My dad managed some key school district functions across the Mojave desert and we had a little place near US-395 from which we could go fishing, hiking, or travel to go skiing. CBS News radio on was our constant companion across long roadtrips across the entire west, even when casettes and CDs abounded.

News would keep us informed and Mystery Theater would keep us entertained on the drive back home, exhausted, on Sunday evenings.

He's old now, but drove to Wyoming to fish last year from southern California. He said the fishing wasn't any good when he got there, so he turned around and came home before the next day dawned. I wonder what he will listen to this Spring.