OT*****Re: Hello, it's me..

[Shawn Tayler]

On Thu, 07 Sep 2006 23:24:51 -0400 Ric Moore <wayward4now at gmail.com>
exclaimed:

> "If you ain't got a hat, you ain't from around here." drawled the
> arresting officer that let 4 pickups and two mile-long Cadillacs whip
> past me, on the way to Lubbock, like I was laying on the brakes. Yeah,
> they were all wearing their Stetsons, gasoline was no more than a dollar
> a gallon and a 1976 Sedan DeVille had more than 500 horses to propel
> that iron and steel sled way past 120 mph and it felt like you were
> doing 45 in one. Law west of the Pecos sez wear a frigging hat or have a
> traffic set-to with Deputy Billy Bob and his flashy lights.    
> 
> It was so flat out there you could run of the road asleep (which I did
> once) and find yourself being gently roused from your nap 1/4 mile off
> the road, still doing 65 mph, and laying down a dust plume behind you
> like a B-52 flying at low level. I'm sure the people traveling on the
> road got a chuckle seeing a Ford Econoline van tearing across the
> outback. I just turned the wheel gently towards the highway and kept on
> going, pedal to the metal with my new Stetson. In the dry months (there
> are twelve of them) mesquite bushes just fly apart when you run over
> them. Jackalopes evolved those horns on their heads to take you
> hopefully with them to Hell when you ran over them. That's Texas, Son!
> Would I move back? He-yal Naaaaaww... Ric

Well there is a rousing endorsement if I ever heard one.....

We can do that here in Nevada too.  Especially out on the Black Rock
Desert.  Speaking of which, the Burning Man festival was last weekend as
well.  Always an interesting eyeball.  Just remember to take your body
paints!

Shawn