Image: On the outskirts of Lamesa, it's raining, did do for the last hour and a half of the drive, it really came down.

 

12.04.16 - 70) I left my Motel 6 it was very nicely positioned

And this time I didn’t get propositioned

Unlike last year when I thought things had gone alright

But I got propositioned on my very last night

 

71) Leave the motel drive through Austin to I-31 now my journey’s begun

Goin’s slow, traffic queuein’ on a cereal bar I’m chewin’

Coffee in my travel cup, need it to perk me up

It don’t take long soon I - 87 I’m drivin’ along

It’s been rainin’ an’ soon I’, hearin’ more raindrops on the windscreen

Pools on the road where it’s been

Drive with care, I wanna get there.

Roadworks an’ speed limits I’m heedin’

Don’t wanna get stopped for speedin’

All the familiar places I find, drive with care they’re soon left behind

Soon there’s familiar soil richly brown, and the rains really pouring down

Take it slow, now not far to go

Lamesa at the end of my days roam sure feels good like I’m comin’ home

 

72) At Connie’s I’m there, takin’ my ease in a rockin’ chair

Eyes closed, relaxin’, doin’ nothin’ overtaxin’

Countrymusic on the radio

There’s a fiddler playin’ an I’m thinkin’ go fiddler go

An’there’s a guy singin’ clear an’ plain,

About a journey on a long black train

An’ later I’ll be on KPET Radio again