Texas Tango
by Joe Pratt
Title
Texas Tango
Artist
Joe Pratt
Medium
Photograph - Digital Photography
Description
THE DANCE AT DUSK. We were trying to find Click, Texas, don't bother, it's no longer there. Much of the time my wife and I just jump in the car and drive with no destination in mind, she with her books and I w ith the camera bag, however this time it was different. On the map was a dot which represented Click, Texas. By the time we had driven that far, we were probably fifty miles in any direction from any town or habitation. We did pass a locked-up deer hunter's cabin which we would have had to spend the night in had the back tires dug any deeper through the thin layer of gravel into the mud beneath as we traversed the third low water crossing in front of us. My wife was oblivious to the sound and feel, but as the driver, I could feel that our back tires had pierced the 'gravel crust'. There was no cell phone coverage, no help, no tractor, no rancher and no sign of life as I mentioned for fifty miles in any direction. We were so close to being desperately and dangerously stranded.
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January 28th, 2013
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