"East until you smell it, south until you step in it"

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Entry from August 18, 2006 
“Go east until you smell it, south until you step in it” (Texas  directions)
 
The classic directions to go from California to Texas is to go “east until  
you smell it, south until you step in it.” 

The directions were used in a  joke involving Dallas and Fort Worth (below) 
from at least 1973. 


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From:  bsutesch 
Date:  Mon, Sep 23 1991  1:28 pm 

How do you go from Texas Tech to Aggieland? 
Go east until  you smell it, then go south until you step in it!  

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From:  JMH 
Date:  Thurs, Jan 30 1992  3:26 pm 

Californian’s way of finding Texas 
“Go east until you smell  it, then south until you step in it.” 

1 February 1973, Upland (CA)  News, part 2 (News of the Valley), pg. 1: 
A major Dallas industry is  Fort Worth jokes. Dallas people like to tell 
visitors about the stranger,  stranded in North Texas, who asked directions to 
Fort Worth. “Wal,” he was told,  “you just keep on walkin’ south until you 
smell a barnyard. That’s Dallas. Then  you turn west and go on until you step in 
it. That’s Fort Worth.” 

30  September 1983, Los Angeles Times, pg. D15: 
Nobody at Florida State  seems to like anyone at Florida, which is about 100 
miles east and 50 miles  south. A traveler asking directions to Gainesville is 
told to “go east until you  smell it and south until you step in it.” 

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