Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/01/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Tuesday, January 29, 2002, at 10:46 PM, Don Dory wrote: > Brad, when you get six or seven days off, take I-20 west until you hit > Shreveport. Just outside is highway 79. Take it south and follow the > back > roads basically west. Stop often. Savor the differences as East Texas > fades into West Texas. Spend a lot of time in the cafes and bars that > are > in all the small towns Stay off the larger roads. You will discover a > part > of this country that only Sonny C is recording. Some of Robert Frank's > strongest images were taken in these places. i've always wanted to do this. i've become something of a backroads/surface streets freak. my friends constantly fuss at me for taking surface streets in birmingham, when i could take the freeway, but the surface streets are WAY more interesting, especially our rotting former downtown. a lovely drive is from chattanooga to birmingham on old highway 11; another is from birmingham to athens, AL, on 31; and from athens to pulaski, TN, on 127. car & driver magazine featured a route from talladega to tuskeegee as a great drive, but i've never done it. anyhow, i'll have to get a better car first. my '88 volvo 240 wagon--with 190,000+ miles--isn't really up to taking me to amarillo. speaking of which, what was the route from birmingham to atlanta before I-20? 78 maybe? you often hear references to "the old atlanta highway" around here, but i've never actually established what road that is. > Then, sometime when you have another six or seven days off, go to NY or > Boston, or San Francisco. i've walked all over boston and new york, but i've never made it to san francisco. somewhere on the navajo reservation in northern arizona is as far west as i've been. - -- brad daly bwdaly@bigfatpipe.net http://www.bigfatpipe.net/~bwdaly http://www.photo.net/photodb/user?user_id=190241 "War, what is it good for? It's good for business." --Billy Bragg When I get depressed, I just look at our two wiener dogs. You'll never see more of a can-do attitude in a can't-do body than a wiener dog." --Kevin Kling Rap is a continuation of the Sex Pistols; it's quite obvious. --John(nny Rotten) Lydon - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html