Dalhart to Nara Visa.

I was west bound on 54 one night with some pretty good wind blowing. Somewhere ahead of me was another truck running the same direction, He was running about the same speed as I was, so I never caught im, but could hear him on the radio loud and clear. I hadn't gone far after passing through Dalhart when I heard him tell an east bound truck that there was a fire with a lot of emergency vehicles to watch out for..
I am on the lookout, but never see anything and he keeps telling every east bound we meet the same thing all the way to the state line.
At first I thought he had a good radio and was quite a bit ahead of me, but by the time we got to the line I had just decided he was some kind of a nut. I finally ask him where it was that he imagined seeing a fire complete with a bunch of emergency vehicles. He explained that the vehicles weren't there by the time he went through, but had to be on the way. Ok, it is night, and I sure hadn't seen any flames or even anything resembling a fire, so I ask again, where was the fire supposedly.
He came back with didn't you run through all the smoke just this side of dalhart, you could barely see through it. I ask if he smelled that smoke, cuz, it sure wasn't smoke. lol
Anyone familar with the area knows there is two large feedlots, one on each side of the highway, and his smoke was dust blowing out of the pens. lol
Cowboys will tell you that smoke smells like money. lol

 

I think they finally closed the old truckstop at Nara Visa, but I have sit at it and watched the scale before when it was open. It would usually close around 11 at night when it was open.
I sat there one night though till 1 in the morning. I had not been home in about a month, finally called my wife to come get me and went back for the truck the next evening. lol

 

I lived 45 miles from Nara Visa for over 20 years, and we baled hay in KS, I ran 54 when I was coming home back then all the time, and a lot after I went back to otr too, just depending.