Before we get into the food, let me preface this section with a bit of history. In the small town of Lexington, TX, there’s an unassuming barbecue joint, open only on Saturdays, called Snow’s BBQ. Snow’s received national acclaim after Texas Monthly magazine (the Long Star State’s self-proclaimed barbecue authority) named it the best barbecue in the state of Texas in 2008. Since then, Snow’s has received celebrity-like status, largely due to their no-nonsense approach, and their pitmaster, an 86-year-old lady named Tootsie Tomanetz. She’s the custodian at the local high school, and after the Friday night football games, begins cooking at 02:00. Formerly, she was the owner of and pitmaster at a meat market in Giddings, TX.

Thursday morning, we picked up Trevor, drove to the CLT airport, and made our way through security. Just after arriving at our gate, we promptly got a notification our flight was delayed. So, we settled in with a bagel, and finally boarded our plane about 40 minutes later than scheduled. We managed to flag down a man with a golf cart to chauffeur us through most of the Houston airport, then we took a shuttle to the rental car garage.