Hey Flyover friends! Yeah, Jenna and I are still out there exploring and loving the US of A. In fact, you can and should check in with Jenna’s epic cross-country adventure at Round-Trip America. I was able to join her for a few days in South Dakota and we had a grand time, simply grand. [...]
Posts Tagged ‘road trip’
Storm Watching on the Oregon Coast
Posted in Go, Oregon, Outdoorsiness, Read, Road Trip Tales, tagged Oklahoma, Oregon, Oregon coast, road trip, Round-Trip America, South Dakota, storm chasing, storm-watching, twisters on May 15, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Cross-Country Route Confusion
Posted in How-To: America 101, Road Trip Tales, tagged Alaska, cross-country route, drive, New Jersey, road trip, united states, VW Microbus on November 4, 2009 | 14 Comments »
Nearly 4 million miles of roads. That’s what we’ve got here in the U.S. Those of you who have been reading Flyover America for a while (or, even, for just a post) probably realize that a number like 4 million presents a problem if you’re a Flyover America type in the midst of conjuring up [...]
The Making of a Flyover American
Posted in Flashbulb Memories, Road Trip Tales, Uncategorized, tagged California, Colorado, letter, Nebraska, New York City, road trip, rocky mountains, Utah on October 14, 2009 | 23 Comments »
Flyover America has moved! Please join us at www.ReadFlyoverAmerica.com In 1977, I took my first cross-country trip with two girlfriends. I was 19 years old and, except for 10 days in London when I was 15, I’d never left the East Coast. Actually, I’d barely been out of New York City. Partway through the drive, [...]
David Lynch’s America: Beyond Blue Velvet
Posted in America on Film, tagged Blue Velvet, David Lynch, Independence, Interview Project, Kansas, oral history, road trip, StoryCorps, Twin Peaks, videos on October 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
With David Lynch behind the project, it’s reasonable to expect a layer of surreal* would shroud the Interview Project. His Blue Velvet and Twin Peaks visions of life in America are hardly comforting. They may be fun to watch–especially, it should be said, for college students experimenting with various altered states–but, like a maximum security [...]
I am, therefore I ‘Clark’
Posted in America on Film, Outdoorsiness, State-by-State, tagged camping, Clark Griswold, Matt Villano, National Lampoons, road trip, San Juan Islands, Washington on September 10, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Flyover America has moved! Please join us at www.ReadFlyoverAmerica.com As a total word nerd, I’m always inventing new phrases on road trips. In the lexicon I’ve developed with my friends, “To Clark” means “to overly plan an adventure in an attempt to make sure everyone will have a great time, only to see the plans [...]
Long Live Lobby-Surfing
Posted in Seeing America, tagged California, Harris Ranch, Hilton Garden Inn, Holiday Inn Express, lobby, Matt Villano, road trip, Santa Monica, Sonoma County on August 13, 2009 | 7 Comments »
Flyover America has moved! Please join us at www.ReadFlyoverAmerica.com. Anonymity is alive and well in the heart of the U.S. hotel lobby. With all of the human comings and goings, everyone’s the same. Even at those properties that employ security guards, there is no way for desk clerks to get a commanding sense of which [...]
Another Angle on the American Road Trip Movie
Posted in America on Film, tagged Andre Braugher, Angie Dickinson, Duets, Gwyneth Paltrow, Huey Lewis, Maya Rudolph, movies, Nebraska, Paul Giametti, road trip, road trips, Texas, Thelma and Louise on August 10, 2009 | 8 Comments »
Flyover America has moved! Please join us at www.ReadFlyoverAmerica.com. I’ve found a new-to-me, road-trip flick to add to my list of favorites: Duets which was released in 2000 and stars Paul Giametti, Gwyneth Paltrow (whose dad directed), Huey Lewis and a bunch of other cool people, including cameos by Angie Dickinson and Maya Rudolph. The [...]
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 »
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) [...]
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 [...]
A Twitter Road Trip Twitique: What Worked, What Didn’t
Posted in How-To: America 101, State-by-State, Uncategorized, tagged Alamogordo, New Mexico, road trip, Ruidoso, Truth or Consequences, Twitter on May 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
My husband Tom and I recently drove a loop south from Albuquerque. (Here’s an annotated map of our route, in case you want to follow in our tire tracks.) This was the first time I’ve Twittered from the road. Interestingly, the great to-Twitter-or-not-to-Twitter debate started up on World Hum while I was Twittering my trip [...]
