‘The Making of a Flyover American’
Travel Blog • Michael Yessis • 10.15.09 | 4:09 PM ET
Feel a traveler’s love for the United States bloom through the excerpts of a 32-year-old letter World Hum contributor Sophia Dembling shares at Flyover America. She wrote it during her first cross-country drive when she was a teenager.
Partway through the drive, I started writing a letter to my brother documenting the trip. I wrote 14 pages, all the way through the final leg of the drive, San Francisco to L.A. Nick saved the letter and returned it to me a few years ago. As literature, it’s unimpressive. But as a record of the awakening of a provincial city girl, it’s kinda special.
Indeed.
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Michael Yessis is the cofounder and coeditor-in-chief of World Hum.
Megan Hill 10.15.09 | 4:50 PM ET
Very cool. I love finding old musings…usually not for their literary value, but it’s fun to rediscover old memories. Looking forward to reading the excerpts next!