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Get off the interstate and notice the details. Lots of beautiful.
by nealabq 14y ago
Get off the interstate and notice the details. Lots of beautiful.
- pasbesoin 14y agoMy father is a... "maphead"; he spends considerable time exploring territory via resources before (and after) he actually gets there. As a result, he'll often know of "parallel" routes -- or sometimes, routes that are actually more direct than the Interstate. In exchange perhaps for a bit of time and a few stops signs, lights, and towns, he'll take a route that is ten times as scenic. If you've never seen Iowa in the fall in afternoon sunlight, you don't know what you're missing. Or winter, for that matter, with the whites, browns, and infinite blue sky. Spring, with the new growth dusting black soil with green. Summer in its extravagance of growth. Sit down at the counter of a local diner, next to a farmer. You may not agree with all his opinions, but you'll find someone at least as informed and mindful of the news as any urbanite you're likely to meet. Small town life can sometimes be stifling, socially. And in the midwest, it's been significantly hollowed out particularly of youth, by ongoing socio-economic changes. But if you're looking, and if you're not -- socially -- stuck there indefinitely, it's not necessarily "boring".
- gcb0 14y agoas someone who traveled a lot by parallel smaller roads recently, i can tell you, the worst problem is that those roads are one or two lanes, full of huge trucks going on at crazy speeds, and often passing each other (even on the one lanes)
- pasbesoin 14y agoI think that is something that has changed. More trucks, and more truck drivers who drive like they're driving a car.
- rdouble 14y agoYou and Garrison Keillor may disagree, but I can assure you, it's boring.
- pasbesoin 14y agoActually, I find too much Keillor boring... ;-) To each his/her own. :-) I'm also someone who simply enjoys driving. For me, it can become almost meditative.
- polarix 14y agoThank you for this, it reinforces my desire to pack everything into storage and fall forward into the eternal road trip. What an amazing country.