Side-note: Anyone of the newer generation, seeking to hear this song on YouTube, should be aware that there were two distinct versions with different lyrics. The original is here: Convoy , Original lyrics.
The alternate version (which I don’t think has Friends of Jesus or a chartreuse microbus or a suicide jockey), from the movie, is this one.
As I recall, going east to west you go through St Louis - Joplin, Missouri - then Oklahoma City which I hear is mighty pretty. You see Amarillo - Gallup, New Mexico - Flagstaff, Arizona (don’t forget Winona) -Kingman - Barstow - and finally San Bernandino.
Sounds like a kick.
I’m hip to your tip.
I assume you are fitting a song lyric in here, but, to be a wet blanket, I have seen OKC, and it looks like a city. Honestly, every American city looks exactly like every other American city, even after you factor in the Cadillac ranch or the Gateway Arch or the Space Needle or the French Quarter or whatever. If you like cities, they are all pretty, but they are all the same.
As for going west to east, it kinda depends on your personal preference, but once you get out to Santa Rosa, you are faced with some 600 miles of flat notmuch. after going through the southwest, where there is at least something to see out there, you hit the great plains, and if you are not ready for it, it can drain your soul.
Each town looks the same to me, the movies and the factories…
It’ll sure drain your windshield washer fluid during bug season
You can’t be serious!
Unless you mean “they have houses and streets and lots of concrete and cars, therefore they are all the same.” Then yeah, NYC looks just like Miami and just like Amarillo.
I am serious. I have seen dozens of American cities, and even walked around in a few of them. There are some subtle differences, but they all look and feel the same. The homogenization of American culture is breathtaking and disheartening.
Yeah, San Francisco has the same look and feel as Las Vegas, which has the same look and feel as Seattle, which has the same look and feel as Chicago, which has the same look and feel as Philadelphia, which has the same look and feel as Boston.
I call bullshit.
I might agree with this statement if one never leaves I-40 or I-80. But I also could say the same statement driving I-5 through the Central Valley of California.
This is why I drive 99 instead of I-5.
Stay off the interstates!
Yes, because a four lane controlled-access divided highway without an I in its name is so much more pure than an evil interstate.
And besides, when the fog rolls in, the view is comparable…
Yes, and it will steal your soul on both highways.
Despite a slight return this past winter, fog hasn’t been a thing for years.
Was there a cool wind in your hair, by any chance?
I drove north on 99 about six years ago just for a change of pace from I-5 and was going to go east at Sacramento anyway. Never again. The road surface was in such bad condition I was considering going more than 20 miles due west at Los Banos.
Sadly, there is 15 between St. George and Mesquite, 70 between Frisco and Rifle, 94 in western ND where it goes right through tie Teddy Roosevelt Park South-section, 5 where it wraps right around the foot of Shasta, 84 between Troutdale and The Dalles and probably a few more unfortunately placed stretches of freeway marring otherwise excellent views.
When I drove through Kansas, I took US 50 to avoid the interstate, which was just a straight shot with no scenery.
