On the Road Again
Are you Willie Nelson or Bob Dylan? Happy to hit the road or wishing you were Simon and Garfunkel, "Homeward Bound"?
I guess it depends on your reason for travel, and of course, your personality. I know people who never leave the town they were born in except for dire necessity, and I know people who keep a suitcase three-quarters packed in case someone suggests a trip. I tend more toward the latter, loving to see new places, but lately it's become a bit much. While I love meeting fans and talking about reading and writing, the travel tends to be repetitive. Motels are all the same, and a person can wake up disoriented, wondering if it's Boston or Buffalo. Restaurant meals have a sameness, too, and of course American cities have become in many ways carbon copies: so many cloverleafs, so many strip malls, so many access roads.
I guess what I need is a real trip, the kind where I see natural sights, visit unique city centers and picturesque countrysides. I think we used to call that a vacation.
I guess it depends on your reason for travel, and of course, your personality. I know people who never leave the town they were born in except for dire necessity, and I know people who keep a suitcase three-quarters packed in case someone suggests a trip. I tend more toward the latter, loving to see new places, but lately it's become a bit much. While I love meeting fans and talking about reading and writing, the travel tends to be repetitive. Motels are all the same, and a person can wake up disoriented, wondering if it's Boston or Buffalo. Restaurant meals have a sameness, too, and of course American cities have become in many ways carbon copies: so many cloverleafs, so many strip malls, so many access roads.
I guess what I need is a real trip, the kind where I see natural sights, visit unique city centers and picturesque countrysides. I think we used to call that a vacation.
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