Off Ramps

I was riding my motorcycle from Houston to San Antonio on IH10 when I noticed an off-ramp that led to old Highway 90. I had traveled that road many times with my grandmother 70 years ago before IH10 existed. “I wonder what the road is like now,” I said to myself. I took the off-ramp, and as Robert Frost said, “It made all the difference.”

I rode through …