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 [...]
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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 »
Divided against itself
Posted in The Southeast, tagged Albemarle, Civil War, generational gap, information age, North Carolina, Wal-Mart on June 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Since we got out of D.C., I have started noticing more and more clues that we are now in The South. We passed out first gunsmith just north of Richmond, Virginia—a standoffish cinderblock building with no windows called “Charlie’s Place.” Just west of Red Cross, North Carolina, we passed a roadside store selling hunting perches. [...]
