Even Moses Got Excited When He Saw the Promised Land

In the immortal words of Lyle Lovett, "That's right, you're not from Texas/ But Texas wants you anyway." WTOP reports that a 13 year old boy from Jetersville, Virginia, loaded up the family truck with food and his dog, hitched up a trailer carrying two horses, and drove some 1,300 miles to Texas. Yeah, buddy, that's right! This native Texan figures that young Wyatt McLaughlin was just returning the pickup to its ancestral homelands. Apparently, video surveillance cameras in Mount Pleasant -- Mount Pleasant, Texas, that is -- caught the boy as he was fillin' er up. He was found just outside of the Dallas-Fort Worth area in Weatherford, the Peach Capital of Texas, where he intended to perform in the Posse Frontier Days rodeo. The Posse constitution holds that the rodeo brings together people ”to foster interest among its members in keeping alive the true traditions of the old west, a sacred heritage of all Texans; to promote good fellowship, good sportsmanship and a greater interest, both social and civic, in their community” and ”to assist the high sheriff, upon his request, to quell a riot”. It's a calling! Parents just don't understand.