On the road in cyberspace

Blogging and traveling are alike in that they are spontaneous, open ended, absorbing and unpredictable. You start out with an idea of a destination, but as Emerson pointed out, nothing's perfect but the thought of it. On the road that first day, it was exhilarating to go 90 on an empty two lane highway through the flat, featureless center of New Mexico, crushing to see the Halliburton office in Artesia. (Just what are they doing there?) It was strange to see the grasshopper-shaped oil wells, bowing continuously to the goddess of energy.

It was lovely to arrive in Marfa to that wide wonderful main street (wide enough to drive a herd of cattle through) and our lovely room at El Paisano, bizarre to find a copy of Garden and Gun on my bedside table. But everyone, without exception, has been delightful. No one in our experience has had an edge, let alone a gun.

In Marfa, Eugene Binder opened his gallery, with two vintage Porsches out front, so we could see Donald Rubenstein and Kiki Smith's evocative collaborative drawings. In Ft. Davis, where we stopped for carrot pumpkin muffins, everyone in the café joined in the conversation. On the road we saw (gratefully) a bumper sticker that said, Texas Democrat.

On our blog, we are learning to upload, edit and correct. (By the way, Marcel has a 22, not a 38, in his hip and Duchamp has a small c: like a good newspaper, we correct our mistakes.) To our readers who have tried to comment, including Matty, Mariam, Alina, Morty, Carol, Elissa and others, Thank You! We will troubleshoot that feature. I understand it can be fixed so that visitors need not register…We'll let you know. Thanks for tuning in to Seeking Texas.