A Scary Drive !

We started from our home Austin at 6pm on friday and were kinda thrilled by some of the sunset scenes we had met while crossing through old Texas towns with people wearing cowboy hats, jeans and long boots...people riding old vintage cars....ferrying horses and buffaloes...old cotton mills , huge agricultural tractors on farms....old wooden stores....small farming aircraft taking off the fields...big texan buffaloes seen grazing on vast green farms etc.

traffic was little..not a typical US state highway ..our new dodge SUV was cruising at 65 miles per hour on Texas 183 along Guadalupe river....It was fast getting cold and dark, .just then we noticed a small town called Luling, texas with very few houses and restaurants around....we decided to stop and pick up some dinner as we weren't sure if we will get any restaurants later in the drive. After dinner, we started our journey back to our destination i.e Corpus Christi. I was seated at the front right next to my friend Ismail who was driving the car.
It was roughly about 8 pm when we started our drive and as soon as we were out of Luling, some wierd scenes started treating my eyes....the view outside was pitch dark on either side of the road, all i could see was the road right in front of our car illuminated by headlights. After every few miles, I was seeing a sign boards with names of a cemetry pointing towards the field on both sides of the road.......that sight started making me think and heart beat faster.....as we drove along, i continued to see many more cemetries on the road..we were driving through one of the largest graveyard of texas...one cemetry for every 2 mins of drive...and i dared to turn my eyes through the side window... that drive made me revisit memories of my childhood the day when my grandma passed away, when I had been through very frightening events which makes me still think if there was some external force which was controlling it all...i still find it hard to to rubbish it away as mere coincidence. As we were 6 of us in the car, we tried to cheer up the moment by talking some jokes, playing some games....but i found it hard to take it off my mind...then suddenly one sign board comes in front of us which read 'cliff-ton church'... Ismail was quick enough to show that to us...most of us tried to overcome that fear...but i continued to see many more cemeteries along the highway...we roughly crossed about 12 cemeteries along our drive from 8pm to 11pm and finally when we arrived at sea shore, illuminated flyovers, windmills, skyscrapers of downtown started appearing and I was through that fear.
Nevertheless, that drive we had between Luling and Corpus along Tx 183 was one of the scariest drives i have been through and i will continue to remember that forever...