On our way to meet the Omaha “in-laws,” our beloved Econoline chugs its final mile. Thanks to an assist from Jim’s dermatologist dad––a Great Depression monk from Tyndall, South Dakota––we drive away in our slightly used, and, as we quickly learn, hugely defective, monastery-on-wheels, the 1986, twenty-six-foot, Fleetwood Bounder “Monkmobile.”
Now officially “motor-homeboys,” we head south for warmer climes, drifting into a “Lonestar State of Mind” courtesy of Lady Bird Johnson and “folkabilly” sensation Nanci Griffith. After stops in Dallas to visit “the grassy knoll,” and Corpus Christi just as the Berlin Wall falls, our loyal subscriber, Cheryl Wagner, arrives with a wallet full of credit cards and promptly fills up the giant “Bounder” gas tank, allowing us to amble up the Rio Grande to Big Bend National Park, from where we embark upon a dangerous crossing into Boquillas, Mexico in a leaky rowboat. Nurse makes a surprise reincarnation, as we hotly debate whether we are, in fact, entering a New Ice Age. Texas has still not recovered.
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