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TRAVEL BLOG6.29.06
The Interstates and “That William Least Heat-Moon Problem of the Intellectual Wayfarer”
Stuever doesn’t seem to have a William Least Heat-Moon problem, defined as I won’t really see America from the interstates, so I have to get off. To him, as they are for me and many others, I’m sure, the interstates are something to love and loathe at the same time.
The rest of Stuever’s essay is just as terrific. He invokes Joan Didion ("She picked up on the transcendence of wide, open highway; readers took it as disconnect, worry."), discusses the “unmarked Waffle House line” in the U.S. and dives deep into the small joys of driving the interstates.
He goes on:
Less than two months ago, I drove from Los Angeles to my new home in Washington D.C. I took some backroads, but mostly I drove the interstates. I agree with Stuever. The interstates are the “real” America just as much as the backroads are, and it is glorious seeing the country through the windshield, even at 75 mph on a ruler-straight superhighway. Categories: Weblog • Washington D.C.
COMMENTSNevermind that we simply can’t use the interstates the way we have in the upcoming decades due to oil depletion… By on 4.3.07 at 02:41 PM
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