Category: Earlybird’s Travels

Due to so many stops and overnights there, I had become a creature of habit. First, there would be a gas-up at the Mobil station,

I rolled into my third pit stop for the day, hoping it was my last. Good ol’ Chip waved me in to an empty stall,

It’s always a blessing to see that “Welcome to New Mexico” sign just past Texline. It never ceased to amaze me how a seemingly arbitrary

You’re going to think me a little weird, but I had to get out of Dallas because of the heat (not to be confused with

Cruising along the flat, straight stretches of I-35 gave me plenty of time for a few reflections on the past seven weeks. I was remembering

I didn’t have to wait long…there was a mile-long coal train or a container-stacked flat-car freight rolling by every ten minutes. While it was still