The Last Leg of the Circumnavigation: West Virginia at night in 1955/56: a Wild Ride! And more car trouble! But first: A Lesson in Labor Relations and Other Complications During that second week at Ford, we started to work one morning and the car would not start. Maybe, it was the battery. It just wouldn’tContinue reading “HOME — Trip 7: Closing the Circle — Back to Tennessee”
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Cheyenne and a Thousand Lights — Only It Was Cattle
Things were pretty uneventful for a while. Although once in the middle of the night we were sailing along and came upon what looked like a million lights glowing in the highway ahead. A herd of cattle were strung out across the highway. That is one of the traffic hazards common to this area —Continue reading “Cheyenne and a Thousand Lights — Only It Was Cattle”
Texas-California and north, including the Hitchhiker
Texas Next, we headed for Texas. Now, you are probably beginning to think, ‘Don’t you ever stop at a motel and sleep?’ The answer is: no. First, we didn’t have enough money to afford a bed every night. At that rate we have burned through our cash in a week. So, we pretty much keptContinue reading “Texas-California and north, including the Hitchhiker”
On the Road, Again- includes brief first trip through Athens, Georgia
The lecture/interrogation probably didn’t take long, but given my state of anxiety it seemed to last half the night. After the lecture, he handed me a ticket the size of which wiped out all the funds for college tuition and books for the next school term. I had worked hard every day after class forContinue reading “On the Road, Again- includes brief first trip through Athens, Georgia”
