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Arizona, California, New Mexico, The West Coast

Our Broken Asphalt Heart: Reflections on Route 66 (Part 2)

May 4, 2012 / by Malcolm Logan

A bright, enchanting New Mexico morning. I pull onto the interstate, old 66 running beside. The land slides and yaws like water in a bucket, waves of rolling terrain, an ocean of ochre colored grass flecked with sagebrush and streaked with greens and reds. The mountains heave themselves up, haughty,…

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Illinois, Missouri, Oklahoma, Texas, The Midwest, The Plains States

Our Broken Asphalt Heart: Reflections on Route 66 (Part 1)

March 21, 2012 / by Malcolm Logan

It was once hailed as “The Mother Road,” saluted as “Main Street U.S.A.”. There have been songs written about it, books, movies, a television show. In our collective imagination it carries us back to a more innocent time, when America was young, when entrepreneurialism was grass roots, before cookie cutter…

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My name is Malcolm Logan. I travel America.

Some folks say they know what America is. Lots of folks say they know what it ought to be. I say let’s have a closer look, because America is not so easy to pin down.

The only way to get a true sense of this extraordinary country is to immerse yourself in it, and the only way to immerse yourself in it is to explore it – by car.
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