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Going Home
by Stephen Hunt | 11.12.01 | 11:53 PM ET
Photo by Michael Yessis. The Greyhound bus takes 51 hours to get from Los Angeles to Winnipeg, just enough time for Stephen Hunt to rediscover a little human decency
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Yahoo! BuzzTaking America’s Pulse
by Michael Yessis | 11.11.01 | 9:30 PM ET
America’s major newspapers are doing an excellent job covering post-September 11 travel issues beyond economics. Some highlights:
“Shalom, Y’all”
by Michael Yessis | 11.06.01 | 8:33 PM ET
The Holy Land Experience, which opened in February 2001, is the latest and, perhaps, most unlikely theme park to grace the sticky air of Orlando, Florida. While it has received ample visitors and a wave of press coverage, few writers have dissected the Experience like GQ‘s pop culture critic, Joe Queenan, who chronicles his visit in the magazine’s November 2001 issue (The story is not available online). Queenan, who is Catholic, hoped the ersatz Holy Land would “give off a sweet savor and settle me in green pastures beside still waters, where I would be delivered from the snare of the fowler.” Eventually, though, he finds many things to make fun of. And he’s very good at making fun of things. “Presumably, we were supposed to feel we were back in Jerusalem in A.D. 70, when Titus laid waste to the Temple,” he writes. “But when push came to shove, it seemed more like A.D. 1972, when Foghat laid waste to Nassau Coliseum.”
In the Wake of September 11
by Michael Yessis | 09.19.01 | 9:01 PM ET
Several readers have passed along links to stories regarding the tragedy in the U.S. We’d like to share:
>> Dave McKenna writes in the Washington CityPaper about attending a soccer game in Rome just after the World Trade Towers were toppled.
>> New York Times writers Jane Fritsch and David Rohde follow the paper trail from the offices, tracking down the owners of resumes, bank records and cell phone statements that floated across the city and as far away as Brooklyn.
>> Sonya Ross of the Associated Press takes readers aboard Air Force One for U.S. President George W. Bush’s post-attack journey from Florida to Louisiana to Nebraska to Washington D.C.
>> In the International Herald Tribune, Roger Collis examines travel in the coming weeks, months and years.
>> In the New York Times, Anthony DePalma writes of his cross-country odyssey from San Diego to Newark in a rental car.
>> CNN’s Nic Robertson fled Afghanistan September 19. He writes about his last week there.
Get Your Kicks on Corporate Sponsored Route 66
by Michael Yessis | 09.06.01 | 9:02 PM ET
California Governor Gray Davis recently announced that the Golden State would cease building new freeways, prompting a fine exploration of the nature of America’s romance with the road by Patricia Leigh Brown. “Highways appeal to the restlessness of the American spirit, the Merry Prankster of Tom Wolfe’s ‘The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test’ in us all,” she writes in The New York Times. “Trains have schedules, car pools involve small-talk and bumping knees and bikes require exercise and sweating under a helmet. The road requires just us.” Note: After September 9 the story will be available only in the Times’ archives.
Iowa Man Takes Road Trip to See His Orange Boxer Shorts, Jesus Night Light and Wal-Mart Jeans
by Michael Yessis | 08.14.01 | 9:13 PM ET
The idea came to John Freyer as he drove from New York to graduate school in Iowa: He would sell all his worldly goods on eBay. With the proceeds, he would then travel around the world to see his former possessions. “I want to figure out what happens to me when I no longer have all these items that supposedly define us,” Freyer, a 28-year-old fine arts student at the University of Iowa, told Washington Post writer Leslie Walker in a recent story. “I also want to know what happens to the people who buy them. I’m going on a road trip to find out.”
Exits and Entrances: An Independence Day Pastoral
by Joel Deutsch | 06.30.01 | 1:03 AM ET
iStockPhoto Amerikanetz Joel Deutsch joins immigrants from the former Soviet Union for a Fourth of July picnic in Los Angeles
The Road to Nirvana is Lined with Wonderful and Entertaining Sights, Such as the “Waterworld” Show
by Jim Benning | 06.22.01 | 11:48 PM ET
Los Angeles Times columnist Steve Lopez heads to Universal Studios theme park to report on the California energy crisis and stumbles upon an unexpected sight: several saffron-robed Buddhist monks from Thailand who couldn’t wait to see the “WaterWorld” show. “Good God,” Lopez writes, “I love California.” We couldn’t agree more.
Early Morning with the Orange Army
by Michael Yessis | 06.01.01 | 1:07 AM ET
Crazed supporters of the Netherlands' national soccer team visited a San Francisco pub to watch them play in Euro 2000. Michael Yessis joined them.
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