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”
Creede back to Valley Forge
Memoirs of a Young Wanderer — Part Two Trip 4 (Continued) New Trip: Creede, The Sawmill It took us a half day to unbolt the differential on my car, pull it out, and bolt in the new “used” one. By early afternoon we were on the road again — heading into the big “D” (Dallas)Continue reading “Creede back to Valley Forge”
Copperhill-Creede
Parts of this section are a repeat after a long hiatus. Memoirs of a Young Wanderer The Copperhill Gang Tennessee, the views from the high mountain peaks, and the woods just across the back pasture with all its mysterious trails and glades kept calling — memories of childhood, constantly rumbling, kept calling. The electric streetcarsContinue reading “Copperhill-Creede”
Map of a Mountain Man 