On The Road Again

[HARDCORE]

1-16-2024

Maybe the lure of the open road is just so overpowering that it hypnotically draws an individual (like an opiate, or even a moth to an open flame) to “Our Nation’s Highways?” Or could it just be an ancient throwback to those times long past - that instills within a man’s spirit an insatiable hunger to pound-out the miles in search of new horizons, and to let the wheels of his rolling stock thunder over portions of the road that his eyes (and his soul) had never seen before!

But whatever it is, there is an indescribable hunger there that even those with years of wanderlust under their belts, can not describe, or even explain away? As well as that gnawing pain to perpetually see just what it is that is hidden just beyond the next horizon?
And unless you have personally experienced it yourself, you will never be able to describe this phenomenon to any sedentary-soul who is quite content to merely pound the ‘same’ pavement, (day in and day out), until time and age itself puts an abrupt ending to his hunger and to his insatiable curiosity!!

Of course, there are always those out there who say that a career on the road is a tedious and disruptive way to make a living? Or that it is an existence of stinking truck stops, the shop-worn ladies that frequent them, the smoke-filled and often noisy terminals that dot our highways, and the faces of your fellow road warriors that never seem to change (save for that new wrinkle or two that dots the suntanned brows of those other well-seasoned gentlemen of the road)!

It is still a matter of fact, however, that life upon the open highways eventually evolves to the point where one wonders “ – “Just why in the ‘Hell’ are you do it anyway?” Until after numerous bouts of the clap - the shinny side of your rig ends-up in some ditch, and either ‘Nature’ or time itself puts an abrupt ending to your wanderlust, and maybe even your life as well?

But yet, the trucks rumble on, until that day finally arrives when one of those short cat-naps along “Our Nation’s Highways”, opens up into a whole new (and gleaming) spectrum of eternity –

“And So It Is!” As Old Truckers, and An Old Warrior As Well, Always Do Share The Same Highways and The Same Final Outcomes In Life - “Do They Not?!”

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