Road Trips

  • Wonderful Old Guidebooks

    Who would take along a 1930s guidebook on a cross-country road trip across the United States? John Steinbeck, for one! Steinbeck makes reference to a set of depression-era guidebooks in his well-known travelogue Travels with Charley: In Search of America, which is about his 1960 road trip around the U.S. with his French standard poodle… Continue reading

  • Get Lost (Part 5)

                             (Fifth in a series) Now I don’t know what I’ll find…           Just want to get in the car and drive… Been living too long this way…                                                It’s getting me down…                I know what I need…                                    What I need…             California sun…      It’s calling me… Next stop Calistoga and Napa: 1 day, 1 night… Continue reading

  • Get Lost, (Part 4)

    (Fourth in a series) Low ebb, high tide…                       The lowest ebb and highest tide…       I guess we took us for a ride… I guess it’s just a gesture…              At the end of the continent…                                       At the edge of the continent… Get Lost enters California: First stop Eureka and Fort Bragg:… Continue reading

  • Get Lost (Part 2)

                                 There are signs…                Dividing in…                               That I couldn’t abide…  I wouldn’t miss it again…          Burning every bridge that I cross…               To find some beautiful place…                                            To get lost… First stop was Portland: 2 nights, 2 days We pulled on to Division Street around ten at night, parked the car, unloaded the bare necessities,… Continue reading

  • Get Lost (Part 1)

    Road trippin’ with my two favorite allies… Fully loaded we got snacks and supplies… It’s time to leave this town… It’s time to steal away… Let’s go get lost… Anywhere in the U.S.A. Let’s go get lost…                                                                  Let’s go get lost… As a teenager I couldn’t wait to go on a road trip, but with… Continue reading