With flashbacks going back to the memoirs of the 2004 RV Roadtrip, I wanted to reintroduce myself to DeafNation’s “Mary Augusta” Roadtrip tour and travel once again to reconnect with the Deaf communities across the plains, mountains, and hills, wherever I am at.

It certainly would be nice if technology was far advanced than the technology of today’s society, if it was, I would able to teleport this RV straight our destination in a timeless fashion. But it is not going to happen so I will head for where we have to go the old fashioned way, not quite the way people did in the old wild west days with horse-riding Indians and cowboys galloping on their horses, but close enough.

I set off in the “Mary Augusta” RV on a new journey from the subtropical Austin, Texas to the hot and dry terrains of Colorado, going through countryside highways seeing real quaint towns, leaving the urban city literally, and completely going wireless coping with the flaws of technology, seeing the signal blink disappear sometimes because of poor internet connections.

Entering into pitch-black weather, I could only follow the road or veer off into complete blackness. It was like that during nighttime driving.

Funny as I crept into the moonless nightfall suddenly a sign flashed with the words “Mills County Arena,” an arena-like building smack in the deep countryside? Life can be interesting sometimes. Never know what you can find when I show up in someone’s small town.

At one point in a very narrow road, a two way street, a huge truck came as our huge Mary Augusta RV headed toward their way, it meant both drivers, me and the other driver, had to hold a perfect line to avoid even scratching each other. We both successfully did, with a wall of rushed compressed air only to separate us. I have some serious steering wheel maneuvering to do in parts of our travels, just like a plane going into turbulent airspace.

The ultimate DeafNation RV tour experience is to escape civilization and let the grazing cows gaze at us in wonderment as our RV flashes bright colors of blue and red with huge, billboard size letters “DeafNation.”

When I arrived in Abilene straight to Walmart at the overnight parking space, I walked all the way across the parking lot to the front entry of the store. Before entering in, I still could see the larger-than-life size letters as it was an invitation for the whole wide world to come and check out my RV’s website www.deafnation.com.

“The Mary Augusta” is a great attraction even on a midnight shopping trip!

DeafNation’s writer John Critser joined on this Roadtrip so he can see with the same eyes I see through and walk in the same shoes as I will on this tour and to bring an added perspection to this journey, and to do twittering, a trend that DeafNation will be getting into. It’ll be fun.

As we drove on, we fed off each other everything we saw.

Recounted John, “While we were cruising along in countryside, Jed caught a sign saying “Your prayers go up and blessings come down.”

We both mused that as we escape the urban inner-city hub of diversified values, we see the dairy farms, a culture of religion and the old-fashioned rusty plow machines, the countryside looms large as we cannot escape any urban influence completely. It can only happen by being stranded on an island.

Now that we are in Loveland, Colorado, I am going to get acclimated to the Colorado weather and scope out the golf course where I will be playing at.

It’s worth the escape and do some serious golfing the next few days!

Maybe get a golf blessing while twittering captures everything.

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