Big Country Tour

The 8th Annual Barbecue Tour is officially in the books. The BBQ crew was small this year...which allowed us to cover a great deal of territory. We drove more miles (790) and visited more joints (20 1/2) than ever before.

Here are some tour highlights, by the numbers:

• 1 Bottle of Patron Anejo
• 2 Hotel rooms
• 3 Ironman participants
• 4 Total participants
• 5 Major wind farms in the area
• 6 Minimum number of joints per day
• 7 1/2 Maximum number of joints per day
• 9 Small colleges in tour towns
• 10 Dollars for best value tour stop
• 12 Major railways crisscross the area
• 20 1/2 Total joints visited
• 242 Minimum daily mileage
• 303 Maximum daily mileage
• 738 Turbines on wind farms in the area
• 790 Total tour mileage
• 1,150 Megawatts produced by wind farms in the area
• >250,000 Homes that could be powered by wind farms in the area
• 345,000 Goats in Texas, with the leading market in San Angelo
• 1,130,000 Sheep in Texas, with the leading market in San Angelo

Too bad the sheep and goat ranchers in the area care more about wool and mohair than mutton and cabrito! Some of the themes surrounding the Big Country tour were Energy (coal, oil, wind), Livestock (cattle, sheep, goats), Railroads, Rodeo, Mesquite, and Cornbread.