It's crazy how excited I got when my friend Jake Patterson texted me last night alluding to the fact that he was hungry. The craziest part is that it was a familiar and relatively routine text that gets passed around quite often late on a weekday, in which one of us has a large amount of schoolwork.
For my friends and I it comes from one of us muttering (or now texting) one small word...with a question mark usually attached. "West?" is all that needs to be said, and the answer is almost always yes. Oh and the word is almost always spoken past midnight. Except now we are at the point where Jake can just text me, "getting kinda hungry," like he did last night, and I know exactly what he is talking about.
West, Texas has become a landmark, or even more like a right of passage for Baylor students. There is a bakery called the Czech Stop (open 24/7) that makes the most delicious Kolaches you have ever tasted. In fact, if you google the word Kolache, the most searched item is "Kolaches in West, Texas." However, for my friends and I, food is arbitrary to the trip itself.
Well, okay, I shouldn't go that far. I mean these Kolaches are really freakin' good.
But, the 17 mile trip to West has yielded some of the greatest memories of my college career. So many hilarious moments, new friends made through the trip itself, and some of the most meaningful conversations with my closest friends. Each visit is unique in itself, the group, the music, the car, the conversations. And I have rolled with some seriously random groups before. Last week I went with my roommate Kevin Smith, my Maastricht traveling companion Kevin Beach (who tagged along via a tweet from Smitty) and my lacrosse/filmnerd buddy Will Meier. All in the car with one main thing in common, a delicious West experience. It truly brings people together.
Last night I had the privilege to accompany a first-time Wester, Clark Jones. I love taking people there for the first time. It reminds me of my first time as a Freshman and takes me back 3 1/2 years ago when everything was new to me. I even tried something new, a cream cheese/pumpkin Kolache. All I can say is YES.
The truth is, when I look back on a lot of awesome times in college, West was there. On my way to the airport to leave for the Netherlands, buying Call of Duty at midnight and playing it until 8 am...three years in a row, after so many amazing dates with Jillian up in Fort Worth, rolling in my footie pajamas in a trunk with Cory Hart and 6 others in the car, several Halloweens, and way too many nights with nothing better to do but adventure down highway 35 with the people I love the most.
It's places like West, Texas and the Czech Stop that I love the most about going to Baylor and it's those weird, random adventures that I will miss the most.
For my friends and I it comes from one of us muttering (or now texting) one small word...with a question mark usually attached. "West?" is all that needs to be said, and the answer is almost always yes. Oh and the word is almost always spoken past midnight. Except now we are at the point where Jake can just text me, "getting kinda hungry," like he did last night, and I know exactly what he is talking about.
West, Texas has become a landmark, or even more like a right of passage for Baylor students. There is a bakery called the Czech Stop (open 24/7) that makes the most delicious Kolaches you have ever tasted. In fact, if you google the word Kolache, the most searched item is "Kolaches in West, Texas." However, for my friends and I, food is arbitrary to the trip itself.
Well, okay, I shouldn't go that far. I mean these Kolaches are really freakin' good.
But, the 17 mile trip to West has yielded some of the greatest memories of my college career. So many hilarious moments, new friends made through the trip itself, and some of the most meaningful conversations with my closest friends. Each visit is unique in itself, the group, the music, the car, the conversations. And I have rolled with some seriously random groups before. Last week I went with my roommate Kevin Smith, my Maastricht traveling companion Kevin Beach (who tagged along via a tweet from Smitty) and my lacrosse/filmnerd buddy Will Meier. All in the car with one main thing in common, a delicious West experience. It truly brings people together.
Last night I had the privilege to accompany a first-time Wester, Clark Jones. I love taking people there for the first time. It reminds me of my first time as a Freshman and takes me back 3 1/2 years ago when everything was new to me. I even tried something new, a cream cheese/pumpkin Kolache. All I can say is YES.
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| Pure satisfaction for the first time. |
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| My first Diptic. Sweet app. |
The truth is, when I look back on a lot of awesome times in college, West was there. On my way to the airport to leave for the Netherlands, buying Call of Duty at midnight and playing it until 8 am...three years in a row, after so many amazing dates with Jillian up in Fort Worth, rolling in my footie pajamas in a trunk with Cory Hart and 6 others in the car, several Halloweens, and way too many nights with nothing better to do but adventure down highway 35 with the people I love the most.
It's places like West, Texas and the Czech Stop that I love the most about going to Baylor and it's those weird, random adventures that I will miss the most.
yuppp pretty much miss those West trips everyday.
ReplyDeleteand duh - it's always my first stop when I get back to Waco.
March excursion... West??