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#1 I had a dream that was triggered by a condition I’ve suffered from my entire life. I would spend my summer vacations with my father, a traveling machinist for the Continental Can Company, who would take me and my mother and sister to visit canning factories in central and northern Wisconsin.
#2 I spoke to my father, who had died the previous year, on the off chance that he could hear me. I told him that I would always remember him, that I would miss him, and that although we’d had some sharp disagreements, I’d never stopped loving him.
#3 I decided to make an epic road trip across North America to see how the America of 2010 was different from the America of 1996.
#4 In geology, a rift is a long, narrow zone where stresses in the earth’s crust are causing it to rupture. In North America, one such formation is the Rio Grande Rift, which is pulling apart at the rate of two millimeters a year.

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Publié par	Everest Media LLC
Date de parution	23 mars 2022
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781669358473
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	1 Mo

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#1

I had a dream that was triggered by a condition I’ve suffered from my entire life. I would spend my summer vacations with my father, a traveling machinist for the Continental Can Company, who would take me and my mother and sister to visit canning factories in central and northern Wisconsin.

#2

I spoke to my father, who had died the previous year, on the off chance that he could hear me. I told him that I would always remember him, that I would miss him, and that although we’d had some sharp disagreements, I’d never stopped loving him.

#3

I decided to make an epic road trip across North America to see how the America of 2010 was different from the America of 1996.

#4

In geology, a rift is a long, narrow zone where stresses in the earth’s crust are causing it to rupture. In North America, one such formation is the Rio Grande Rift, which is pulling apart at the rate of two millimeters a year.

#5

I wanted an Airstream, as American as the prairie schooner, its bright aluminum body and rounded lines reminiscent of early racing airplanes. I had begun to consider alternatives to an Airstream when a friend introduced me to Rich Luhr, who lived in Tucson.

#6

I would email Luhr with trailer candidates, and he would judge them based on their condition. Very few were acceptable. I began to despair of finding a Goldilocks Airstream, and I encouraged my own discouragement.

#7

I bought a 2007 Toyota Tundra, a pickup capable of hauling a boxcar, and then a hardtop shell for the truck’s bed to provide a home for the dogs. I met the woman who restored and sold antique Airstreams, Erica Sherwood, in Arizona.

#8

I was baptized into the Airstream world, and the process of towing a trailer was explained to me. I was advised to treat the trailer like a beautiful lady who bruises easily.

#9

I started on a shakedown cruise, heading east on I-10 for the Florida panhandle. I was struggling to lift Sage into the truck when a flock of fat, white domestic ducks passed by. The ducks were going to lure her on until she quit or drowned from exhaustion.

#10

I was reluctant to leave my wife behind, but I knew that the lonesome road would be too lonesome if I was alone with Sage. I asked my wife to join me, if she could swing it with her employer.

#11

I heard a lively radio debate about the city’s plans to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the beginning of the Civil War. Someone argued that the ceremonies were going to be too festive for such a somber occasion.

#12

A journey is not worth making if it is not planned out. I spent days planning the trip in my Connecticut office, and when I was finally on the road, I felt like a shopper staring at a hundred different brands of breakfast cereal.

#13

On May 19, Leslie, the dogs, and I pulled into a campground on Stock Island, split from Key West by a mangrove channel scarcely wider than an alley. From Dogwood Farm, we had made a two-day haul down the Florida peninsula through squalls of flying ants called lovebugs.

#14

When we were driving past Mile Marker Zero and the Southernmost Point, we realized that we would have to leave our dogs behind if we took them with us to the Arctic. We decided to leave them in the air-conditioned trailer.

#15

Key West is a tourist town that has been changed by the influx of tourists. It has become an imitation of its former self, its eccentricities commoditized for sale to tourists.

#16

When we were about to load the dogs into the truck, a middle-aged woman named Jenita Meyers came up to us and asked where we were going. I told her we were going to the Arctic Ocean, and she was underwhelmed by our plans.

#17

The Smathers-Merrill family were missionaries in Higgs Beach, a half-mile down the shoreline from Smathers. They were appalled by the scene they saw there: people drinking from daylight till night, and women selling themselves for drugs or alcohol.

#18

Scott Meyers was a missionary who had adopted the native mode of dress. He had grown up in a prosperous household, but when the Great Recession came crashing down, he was unable to find work. He sold everything he had and began walking the country, lending a helping hand to those who needed it.

#19

The Meyerses were not trained counselors, but they had experience ministering to the addicted. They explained that crack dealers from Detroit sold the drug in Huntington for five times what they would get in Detroit.

#20

The Meyerses went off to spend the night in a homeless shelter on Stock Island, and they returned happy and fulfilled. They had renounced their old way of life and were trying to help the marginalized, which ultimately helped them as well.

#21

There is a law that allows any Cuban who manages to get to the United States to obtain a green card if they stay one year and a day. In 2004, Mario Rodriguez got a visa from the U. S. consulate in Quito and flew to Miami. He was just happy to be here.

#22

The author was told that Key West’s latitude was the northernmost from which the Southern Cross was visible. She saw it just once, in 1980, while on a night swordfishing trip in the Gulf Stream.

#23

The author bought two grandes at Sandy’s Café in the Florida Keys, and brought them back to the campground to caffeinate Leslie and him. Harry Wade, a neighbor who was traveling with his wife in an RV as tall as a boxcar, took our picture.

#24

I planned to fill a third of a backpacker’s water bottle at the Pacific Ocean, then top it off at the Arctic Ocean and shake it like a martini mixer, blending the waters that lapped all the coasts of America.

#25

The secret to a successful marriage is to look at it as a mystery beyond your understanding. Love, the deepest mystery of all, does not submit to rational analysis.

#26

We headed north on U. S. 1, which brought us to the Florida Turnpike and into metropolitan Miami's ghastly sprawl. The Florida legislature had voted to dismantle the state's growth management laws because they were unnecessary inhibiting development.

#27

We followed State Route 29 toward Everglades City, a town that was once a haven for bootleggers during Prohibition. It became a tourist town, and its residents exchanged their rattletrap pickups for new SUVs with smoked windows.

#28

The Smallwood Trading Post, a historic landmark, was blocked off by a developer. It was one of the most significant archaeological sites in Florida.

#29

The Calusas were the first developers in Florida. They were a tribe of fierce people, and they built canals and levees out of oyster and clam shells.

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