Route 96

It took forever to get out of Dallas and Fort Worth. The two cities bleed into one another across the Texas plain in a great bland sprawl of strip miles and flat industrial buildings like a hundred miles of Mississauga. Finally we escaped on a little two lane highway going west through bobbing oil derricks [...]

By the time we entered Texas, it was clear that Brown Jenkin’s air conditioner, barely adequate at the best of times, had gotten one taste of Dixie in August and packed itself off to freon heaven. Hoo boy! Just in time for, let’s see: Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, Death Valley, the Mojave Desert… Jack, Bobby, [...]

It’s not just the title of a Supertramp album, it’s a way of life. While New Yorkers and Californians pick away at their sissy little yuppie breakfasts of yogurt and double lattes, in the heartland a nation of truckers and farmers and people with two first names is mowing down acres of hash browns and [...]