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During the previous day\u2019s wanderings, they had another near out-of-gas experience in the west <\/p>\n
Texas outback along US 380. It seems that these desert Bible-belt, God-fearing folks don\u2019t operate <\/p>\n
their gasoline stations on the Lord\u2019s Day.<\/p>\n
Their engines-off coasting into a Rotan Texas gasoline and quickie mart station occasioned several <\/p>\n
new candidate nicknames for Augustus and his less than a tenth of a gallon of gas remaining bike. <\/p>\n
Gas Guzzler, Mileage Master and Most Excellent Estimator seemed too mundane, too ironic or <\/p>\n
more than a bit untruthful. Later while they topped off their tanks for a last, speed-of-heat, slab <\/p>\n
segment to the Fort Worth area, they settled on Gasturbator as his new moniker.<\/p>\n
With this day in the book, Marlow had journeyed 35 days on this trip and over 10,000 miles. He <\/p>\n
had ridden Wilma more than 35,000 miles since he picked her up in Scranton Pennsylvania 29 <\/p>\n
months earlier.<\/p>\n
On Monday they slabbed eastward and then southward 500 miles to the next overnight location in <\/p>\n
the Bayou state. They repeatedly rode through narrow rain-band showers that were the remnants of <\/p>\n
Tropical Storm Faye. <\/p>\n
After a long, hot and humid outing, they arrived with t-shirts fully drenched in sweat. <\/p>\n
They were pleasantly surprised by an outstanding dinner at a local Baton Rouge fish house, <\/p>\n
Parrain\u2019s, that Steve had discovered during a State Department assignment to Louisiana for the <\/p>\n
Hurricane Katrina recovery efforts in 2005. <\/p>\n
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