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What happens when one Vancouver Sun columnist and her aunt decide to see the great state of Texas from a car, a Greyhound bus and a train? Well, nothing terribly exciting, though Susan Riley’s recounting of her trip through Texas, including stops in Dallas and Austin and elsewhere, provides a intriguing snapshot from the outsider’s perspective. A sample below. –Robert Wilonsky
“While we didn’t set out to take a core sample of the American class
system, that’s what we got: snapshots of an acquisitive, gas-guzzling,
fried-chicken-gobbling, moneyed class; the mostly Hispanic and black
working poor jammed into San Antonio’s grimy bus station; and a
scattering of non-conformists — students, soldiers and families —
riding the rails. We learned quickly that the true untouchables in the
Texas caste system are the carless.”
