it dawned on me that something was wrong. He was going against traffic. In the street.

Not intending to validate that guy but..... The best way for me to get out of town involves a seven mile section of narrow winding two-lane highway, surprisingly rural in character for being so close to the city.

What has happened not far south of town here in San Antonio is the Eagle Ford oil boom, the burning gas flares of the thousands of new wells drilled literally visible from space as a swathe of light across nighttime Texas. Thousands of trucks, massive infrastructure problems on formerly quiet country roads, exceedingly high moving vehicle accident rate.

On that seven mile section I ride on the edge of pavement against traffic, moving as far off-pavement into the grass as necessary when oncoming cars are present. I've tried riding with traffic, almost been hit a few times that way by wide vehicles.

Mike