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Road Trips
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All I've ever been good at is telling somebody else's story.
You think that's nothing? There is no 'somebody' until somebody tells their story. The world needs witnesses.
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Here the earth, as if to prove its immensity, empties itself. Gertrude Stein said: 'In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. That is what makes America what it is.' The uncluttered stretches of the American West and the deserted miles of roads force a lone traveler to pay attention to them by leaving him isolated in them. This squander of land substitutes a sense of self with a sense of place by giving him days of himself until, tiring of his own small comp
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― Blue Highways
― Blue Highways
What better way to spend July than reading road trip books? They're perfect summer reads; light,…more
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