Flyover America has moved! Please join us at www.ReadFlyoverAmerica.com. No greater test of friendship exists than a six-day road trip in a 32-foot RV (or, if you prefer the industry lingo, motorhome). In college, I would have named seeing my best friend start dating the love of my life/cute boy down the hall (drama, blurgh) [...]
Archive for July, 2009
Thelma and Louise: The Motorhome Edition
Posted in Outdoorsiness, State-by-State, tagged Alaska, friendship, motorhome, road trip, RV, travel companion on July 16, 2009 | 9 Comments »
If You See This Bird, Leave the Vicinity Immediately!
Posted in Outdoorsiness, State-by-State, Uncategorized, tagged Austin, birding, birds, kayaking, loggerhead shrike, Rio Vista Park, san marcos, swimming holes, Texas, tubing on July 13, 2009 | 13 Comments »
Flyover America has moved! Please join us at www.ReadFlyoverAmerica.com. Even though everyone told us, “Austin is dry,” we didn’t think they meant our favorite spot at Barton Springs Creek, where we like to take the Jack the Wonder Dog swimming every morning when we’re in town. But dry it was. As a bone. We were [...]
Top 10 songs for a classic MJV road trip
Posted in American Tunes, tagged Alicia Keys, American Idol, Bruce Springsteen, Cliff Eberhardt, Coldplay, Inca Trail, Lucinda Williams, Martin Sexton, Matt Villano, Nissan X-Terra, Old 97s, Paul Simon, Richard Shindell, Rusted Root on July 10, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Flyover America has moved! Please join us at www.ReadFlyoverAmerica.com. Road trips always have been a huge part of my life. Before I got my license, I traveled with Mom & Dad, folded like a lawn chair into the back seat of their Oldsmobile Calais. Immediately after college, I used my Plymouth Voyager minivan to schlep [...]
Jenna's Picks for an American Road Trip Playlist
Posted in Uncategorized on July 10, 2009 | 7 Comments »
While the invention of iPods made things far easier than the days when we had to go through stack and stacks of cassettes to create the perfect on-the-road mixed tapes, there’s still an art to creating the perfect road trip playlist. It takes time, thought, a sense of humor, and a wide-ranging music collection in [...]
Jenna’s Picks for an American Road Trip Playlist
Posted in American Tunes, tagged Alison Krauss & Union Station, Billie Holiday, Cecil Grant, David Schwartz, Johnny Cash, Kinky Friedman & The Texas Jewboys, Lucinda Williams, music, Northern Exposure, road trip, road trip music, Simon & Garfunkel, The Carter Family, Tom Waits, Wynton Marsalis on July 10, 2009 | 7 Comments »
Flyover America has moved! Please join us at www.ReadFlyoverAmerica.com. While the invention of iPods made things far easier than the days when we had to go through stack and stacks of cassettes to create the perfect on-the-road mixed tapes, there’s still an art to creating the perfect road trip playlist. It takes time, thought, a [...]
Sophia's 10 Songs for an American Road Trip
Posted in Uncategorized on July 10, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Forty-seven percent of road trip success is having the right soundtrack. (The rest is route, scenery, and snacks.) This week Jenna, Matt and I offer you our Flyover America Mix—10 songs each (though we could think of many more) about flyover states. Of course, road songs needn’t have places in them, but that’s just a [...]
Sophia’s 10 Songs for an American Road Trip
Posted in American Tunes, Uncategorized, tagged David Frizzell, Emmylou Harris, John Denver, Johnny Cash, Mac Davis, Merle Haggard, music, road trips, Shelly West, The Flatlanders. Asleep at the Wheel, The Jayhawks, The Lovin' Spoonful on July 10, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Flyover America has moved! Please join us at www.ReadFlyoverAmerica.com Forty-seven percent of road trip success is having the right soundtrack. (The rest is route, scenery, and snacks.) This week Jenna, Matt and I offer you our Flyover America Mix—10 songs each (though we could think of many more) about flyover states. Of course, road songs [...]
Because Underdogs Rock
Posted in State-by-State, tagged New Jersey on July 9, 2009 | 13 Comments »
Growing up in New Jersey, you, quickly, understand what it’s like to live as the underdog. My poor home state. Its wonders are frequently overlooked. Isn’t that just a place where people who commute to NYC live? It’s an easy punchline for most outsiders. New Jersey. Heh heh. Snicker snicker. Yes, I’ll admit that, once [...]
Sophia's Story
Posted in Uncategorized on July 9, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Growing up in New York City, I was deeply indoctrinated in a view of the world that Saul Steinberg’s summed up in his famous 1976 New Yorker magazine cover. There was 10th Ave. and there was New Jersey (which you avoided as much as possible) and then there was a whole bunch of nothing worth [...]
