Albuquerque took a toll on us.
We had originally planned to drive directly from Santa Fe westward toward Gallup, where we would stop at a hotel halfway to our next destination in Arizona that Rachel’s cousin had recommended. But at the last minute we heard that John McCain was going to be giving a talk in [...]
Posts Tagged ‘urban sprawl’
Change
Posted in The Southwest, tagged Albuquerque, change, John McCain, Old Town Albuquerque, politics, slump, urban sprawl, Walgreens on July 18, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Road to Birmingham
Posted in The Southeast, tagged Alabama, Birmingham, Swann Covered Bridge, urban sprawl on June 24, 2008 | 3 Comments »
The sprawl lining the road from Hazel Green south toward Birmingham had more personality than the formulaic strip malls that barricaded in the highly-trafficked corridors outside Atlanta and Charlotte and everywhere else, though this is not to say they were necessarily less ugly. The Wal-Mart and Lowe’s empires still had feudal outposts here, but the [...]
Road to Rome
Posted in The Southeast, tagged Georgia, Martha's Skillet, Rome, Rome News-Tribune, strip malls, urban sprawl, Wal-Mart on June 18, 2008 | 1 Comment »
We headed north late the next morning, setting our sights on Nashville. It was only three and a half hours away, so we decided to take our time on back roads.
The first stretch of US-41 was a corridor of ceaseless strip-sprawl, with the same clusters of chain restaurants and big box stores lining the [...]
