TRIP TIDBITS
I promise that this will be the last blog about the trip West; I just had to record a few little items or incidents we saw that were interesting or amusing.
A couple of intriguing signs:
1) STATE PRISON! DO NOT PICK UP HITCHHIKERS (As if we ever would!)
2) FALLING ROCK EXISTS HERE Are they dead elsewhere? I just thought "exists" was a funny word to use.
And then there were the towns of stars that we passed through.
In Texas:
1) Roger Miller's hometown (wasn't that "King of the Road"?) (taught both of his children)
2) Astronaut Tom Stafford
In Oklahoma:
1) Garth Brooks
2) Troy Aikmann
3) Carrie Underwood
Then finally, when we were almost home, we passed a big truck with a Gator license plate. As we went by, I gave the Gator chomp with my arms, then did a thumbs up. He honked, then the genius honked and we went on, pleased to have made that small contact with another member of the Gator Nation.
Little things, but meaningful!
1 comment:
A friend of mine used to tell his kids that Falling Rock was an indian boy that was lost, and the parents put up signs to "Watch for Falling Rock." He thought the kids understood it to be a joke until the son's teacher said he was insisting on a report on Falling Rock for a famous Native American project. Maybe if they had seen the "Falling Rock Exists Here" sign, the boy would have known that he had been found.
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