Eric on The Road

Journeys into the offbeat, off the beaten path, overlooked and forgotten - by Eric Model

Thursday, April 10, 2008

If It’s in Texas, the Texas Country Reporter Has Seen It (NY Times)

From The New York Times:

By Ralph Blumenthal
Published: April 10, 2008

Not much escapes Bob Phillips, 56, a Lone Star Charles Kuralt, who has logged more than 35 years on the state’s back roads and may be the most-traveled man in Texas, starting off as a gofer for a Dallas television station while he was a college freshman.

There are, by one gazetteer’s count, 8,438 populated places in Texas — many more than in California or New York — and the burly and affable Mr. Phillips knows them like few others. “We cannot find a town that we have not been in,” he said. “We have not produced a story in every one, but we have traveled through every one and been on every paved road in the state of Texas.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/10/us/10texas.html?ref=us

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