My move to the ranch set the pace for my adventure ahead. Emory had a wedding to attend in Houston, so we parted ways and I drove a truck and a trailer out here solo.
I didn't realize I had missed a turn until I was lost. I powered up my laptop and found another route (could have just used a map).
My alternate route is nice at first, but quickly becomes windy and thins down to just one narrow lane, not great conditions for the trailer I'm pulling. I come to a fork in the road and its either left or right. Neither road is mentioned on my map, and there no sign of the road I was to remain on for many more miles to go.
I choose left and soon after I see a small house and decide to stop for help. I meet very enthusiastic Pablo and Claudine of secluded Sunny Lane, TX. You wouldn’t know it because it doesn’t actually say that anywhere, but nonetheless, there it exists, population: 2.
After exchanging life stories and chatting about the weather and the land and if I had a boyfriend or any children and why not dear, they lead me out to safer roads.
Thats how I learned the first lesson I needed to know for my adventure ahead: people are your best resource for information regarding the area around you. Neither a computer nor a map can tell you the conditions of the road ahead. The best information you can get about an area is by connecting with the people who live in it.
This reminds me of the first principal of Permaculture: Relative Location.
August 15, 2008
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