grackled liked this for a starter.
He hasn't been back to Texas since the Revolution, when the Alamo was barely yesterday's news and mass executions were just another day in the neighborhood. Not that he's here for a history lesson; he's passing through. He's always passing through. Or maybe wandering is a better word, because the former implies an actual destination.
It's quiet. Nothing like the bright lights and heady smog of silicone-veiled Los Angeles, where he'd been slipping through the cracks for the better part of a year. It's quiet like Andover three hundred years ago, and that makes his skin crawl.
You'd think he would've grown accustomed to this by now.
A motel and a place to eat would be a good start, and somebody with a better sense of direction than him; typically, he didn't bother swinging by a travel agent to pick up a brochure.