‘Traveler’: Conspiracy Theories Meet ‘On the Road’
Travel Blog • Michael Yessis • 05.10.07 | 9:03 AM ET
What happens when three Yale grad students on summer break plan to travel the United States not using a guidebook but Jack Kerouac’s “On the Road,” but before they can embark, the member of the trio with the oh-so-descriptive name Will Traveler seems to blow up a New York City museum in such a way that his friends Jay and Tyler look responsible, so the duo kicks off its road trip not as a modern day Sal and Dean but as suspected terrorists terrified of getting picked up and hauled to Guantanamo for a crime they didn’t commit? Find out tonight at 10 p.m. when ABC debuts Traveler, or just read Tom Shales’ review in the Washington Post, which contains this hilarious passage:
Oh, they’re a thoughtful trio of pranksters, exchanging such profundities as: “Gotta see the world before you can change it.” It appears they will confine themselves to the North American part of “the world,” however, since their stated goal is to “step off the path and see what makes this country tick.”
ABC has previews of “Traveler” on its Web site.
Photo of the cast of Traveler courtesy ABC.
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Michael Yessis is the cofounder and coeditor-in-chief of World Hum.
