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Road Trippin' 2016: Mickey Begins Trek To Training Camp On Annual Bus Tour
Wednesday, July 20, 2016 9:10 PM CDT
By Mickey Spagnola
DallasCowboys.com Columnist
http://www.dallascowboys.com/news/2...key-begins-trek-training-camp-annual-bus-tour
This is a little weird. No IRVING, Texas, dateline for the first time in like 31 years.
The Ranch is closed today for all intents and purposes. Essential personnel only.
The Star in Frisco opens Thursday, essential move personnel only on Wednesday.
And guess what?
When everyone else is moving east on Thursday to basically open The Star in Frisco, the Dallas Cowboys brand-spankin’ new facility, we’re moving west, our intrepid foursome from last year boarding the Cowboys Bus making what now will be our second annual cross-country drive to the Dallas Cowboys training camp site in Oxnard, Calif., for Road Trippin’ 2016.
All aboard by 9 a.m. Thursday, myself; Emory Tyler, the best bus driver I’ve ever ridden with; Rowdy, that human magnet of a mascot; and of course, Jacob Walraven, our very own Videoman along for the ride to document our every step, and likely missteps, too. Same group. Sorry. No Jerry Jones. No Jason Garrett. No Tony Romo. No Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders.
Just us.
This year we have eight stops planned along the 1,900-mile trip, adding two additional stops and one more night to our journey through Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada and California. Some say we’ve lost our minds, foregoing the three-hour team charter flight a week from Thursday into California just to traipse across America.
But you know what? We get to see this great country of ours, and only Emory has to drive. We get to meet all sorts of people. Most of all, we get to see Cowboys fans, young and old, and like last year, very aged, Earnestine, the 90-year-old lifetime Cowboys fan who came out to meet us in the scorching sun of Abilene, Texas. Why there will be those fans tatted-up with the Cowboys Star or a Cowboys replica helmet burned into their skin.
Now we’re Talkin’ real Cowboys fans. Amazing, they are out there, all over the place, from Wayout West Texas to Wilshire Boulevard in LA. From El Paso, where thousands of Cowboys fans greeted us last year, to those running down the streets in Oxnard hailing our arrival. Just never know who or what you are going to see.
Always amazing, always humbling, but always qualifying the true meaning of America’s Team – still...
Wednesday, July 20, 2016 9:10 PM CDT
By Mickey Spagnola
DallasCowboys.com Columnist
http://www.dallascowboys.com/news/2...key-begins-trek-training-camp-annual-bus-tour
This is a little weird. No IRVING, Texas, dateline for the first time in like 31 years.
The Ranch is closed today for all intents and purposes. Essential personnel only.
The Star in Frisco opens Thursday, essential move personnel only on Wednesday.
And guess what?
When everyone else is moving east on Thursday to basically open The Star in Frisco, the Dallas Cowboys brand-spankin’ new facility, we’re moving west, our intrepid foursome from last year boarding the Cowboys Bus making what now will be our second annual cross-country drive to the Dallas Cowboys training camp site in Oxnard, Calif., for Road Trippin’ 2016.
All aboard by 9 a.m. Thursday, myself; Emory Tyler, the best bus driver I’ve ever ridden with; Rowdy, that human magnet of a mascot; and of course, Jacob Walraven, our very own Videoman along for the ride to document our every step, and likely missteps, too. Same group. Sorry. No Jerry Jones. No Jason Garrett. No Tony Romo. No Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders.
Just us.
This year we have eight stops planned along the 1,900-mile trip, adding two additional stops and one more night to our journey through Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada and California. Some say we’ve lost our minds, foregoing the three-hour team charter flight a week from Thursday into California just to traipse across America.
But you know what? We get to see this great country of ours, and only Emory has to drive. We get to meet all sorts of people. Most of all, we get to see Cowboys fans, young and old, and like last year, very aged, Earnestine, the 90-year-old lifetime Cowboys fan who came out to meet us in the scorching sun of Abilene, Texas. Why there will be those fans tatted-up with the Cowboys Star or a Cowboys replica helmet burned into their skin.
Now we’re Talkin’ real Cowboys fans. Amazing, they are out there, all over the place, from Wayout West Texas to Wilshire Boulevard in LA. From El Paso, where thousands of Cowboys fans greeted us last year, to those running down the streets in Oxnard hailing our arrival. Just never know who or what you are going to see.
Always amazing, always humbling, but always qualifying the true meaning of America’s Team – still...
