One of my dear friends visited over the last few days, on a road trip of her own. It’s not a very long trip from Austin, Texas, to Oklahoma City, but her journey seemed a bit like Dorothy’s travels in The Wizard of Oz. I-35 is her yellow brick road, and Dallas her Emerald City.
Seattle […]

When I was in college in Houston, I drove a car that my dad had treated well and handed down to my wild younger sister who handed it down to me when she bought her own vehicle. Now, if I had gotten it straight from Dad, that would have been one thing. But inheriting the […]

Horatio Nelson Jackson’s trek across the United States was a very costly venture, what with all the high-priced car parts and repairs, and with one or two price-gouging gasoline vendors who knew what Jackson would pay for his car’s life blood. But somewhere in the middle of the country, Jackson had to invest a little […]

So, even though Kerouac didn’t have the Interstates to drive on, he at least had a series of US and state highways to get him where he was going. Even when he was touring Mexico, there were well defined motor ways. And before Kerouac took his journeys, my Oklahoma neighbors to the north still had […]