Memories of Road Trips Past: An Homage to the United States

~ falling in love with a guitar player outside Cafe du Monde and a tour guide named Thom at Fallingwater ~ the knife stabbed into the table in the grocery on Grande Isle ~ Alfredo, with his catfish on a leash on the Rio Grande ~ those biscuits in Texas ~ being surrounded by bison in South Dakota ~ frozen ice at Niagara Falls ~ a room with no clock, no windows, no lock in Pennsylvania ~ a collapsed bridge detour that led to Hog Trough Liquors, Arkansas ~ the Spiral Staircase Store, Maine ~ spending Spring Break indoors ~ the red road ~ abandoned hot springs ~ lonely national parks with Senior Ranger Programs ~ sneaking pictures of signs, with eyes peering out from behind the curtain ~ local fabric stores ~ burros in the car window ~ watching Babel in bed instead of gambling ~ bathtubs and boats after a hurricane ~ the Blue Ridge Mountain Parkway, closed 20 miles in ~ sunsets in the badlands ~ hiking to an oasis in Joshua Tree ~ ice cream-offs ~ peanut butter chocolate shakes at Sonic ~ stepping on seal bones in Newfoundland ~ perfect stones ~ driving across northern Maine with no gas ~ searching for moose ~ Matt on a horse named Panther ~ rafting between the US and Mexico ~ coffee in Moab ~ walking a ridge in Utah ~ fearing mountains lions called javalinas ~ Hannah, the little girl who swept the camp and cared for her big sister ~ the French Creole family ~ getting spooked and ditching camp in Perdido Bay ~ masa ~ bookstores and bagels in Savannah ~ Miss South Carolina walking the wall in Charleston ~ Innervisions ~ trivial pursuit ~ inevitable snow on Colorado highways ~ that fried chicken sandwich in Memphis ~ never stopping at Graceland ~ Black Mesa Winery ~ hail in Canyonlands, Utah~ Cadillac Ranch and the giant cross ~ spying mountain goats ~ taking an egg up the Arch ~ HaHa Cemetary ~ risking the storms at Green Gardens, Gros Morne National Park ~ Petites ~ the floral b & b ~ abandoning the tiniest car ever ~ spotting the Stanley Cup in D.C. ~ mooning a nonexistent crater, reminiscent of the Alhambra ~ sidewinders by the car ~ traffic in Arkansas ~ ~ falling in love over a bottle of wine that you could keep in Maine ~