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Back to Phoenix

6/5/2003

 
I made it as far as Tonopah, NV last night. When I headed out this morning, I came across a broken down Werner truck just south of Tonopah (about 4am). 

He had hit something in the road and it severed his emergency air line on one brake canister. His trailer tire had locked up and he couldn't get enough traction to pull the thing completely off the road. He was sitting with the rear of the trailer sticking out into traffic and no ability to cage the brake and get out of the way.

He was calling his Emergency repair people when I left him. 

I made it down to Phoenix in one piece, finally. 

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    I find that I do my best thinking while the wheels are rolling the miles away. Unfortunately most of that deep thinking doesn't stick around when I'm done driving. I find that more urgent things take my attention and the earth-saving ideas I had quietly slip into the haze of half-remembered feelings and emotions. I should get a voice recorder or something. I'll have to remember to do that. 

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