A song for the road

PART 12
  • A song for the road
    A song for the road
  • EXIT ZERO FOR GLENRIO and this summer’s Route 66 Ramble—for now. Back on the road this fall! | TEXAS SPUR
    EXIT ZERO FOR GLENRIO and this summer’s Route 66 Ramble—for now. Back on the road this fall! | TEXAS SPUR

    BARBARA BRANNON AND KAY ELLINGTON

    The poet Walt Whitman didn’t live to travel by automobile, but he knew a few things about the itch to get out on the “long brown path before me leading wherever I choose.”

    He appreciated rhythms of footfall and ferry, hackney and train; the forward motion that opened the eye to fresh vistas and the mind to inspiration.

    He didn’t live to experience the radio, either, …