Chapter 13 - SHAMROCK, TEXAS. JUST AS LONELY BY DAYLIGHT as the evening. I woke about 7am, with some deeper sleep, only waking a couple of times. I rose and peeked out the window. The road was deserted in front of the motel and the parking lot mostly empty, just as it was around midnight. Made some of the coffee in that pot they provided. Not the best, not the greatest, but it was hot and black. I'd showered the night before, so there wasn't much to getting ready for the road. Pick out some clean clothes to wear, a shirt, the same jeans, some clean socks. Put on the jacket and hat. TV sat there, tempting me, so I turned it on to see if I could get some local weather. Flicking though the many channels. I found one which briefly mentioned something like Texas weather. Looks like the sto