This story originally aired Sept. 29, 2016.
Circling the Globe and Coming Back to Texas
This land’s been good to Liz Rogers. After circumnavigating the globe, she was just happy to be back home in the big, wide, open area of West Texas.
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After she retired, Liz Rogers of Alpine, Texas took a train and a freighter "to see how the big the world was."
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