RIO BRAVO--This morning my Tuesday/Thursday biking partner Bob Evans and I were picking our way through the broken glass and goatheads on the Rio Bravo bike trail when we heard this really strange wail. It sounded like a lot of those plastic horns you hear at a Mexican soccer game. Aaarrrgh...Aaarrrgh. Anyway, as we passed some trees and got to the intersection we saw about 20 or 30 semi trucks honking their horns. They were in some sort of parade and going very slowly, about 5 mph. We cut between them at the intersection (they weren't stopping for the light) and caught up with the first truck. It was hauling a flatbed trailer and on the trailer was a coffin! Behind the semi were two long white limosines. The other 20 or 30 trucks followed. They went up the hill at Rio Bravo and turned north on Broadway...still honking, still going 5 mph.
It was, I am sure, a procession his family and friends will remember forever. Aaarrrgh...Aaarrrgh.
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