Post by rhygar on Apr 11, 2022 21:00:58 GMT
Wonderful idea - never thought to use Google Maps or whatever to find these things! I wanna go do a runthrough and track myself on Street View now!!
I'm finding here and there the books don't tally precisely with the real world. Like the Balmorhea rest stop from FW2 paragraph 281.
‘There’s a rest stop here,’ replies Haskell, pointing to the map at a place on Interstate 10 that is halfway between Fort Stockton and a town called Brogado. ‘There’s no knowing if there’s still any gas in its storage tanks but it’s our only hope. It looks like a 25-mile-drive—do you think you can make it?’
you crawl the twenty-three miles from Fort Stockton to the Balmorhea rest stop that Haskell found on your map. It is located at the entrance to a pass through the Barrilla Mountains and at first glance it appears to have suffered extensive damage in the recent storms. You bring the roadster to a halt with your fuel tank virtually empty, and it is with great trepidation that you and Sergeant Haskell go to inspect the fuel storage tanks while Kate and the others watch the road.
Of the eight underground fuel tanks located beneath the gas station area, only one looks promising. Of the others, six are empty and one is contaminated with diesel oil. A coded security valve locks the access pipe to the tank and, after a brief examination, you realize that the code must be cracked if you are to get at the contents. Any attempt to break off or cut through the valve would be sure to cause a spark that would blow the tank, and whoever was tampering with it, sky high.
The one actually in Balmorhea is pretty small.
But the one on the I-10 is a better candidate. See below.
And Brogado (where Marine Gunter gets shot) is not easy to find on the maps.
