Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel across the country from coast to coast without seeing anything.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Interstate highways dull the reality of place and distance almost as effectively as jetliners do: I loathe their scary monotony.
Whenever I get a free day, I drive up to some part of California that looks promising on the map.
There's no need to travel further. The Los Angeles area is big enough for us.
There's something scary, knowing that in Florida, someone can pick you up in a car and drive you to 50 states. Back home, it's like, 'Girl, you're 15 minutes away.'
America's highways, roads, bridges, are an indispensable part of our lives. They link one end of our nation to the other. We use them each and every day, for every conceivable purpose.
Flying over New Orleans on our approach, I got it. There was no view of land without water - water in the great looming form of Lake Pontchartrain, water cutting through in tributaries, water flowing beside a long stretch of highway, water just - everywhere.
Traveling is seeing; it is the implicit that we travel by.
I've been on every interstate highway in the lower forty-eight states by now, and I never get tired of the view.
We didn't build the interstate system to connect New York to Los Angeles because the West Coast was a priority. No, we webbed the highways so people can go to multiple places and invent ways of doing things not thought of by the persons building the roads.
As you make your way along life's tumultuous highways, it's important to note that you should always carry a map, have plenty of fuel in the tank, and take frequent rest stops.