The first time I passed through New Mexico I was in a hurry. The second time I was coming from a blizzard that marooned me in Amarillo, Texas for a few days that kept me in a hotel room eating beef jerky and drinking sink water. Both times I was more than happy to see […]
On The Road: Tucumcari and Route 66
The road to the Southwest was paved with mosquitoes, humidity that made my clothes stick to me, and no way of cooling down because my AC compressor took a shit in Florida. I drove through the Florida Panhandle, Alabama, Mississippi, Lousiana and Texas before I felt any relief from the endless moisture that suffocated me […]