Garrison Keillor: ‘I’m Nostalgic for the Long Car Trip’
Travel Blog • Michael Yessis • 01.04.08 | 2:14 PM ET
Some inspired travel-related musings from the bard of Lake Wobegon this week in Salon. In Just Follow the Map, he writes:
I drove out to Milan, watching the little blue circle advance on the Living Map. This was not the Milan north of Florence, this was the one (pronounced MY-lan) east of the Minnesota River in Chippewa County, and on the way out there and back, I pondered my own troubles, which, to be honest with you, don’t require that long a trip. Especially not after seeing Julian Schnabel’s beautiful movie, “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly,” about a young French journalist who suffers a massive stroke and writes his memoirs by blinking his left eye for each letter of each word as a woman recites the alphabet. The movie makes you feel that a two-hour drive across snowy western Minnesota is a vast luxury, which indeed it is.
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* Bernard-Henri Lévy to Garrison Keillor: Bring it On!
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Michael Yessis is the cofounder and coeditor-in-chief of World Hum.
