A Long Way From Nowhere

<p>Luc Barbon felt like he was escaping from the reality of 1968. Retreating from his own dead-ends in the Ozarks and Dallas and about to bury himself in another foxhole in East Texas. A place where the world evolved around a Dairy Queen. It just might be he speculated a safe spot to be for a while. What trouble could he possibly get into hidden among the Magnolias in the Black-Eyed Pea Capital of the World.<br><br>What lay ahead was a blank slate. He wondered if this was going to be the way it is always going somewhere always leaving somewhere behind. He would soon discover he was like tumbleweed on a mission his roots were shallow and easily uprooted with the winds of change.</p>