With a Toyota pick up truck and a round cow boy hat, a white vest and a pair of jeans with a match stick between the teeth, elbow outside the driver window and a lonely road with yellow stripes in between, on the sideways heavy electric lines and the hanging wires and cables, on the radio RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS’s “SCAR TISSUE”, and with the beautiful tune the constant speed of the rusty pick up truck. “GOD BLESS TEXAS”!
!!!IT was not that I always liked listening to Red Hot Chili Peppers but the track made me a big fan of them, I started listening to “californication”, “snow”, “dani California” and “scar tissue”!!! But the tune matched it, I started looking at the red desert flowers, some of them passed by my pick up truck from ahead and behind as the hot wind blew them away, miles away. Look at the looks of mine unshaved bristles and unwashed face, I got up late and put my stuff at the back of the truck. I love this vehicle, because it gives me the pleasure that even a SUV can’t give!!! I love its big tyres and a manly look structure, top speed with heavy duty!!
One of the most beautiful things in this road trip is the road itself, it’s not a road, and it’s racing circuit. You won’t find the famous Dunlop Bridge across the road like the Brits have it in Donnigton Park, but you will find the remains of cows across the road, like the one I am looking at!! Wow, the hollow structure of this cow Skelton looks so weird!!!
The best thing about this highway is that you’ll get a very fine inverted image on the road far ahead, when the road shines like water boiling at hundred degrees, and again I see that a convertible Renault is rising like a sun at the end of this highway, it approaches like a rocket fired from Israel to Palestine. Now the car is close, I don’t know why they are messing with heat on this convertible car, may be they are the Texas heat lovers like me. Three beautiful Kentucky girls with black goggles laughed at me as I passed by. Ever wondered how I figured out they are Kentucky girls?? It’s very simple I read the Kentucky cheerleaders on their t-shirts!!!
Driving through this hot uneven paradise made me hungry and thirsty. Now I move to self service gas station, the only one in between 50 miles!! Don’t forget to have your tank full, while filling the gas I looked at the lonesome sandwich shop, it’s evening by now and this is the only place where you can sense the human civilization and honestly I couldn’t stop myself and entered. I saw a fat man who is the guy from the county sheriff; I see the tan/brown shirt, eating a hell of big sandwich. Anyways, I moved forward and at the counter I asked a fat Negro woman “what do you have in here??” “We have sandwich, ham burger, and what else do you expect in this graveyard??” Quite true!
Evening has come down and in my pick up truck I got the stuff back from the sandwich shop, while eating hamburgers and sandwiches I looked at desert, it was shining red, far at a distance the sun was going down and the red dusk covered the whole Texan desert.
I was just eating and drinking sprite. By looking at the sprite can I remembered how Jack’s father used to teach him shooting by placing the empty Red Bull cans on the roof top of his car and he used to aim right at the cans, I loved the sound of the gun shots as they blew them away!! It was hard to find the pieces of the Red Bull cans!!!
Time was over, and I was heading back home, night had darkened the desert and I was driving into it. With black turned red desert flowers and the yellow stripes turned radium glowing lights on the highway was giving the impression of a runway. But there was no plane to land and it was just my pick up truck and me driving into the night, keeping the scar tissue in my head, hoping to get back home soon, driving and driving.
In case you missed Scar Tissue on TV, I have put it in here!! Just watch it!
