ROAD TRIP!
I'm on a drive from Denver, Colorado to Orlando, Florida. I haven't journaled much about my trip (except for Trinidad, Colorado). Mostly been drivin' straight through - but my most interesting spot was a stop in a small town in Texas...
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10:00 AM August 22, 2006
My first gas stop on the border on the South border of Colorado. Though my stop is at a Diamond Shamrock, the gas station is run like any small town. You know it’s a small town when everyone that stops in the corner store knows each other. Everyone from the clerks to the truckers and even the mechanics and electricians that stop in for a cup of coffee and a lottery ticket. “How’s your mom doin?” as their conversation goes.
The two construction workers scratching lottery tickets have been hanging out at the station for almost an hour now, they said. Already, their stack of lottery scratch tickets has added up to $43.00 in donations to the State.
Back in Denver, I used to always visit my neighbor Mary next door on Ivy Street. Even in her mid-80s she calls Nana (my grandma) a “little chicky,” because Nana wasn’t around during World War I.
Mary was born and raised in Trinidad. Trinidad didn’t have a sewer system in Mary’s day and she would even pump her own water for family home and barn. Now, the technicians sitting next to me in this Diamond Shamrock are talking about expanding highways, and gold course views, and public wi-fi internet access downtown.
Even so, Trinidad keeps the small town feel with a quaint downtown nestled in some amazing green hills at the foot of the Rocky Mountains.
