My first morning at the Holiday Inn Express in Pearsall, an hour or so south of San Antonio, I left my room just before six o’clock and rode the elevator down from the third floor. It was a Monday, and I shared the descent with four fellows carrying lunch boxes, hard hats clipped to their belts. They were strapping young men, and their red fire-retardant jumpsuits, with “Halliburton” stenciled across the back, made them appear intimidatingly huge, and me feel almost ancient.We followed boot tracks of fracking sand and drilling mud down the hall to the breakfast room, where the men lined up at the buffet for plates piled with biscuits and sausage. I got coffee and went outside to catch the sunrise. As I…The post On the Road Again appeared first on Texas Monthly.