Burman made better visuals than I did anyway. Someone sidled up beside me. “You know, you could get a reputation.” I knew the voice of Gordon Gardner, reporter for the Houston Post-Dispatch. He wore his typical reporter uniform: brown suit, scuffed shoes, shirt in need of ironing, and a tie sligh...
On the east side, it ended in the Heights, a little suburb of Houston noted for—what else—its higher elevation. That wasn’t a stretch since Houston itself is pretty flat. On the west side, it ended at State Highway 6, the only way to get to Austin. In between, you had a funny mixture of farms and...