Archive: July 1, 2016 - Gary Borders

Venerable Flatlanders Still Have The Chops

AUSTIN — My oldest daughter, Kasey, is visiting friends in Austin, having escaped the humid climes of the Florida coast for a few days in the dry heat of Central Texas. I took off work early last Friday to make the five-hour voyage to A-Town. I once made this trek nearly every weekend, heading back to East Texas after the workweek ended. I still head here for one reason or another at least a half-dozen times a year. I have sworn off I-35, permanently and irrevocably. The last three times I took that route — Hwy. 31 to Waco, then I-35 to Austin — a wreck turned the interstate into a long,...

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