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b"We've all been there at one time or another: at the bitter end of a long road trip, eyes getting heavy as the miles click by, thinking it would be a good idea to pull over but fighting the urge because we want to get to our destination. While understandable, that decision can have deadly consequences, especially in a state as large as Texas, where the next exit, let alone the next town can be miles apart. From that need for rest behind the wheel has come TxDOT's Safety Rest Area program and with it, as TxDOT's Andy Keith told me, the ever-growing collection of unique-yet-functional roadside monuments to all things Texas."