Crash Route U.S.A. - Fashion photo-spread, 1969

[Joe Allonby]

This is a romantic recurring theme of  the American experience.

When offered a job as an over-the-road trucker on a Boston to Oakland route,
I jumped at the chance.

I drove across the continent 13 times in 11 months. I was not a tourist, I
was a worker. I saw America in a way that few people know or understand who
have not done this. I fell in love with it. I got drunk and almost killed in
cowboy bars in Utah. I found all-you-can-eat BBQ joints in Arkansas. I
learned never to eat pizza in Oklahoma.

Most importantly, I fell in love with the grandeur of the open spaces.

On Dec 23, 2007 5:20 AM, Werner Presber <wernerpresber at yahoo.de> wrote:

> Zitat:
>
> „Whether influenced by Kerouac's 'On The Road' or the curiosity of
> the era, there were indeed
> record numbers of young people who traveled around America in the
> latter half of the 1960's.
>
> Some wandering, exploring, seeking to 'find themselves'...
> ...and like everything under the sun, it was only a matter of time
> before the whole experience would be co-opted and merchandised into
> the mainstream.
>
> This particular skewed vision of the 'Rock & Roll Gypsy' lifestyle
> appeared in Look Magazine in 1969."
>
>
>
> Read more at „I´m learning to share"
>
>
>
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