Day 2: Ft. Stockton
to Austin
It is my intention to
keep a blog of our 2017 summer journey highlighting our days of pilgrimage. I
hope our children find it interesting.
There isn’t a whole lot to see while driving across west
Texas and John and I kept occupied by listening to 70’s and 80’s playlists and
the audio version of The Count of Monte Cristo. I was taken by John’s
appreciation of Kenny Loggins (especially the theme song to Caddy Shack),
seemingly anything by Journey and the classic funk of Stevie Wonder. John
stated he would like to some day learn to play Superstition on the piano.
John’s interest in his summer reading project also impressed
me. The Count of Mount Cristo is not an easy read, or for that matter easy to
listen to, but somehow both John and I had gotten wrapped into the dramatic
twists and turns of Edmond Dantès life and the book surprised us by
throwing a little Napoleon in for good measure.
When we left Ft. Stockton, John and I were wondering to each
other if that truly was the largest roadrunner in the world. Then he reminded
me of another roadrunner, one we had seen yesterday in the parking lot of the
Safeway in Willcox, AZ. I had forgotten but there had been a curious roadrunner
that approached us as I was tending to John’s foot. The bird had come very
close to the van and had examined us and then went on its way. As we started
toward Austin, John said that he thought that roadrunner was God and served as
protection for us.
I could only wonder and hope.
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