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D3: Poet’s Recession Road Trip: Don Quixote in West Texas

Highway 10 through Texas doesn’t have any of the large oil fields, but you do spot the occasional lone rusty well or sometimes a small cluster. What you do see though are the massive wind farms of Central/West Texas. Driving west the first batch are off in the distance behind hills, you can’t really judge [...]

Day 2: Poet’s Recession Road Trip – Austin, The Promised Land?

STARBUCKS, AUSTIN – After leaving Gonzales, LA hit the road through southern LA and TX, This is a land of bridges, being down in the wetlands and where so many of the great American rivers come to the Gulf (see poem below). I’m reminded of the power of rivers and water, not so much in [...]

Day 1 (Cont’d) The Gulf Coast: Casinos, Katrina, and Space Capsules

New post-Katrina bridge construction on I-10 coming into New Orleans
GONZALES, LOUISIANA – I’ve had to come up wiht a new cover story. In striking up conversations with people, the whole “I’m a writer and blogger” thing has been a conversation killer, people don’t know how to relate. Plus with the scruffy beard stubble, the Andy [...]

DAY 1: Poet’s Recession Road Trip, GA, AL, LA – Riding the Kudzu Wave

  
 
 
 
 
   
 
 
STARBUCKS, MOBILE AL -I got little sleep last night with final technology glitches and coordinating trip details, but my friend Collin was nice enough to pick me up and drop me off at the subway station pretty much at the crack of dawn.
I was surprised to see the main subway station in downtown Atlanta literally [...]