While coping with a loss, writer Emily Gogolak returns to the Panhandle to repay a stranger who helped her while stranded on the side of the road. “That memory is a stand-in for everything I miss about Texas—the openness of its plains, the enormity of its sky, the quiet kindness of its strangers. I decide to move back.”Narration: Emily GogolakProducer: Katey PsencikIllustration: Jessica Fontenot
Introducing Open Road, an audio adaptation of Texas Highways magazine's acclaimed essay series. Tune in for personal stories about traveling under the wide-open skies of Texas.