On the road

Texas road kill sighted (more than the usual, I might add).

1) Buzzard
2) Calf
3) Dogs
4) Cat
5) Coyote
6) Possum
7) Possum
8) Possum
9) Skunk

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In the middle of no where Texas, along the road (nearest “city”, Thrall, population 710, twenty miles away), out pops a little shack with lights on.

“Beer, pool, girls” it reads.

All for the weary nomad I suppose.

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We’re driving by this ranch in the middle of ranchland, Texas, with the usual bunch of cows chewing cud, and a couple of bored looking horses standing around.

And then I see it. I think I’m dreaming, and slow down to look again.


It’s there. There was a real, live, contented looking Emu strutting around the driveway of the farmhouse.

(that's not my picture, it's just a picture of an emu. I didn't have a camera handy then).