1. There's ALWAYS a tattoo parlor open somewhere.
2. Sitting outside on warm summer nights and listening to the hum of the drunk drivers, crossing the rumble strip.
3. The Bean Tree. (coffee house in cove)
4. The Kettle. It's like a waffle house, only without the classy atmosphere.
5. You can see every car known to man here. And some that aren't.
6. I love the smell of cow shit in the morning.
7. Greywar once lived here.
8. Running the back roads.
9. Dodging drunk drivers whilst running the back roads. See #2.
10. Austin
11. A large and varieted assortment of exotic strippers. And by exotic, I mean they definitely don't look like anyone you would normally expect to strip. (No, I don't go to those clubs, but by golly it's just that exciting kind of a town!)
12. The police here in Cove take a personal interest in your life, and wish to learn a very great deal about you, out of concern for your well-being.
13. With the high murder rate, overpopulation is never an issue.
14. Blowing up cows with a tank. (or so I hear)
15. Do you know the scene in Big Lebowski where he says "Do you want a toe? I can get you a toe in 15 minutes."? You can do that here.
16. The totally wonderful dating scene. Anyone can get laid here. Of course finding someone who's single may be a bit of a challenge.
17. Army health care. Worth every penny you pay for it.
18. Zombie deer.
19. The chance to show children a corpse and/or a gunshot wound.
20. Being mere minutes away from the social and cultural center of the area, Lampasas.
21. The local emphasis on the fine arts.
22. I was able to buy an anvil here. How cool is that?
23. Alcohol is now legal and available for sale, damned near everywhere.
24. A wealth of establishments from which you can purchase all sorts of goods, like Walmart, Target, Super Walmart, HEB, Action Pawn Shop, the Lampasas Super Walmart.............
25. 24 hour Bail/Bond service.
26. The fact that technically this is Texas.
27. There are over one book stores within a fifty mile radius of my house.
28. Korean folk. I just like 'em. Not pissin' around. They're cool.
29. Yakimandu.
30. One of the few places that actually sells Lincoln Wax. In the career can no less.
31. The plethora of ways to get from one place to another. You can take 190 east OR west.
32. The chance to meet new gate guards every day during random vehicle inspections.
33. Driving slowly by the gates blaring Freebird on my stereo, after getting out.
34. Getting my language practice in at the gas station and the dry cleaners.
35. Topsey Exotic Ranch. Watch out for the camel. He bites.
36. The ready availability of amazingly cheap housing.
37. The variety of flora and fauna, including but not limited to scrub cedar, prickly pear cactus, other kinds of cactus, erm....cactus, fire ants, carpenter ants, cow ants, killer bees, red wasps, yellow jackets, scorpions, brown recluses, cottonmouths, rattlesnakes.........
38. Deer dodgeball.
39. Skunk dodgeball.
40. Armadillo dodgeball.
41. Lots and lots of different local resteraunts. I wonder how they sell their meat so cheap?
42. Mel's.
43. Who knew that cows could be so skinny and still live?
44. Same question but applied to drugged up prostitutes.
45. Only an hour and a half away from the Dr. Pepper museum and the Texas Ranger museum in Waco.
46. Dr. Pepper
47. Pleasantly warm summers, lasting from only March until November.
48. The wonderful attitude that local shop owners have towards soldiers, always happy to see them, always courteous, and never trying to take advantage of them or overcharge them or cheat them in any way.
49. RIch local history, including the now infamous Luby's massacre.
50. Did I mention that Greywar once lived here?