Two Writers, 50 States, Endless Stories
Posted in Eat and Drink, Three-fer Friday on Apr 30th, 2010
Some people get all high horsey about healthy eating and good nutrition and all those things I care about but don’t treat as a religion.
Me, I got no high horse. I eat my broccoli, mostly because I have to. I eat lima beans. I actually like those. But I also eat Costco gourmet chocolate chunk [...]
Posted in Alabama, Arkansas, Listen, New Jersey, Three-fer Friday on Apr 23rd, 2010
The unimaginable has happened. You’re on a really long road trip and the radio/MP3 player/whatever jams. You can’t turn it off. You can’t make it skip to the next song or back to the last. But, by some miracle, it got stuck on one of the only songs you could listen to on repeat for [...]
OK, you’ve rocked (etc.) with Jenna’s road trip mix, now it’s time to sing along with mine.
When I hit the highway for a road trip, I start on a Texas highway—big, bold, bright, and straight-on for miles. As far as I’m concerned, it’s all about country music. (Mostly, anyway.) And since I have a weakness [...]
It’s a tic of the modern-day writing life: if you write a blog, you get, say, a drop obsessive about checking your web stats. Part of the joy of that task is finding out what web searches brought new readers to your site. Turns out a whole lot of people like to search for road [...]
Posted in Arkansas, Do, Eat and Drink, Oklahoma, See, Three-fer Friday on Apr 16th, 2010
A good road trip is as much about the stopping as the going and we all have our must-stops—for some people it’s diners, for some it’s a glorious view, for some it’s a state-line-sign photo op. And that’s the topic of today’s Three-fer.
Joining us is an underground hero and a Dallas celebrity, Bucks Burnett—record dealer; [...]
Posted in Go, New York, Three-fer Friday on Feb 5th, 2010
Love, love, love. During the Valentine’s Day season (I’ve been spotting heart-shaped candy boxes in the shops since December), you either love hearing about it or love to hate it. This time of year, travel is all about the romantic getaway. As if true lovers really need spa treatments and roses and for romance. (Not [...]
Posted in Alaska, Discuss, Do, Go, New Jersey on Nov 4th, 2009
Nearly 4 million miles of roads. That’s what we’ve got here in the U.S. Those of you who have been reading Flyover America for a while (or, even, for just a post) probably realize that a number like 4 million presents a problem if you’re a Flyover America type in the midst of conjuring up [...]
Posted in California, Colorado, Go, Nebraska, New York, Utah on Oct 14th, 2009
In 1977, I took my first cross-country trip with two girlfriends. I was 19 years old and, except for 10 days in London when I was 15, I’d never left the East Coast. Actually, I’d barely been out of New York City. Partway through the drive, I started writing a letter to my brother documenting [...]
With David Lynch behind the project, it’s reasonable to expect a layer of surreal* would shroud the Interview Project. His Blue Velvet and Twin Peaks visions of life in America are hardly comforting. They may be fun to watch–especially, it should be said, for college students experimenting with various altered states–but, like a maximum security [...]
As a total word nerd, I’m always inventing new phrases on road trips.
In the lexicon I’ve developed with my friends, “To Clark” means “to overly plan an adventure in an attempt to make sure everyone will have a great time, only to see the plans backfire, causing disastrous results.”
The verb is a direct reference to [...]
