It’s one of the things you do when you’re in Winston-Salem. You see the giant coffee pot. You eat some Krispy Kreme Donuts. You take a picture of the big downtown building that looks like a penis. And you stroll around Old Salem, or in our case – given a mom that doesn’t get...
“Cruise Control” Cursed cruise control A mind-numbing way to drive Much less live your life (To see the entire collection of ”Highway Haiku,” click here)
Name: Underdog Breed: German shepherd Age: 3 Encountered: On I-40, then at a liquor store parking lot in Maumelle, Arkansas. Backstory: When a pickup truck was passing me on Interstate 40 in Arkansas, I did that quick little sideways look we all do — or at least I do. I’m not sure why I...
We started off on Carefree Highway, got some kicks on Route 66, spent some time standing on a corner in Winslow, Arizona, and ended up at a Motel 6 in Albuquerque. That last one isn’t a song, though the price of a room was — only $29.99. Day one of the trip back home — which will be...
I’m not sure who’s behind it, but in the flatlands of eastern Washington — before the westbound traveler gets to the far more magnificent side of the state — someone has decided to label the crops. “Crop names in fence lines next 14 miles,” reads a sign on Interstate 90, somewhere west of Moses Lake...
Try as I might, I couldn’t figure out what these long tubes I kept passing on Interstate 94 in Montana were. Airplane wings? Some new form of irrigation equipment? Space shuttle components? Pieces of some secret governmental weapon? I was tilting at windmills. Which is what they turned out to be — windmill blades, to...
Since I decided nearly three months ago to get on the road again — that I was going mobile — I’ve reached a few conclusions: Life is a highway. Every day is a winding road. And, though I may not be a highway star, or king of the road, I have been runnin’ down a dream, and...
Here’s an exit sign that piqued my curiosity — enough to make me veer off the interstate to figure out just what makes a pumpkin Baptist, and why they need their own center. Are Baptist pumpkins preachier? Do they go all fire and brimstone? Do they achieve life everlasting, or is that dream just...
Name: Bear Breed: Lab-shepherd mix Age: Unknown Encountered: An exit ramp off eastbound I-40 near Clines Corners, N.M. Headed: Home to Bristol, Virginia From: Unknown Travel habits: Easygoing, but his owners — a husband, wife and son — ran into car trouble and spent all $400 they had on fixing the radiator. So they...
When you get off the Interstate Highway system, the country becomes a far more interesting place. We finally did that today, for the first time on this trip, leaving behind all the monotonously lookalike exits to get a taste of yet-to-be homogenized America, where some character still exists. Our drive across Alabama from Huntsville...
