Yours truly did not want to pay big bucks, at Lowe’s, for coarse sand or fine gravel (for cement block walkway project). A reasonably reliable source gave me specific directions to an independent retailer. Miles from my home in Polk County, I drove through Liberty County into Hardin County. Thirty miles from home and forty minutes into the trip, I turned around at a highway department gravel site (and I did not “help myself” to their property). I never saw a sign for a retailer!! In total: Fifty-nine miles and one-hour-thirty-five minutes trip. True story: In the four-plus years I’ve lived in Livingston, Texas, I have NEVER ventured this far, nor  this long, from home. (Lengthy shopping trips are an exception, of course. I mean an hour, or more, random driving.)