Names: Buddy Holly (named after the performer) and Peggy Sue (the fawn-colored one, named after Holly’s hit song) Breed: Pugs Ages: Buddy is 3; pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty Peggy Sue is 4 Encountered: At what’s billed as the largest free-standing cross…
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Groom, Texas: My cross to bear
by John Woestendiek • • 4 Comments
With God on my side and Jesus in my cupholder, Ace and I passed through the Texas panhandle Wednesday, revisiting the site where, 18 years ago, almost to the day, I nearly got myself killed. This time around, the roads weren’t…
On music, memories and the open road
by John Woestendiek • • 3 Comments
This trip, whatever else it’s about, is also about nostalgia, and I got a big dose of it on the drive to Houston – most of it induced by the long-distance driver’s best friend, the radio. Music, like old friends…