title: Dry'd, Fry'd, and Sky'd by Headwinds and Heat: My Trans-Texas Bicycle Odyssey
author: John Eyberg
description: John Eyberg, a veteran of the US Navy, has taught for over twenty years in the Ysleta Independent School District, El Paso, Texas. Known in the biking world as Juanito Hayburg and BIKERJOHN, he has pedaled over 100,000 miles. He and his wife, Ellen, have two adult children and reside in El Paso.
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  # Agua Dulce
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Mary Austin
  
  
  This page copyright © 2001 Blackmask Online.
  
  
  http://www.blackmask.com
  
  
  THE Los Angeles special got in so late that day that if the driver of the
  Mojave stage had not, from having once
  
  
  gone to school to me, acquired the habit of minding what I said, I should
  never have made it. I hailed it from the
  
  
  station, and he swung the four about in the wide street as the wind swept me
  toward the racked old coach in a
  
  
  blinding whirl of dust.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  It wrapped my skirts about the iron gear of the coach as I climbed to the seat
  beside the driver, and, as we
  
  
  dropped the town behind us, lifted my hat and searched out my hairpins. But it
  was the desert wind
  
  
  Note: [illustration omitted] and the smell it carried was the smell of marrow-
  fat weed and gilias after the sun goes
  
  
  down; so, because I had been very unhappy away from it, and was now drunk with
  the joy of renewal, and as in my
  
  
  case ther