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| He wrote small, in ballpoint, usually at a truck stop counter, and he always ran out of room. I've typed them exactly as he wrote them except I fixed a couple of spellings, which he would want me to tell you he'd have caught himself if the coffee hadn't been so bad. On the left is what's on the front of the card. On the right is what he wrote. |
| POSTMARKED FLAGSTAFF, ARIZ. · APRIL 1967 | |
| Front: The Painted Desert at sunset, red and purple stripes, one little cloud. | Dear Yvonne, Dottie & Tommy. Lettuce for Chicago. Drove by this at 5 in the morning and it looked like somebody spilled every can of paint in the world. Dottie count the colors and tell me when I get home. Love, Daddy |
| POSTMARKED ST. LOUIS, MO. · JULY 21, 1969 | |
| Front: The Gateway Arch, shiny, with a blue sky. | Watched them walk on the moon last night on a TV at a truck stop off 44 with about forty drivers. Nobody said one word the whole time. Grown men. Tommy someday it will be you. Dottie too. Love, Daddy |
| POSTMARKED CHICAGO, ILL. · DECEMBER 1972 | |
| Front: The Chicago skyline from the lake, in summer. (It was not summer.) | Snowing sideways. Onions delivered. I will be home by Christmas Eve, I promise, if I have to carry the truck. Dottie be good for your mother. I'll know. Love, Dad |
| POSTMARKED SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF. · JULY 1976 | |
| Front: The Golden Gate Bridge in the fog, just the tops of the towers showing. | Stuck here the whole 4th waiting on a load. Watched the Bicentennial fireworks over the bay from the lot. Pretty but I'd rather have been in the back yard with you all and the sparklers. Tommy don't let your sister boss you. Love, Dad |
| POSTMARKED OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLA. · MAY 1978 | |
| Front: A truck stop at night, all the rigs lit up with their running lights, and a big sign that says EAT. | Rosalita's first trip. She rides like a Cadillac. A Cadillac with eighteen wheels and a mortgage. Yvonne, don't worry about the payments. We'll make it. Love, Mike |
| POSTMARKED RAPID CITY, S.D. · AUGUST 1981 | |
| Front: Mount Rushmore, the four presidents, very serious. | Took the long way home to see them. Ate breakfast looking at four presidents and they looked at me like they knew I was behind on my logbook. Dottie good luck at college. Call your mother. Love, Dad |
| POSTMARKED ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. · JUNE 1985 | |
| Front: Central Avenue at night, all the motel signs lit up in neon. | Radio says they're taking 66 off the maps for good. I drove it the first time in '66. They can take down the signs. They can't take the road. Love, Mike |
| POSTMARKED BARSTOW, CALIF. · OCTOBER 1988 | |
| Front: Cadillac Ranch, the ten old Cadillacs stuck nose-down in the field west of Amarillo. | Found a card of home in a truck stop in California. Now I'm homesick. First trip in the new Kenworth. She's fine. She's not Rosalita. Love, Mike |
| POSTMARKED GRAND CANYON, ARIZ. · MARCH 1991 | |
| Front: The Grand Canyon with snow on the rim. | To Megan. Grandpa went to see the biggest hole in the world. It is bigger than the one in your sock. Tell your mommy I took a day off. Tell Grandma too, she won't believe it. Love, Grandpa |
| POSTMARKED TULSA, OKLA. · SEPTEMBER 1995 | |
| Front: The big blue whale at Catoosa, on old 66, with kids sliding off his tail into the pond. | Dottie. Drove right by your house at 4 a.m. going east and hit the air horn. Did you hear me? If you did, that was me. If you didn't, it was me anyway. Kiss the kids. Dad |
| POSTMARKED AMARILLO, TEX. · JUNE 1996 · THE LAST ONE | |
| Front: Greetings from Amarillo, Texas, in big letters, with a cowboy and a longhorn. | Dear Yvonne. I'm home. For good this time. Thirty years is enough. Put the coffee on. Love, Mike
(He mailed it from the post office downtown to our house across town, the day he sold the truck. Mom has it on the refrigerator.) |