PIDCOKE - Driving north from Cop peras Cove to Gatesville FM 116 you' re never far from Fort Hood. Even when you're not driving alongside its bound aries, you know you're close to one of the largest military installations in the free world not only by what you see, but also by what you don't see.
A few miles out of Cove, you come to FM 580, and if you just feel like it you can detour to the town of Topsey, which was named for an early farmer's mule.