoon, I went to Burkeville with several other Texas boys, as well as a soldier from Philadelphia and one from Cleveland. What we found was Burkeville had a few dozen young ladies who knew all the stories and lives of local high school boys and who enjoyed the attention paid by another bunch of young men only a couple of years older.

There were many Saturday afternoons and nights spent at burger joints and such. Seeing and talking to Texas girls was a good thing.