The Centennial Seeker | Roadside Notes — A Faith and Good Courage Journal Reading | Ep50
The Centennial Seeker found me before I found him. I was halfway through breakfast at a Route 66 diner when I heard him ask the waitress about the towns. The ones that had every reason to dry up and blow away and somehow didn't. She listened politely, smiled, and pointed right at me. So he pulled up a stool and we got to talking.
Pete from Kentucky wasn't really asking about the towns at all. He was asking about himself. Twenty two years of sixty hour weeks and a morning where he finally looked up from the work long enough to realize he couldn't remember the last time he had done something just because he wanted to. He didn't ease into it. Didn't plan a sabbatical. He just stopped. Handed in his notice, packed what fit in the car, and pointed it west. Two flat tires before he hit the Oklahoma state line. A water pump that gave up in the middle of nowhere. A cracked windshield courtesy of a truck tire outside of Holbrook. And a breakfast on a curb in Flagstaff with a homeless woman that he called one of the best twenty minutes of the whole trip.
This week's Roadside Notes is about what happens when the weight of everything you've been carrying gets heavier than the fear of letting it go. The towns that refused to die didn't survive because everything went right. They survived because the people in them learned to sit with the hard parts long enough to find what was still worth saving. Pete from Kentucky was doing the same thing. One mile at a time.
📖 Read the full Journal entry: https://faithandgoodcourage.com/2026/08/20/the-centennial-seeker/
🎙️ Roadside Notes is a reading series from the Faith and Good Courage Journal, stories of grace, grit, and second chances written and read by Christopher Tuttle, The Route 66 Chaplain.
#FaithAndGoodCourage #faithgoodcourage #Route66Chaplain #ChristopherTuttle #RoadsideWisdom #Rule66 #HealingHighway #KindnessForTheRoad #QuietStrength #TheCompassionDeficit #WitWisdomAndDinerMoments #GraceOnTheGo #route66 #matthew25lives #Route66Centennial
