The Big Bend

As you have no doubt surmised, I’m in vacation mode. I’m leaving this morning for a week-long Texas road trip that will culminate in Big Bend, where I’ll be spending New Year’s Eve with CLH and some friends, including the geologist who takes tequila shots with halite.

This geologist friend is the same person who was the subject, three years ago, of a Houston Press cover story wherin he kayaked down Buffalo Bayou all the way to the Houston Ship Channel, one of the most polluted bodies of water in the U.S. Who knows what kind of adventures he’ll have in store for us in Big Bend.

At first I wasn’t planning on taking my computer but I might have to do some work on the road. Stops along the way include Marfa, Terlingua and our friends’ cabin in the middle of nowhere. The rest of the nights we’re just playing it by ear.

Here’s to a new year and a new decade.