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1. Deron Bauman on January 12th, 2011 at 5:05 pm

   Actually, tomorrow at noon.

2. Rick Neece on January 12th, 2011 at 5:11 pm

   I hope you plan to let us see the documentary. I’m looking forward to it, when you’re ready to share.

3. Deron Bauman on January 12th, 2011 at 5:16 pm

   Of course! I haven’t looked at the footage since I recorded it, so this is just a chance to look through it, with Aaron, so I can see what I think is there.

4. Rick Neece on January 12th, 2011 at 5:16 pm

   Oooh, on a bus, do tell when you get the chance.

5. Deron Bauman on January 12th, 2011 at 5:17 pm

   Yeah, it’s been a long time since I’ve done that. In college I had a couple marathon bus trips. I’m looking forward (?) to seeing how much, if at all, things have changed.

6. Sheila Ryan on January 12th, 2011 at 6:24 pm

   Last time I rode the Dog, which wasn’t all that long ago, it was actually nicer than a lot of Amtrak trains I’ve ridden.

7. Cindy Scroggins on January 12th, 2011 at 6:30 pm

   I love buses. I also love trains. I have a big hope that people will come to visit us in Marfa via train. It stops in Alpine, 25 minutes away. We’ll pick y’all up.

   Safe travels, sweet Deron.

8. Sheila Ryan on January 12th, 2011 at 6:42 pm

   I been at that Amtrak stop in Alpine.

9. Deron Bauman on January 12th, 2011 at 6:43 pm

   I love trains too.

10. Rick Neece on January 12th, 2011 at 6:45 pm

    Cindy, I hope, once you’re both there, Danny and I will ride the train west to meet you in Alpine. Sounds transcendant. (ent?) I’m saying these words out loud just so they come to be one day.

11. Sheila Ryan on January 12th, 2011 at 6:48 pm

    I don’t so much love crowded trains conveying college kids from School to Home. I rode the Illini from Carbondale to Chicago (as a grown-up) too many times — so many times, in fact, that once I booked the cheapest sleeping compartment on the City of New Orleans (same route) just so I could be alone and have some peace on an eight-hour ride to a meeting in Chicago.

12. Rick Neece on January 12th, 2011 at 6:57 pm

    City of New Orleans.

    Part of the soundtrack of my senior year in high school.

13. Sheila Ryan on January 12th, 2011 at 7:13 pm

    My former neighborhood post office in Chicago is now named the Steve Goodman Post Office.

14. Cindy Scroggins on January 12th, 2011 at 7:20 pm

    That Alpine train stop is nice. Not a station–just a stop.

    Rick, it will be wonderful. It will happen.

15. Sheila Ryan on January 12th, 2011 at 7:21 pm

    I confess I got righteously sick of that song, mainly through having heard Arlo’s version 15,879 times, but lately I’ve come around to it again. And this is a touching clip of Goodman performing his own song in 1972 on “Old Grey Whistle Test”.

16. Coop on January 12th, 2011 at 10:44 pm

    Enjoy, Deron!

17. Phil Bebbington on January 14th, 2011 at 11:11 am

    Safe journey, Deron. We are on autopilot until you return. God help us all!

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