This will be my last post for a couple of weeks. I'm off on a US road trip!
My last big US road trip was Summer 1976. Berkeley to New York, by a very circuitous route. This one will be shorter, down the Atlantic coast, across to the Gulf of Mexico and back up along the Mississippi (unless we change our minds). I am really curious to see how the country has changed in 33 years.
The timing is good: gas is relatively cheap; motels relatively empty (according to Calculated Risk, though he didn't have stats for campsites); and the loonie is at 80 cents (it was at par 33 years ago). And I'm on sabbatical :-).
Yikes! That means I have to pick up some of the slack.
In case readers are wondering, while Nick has been on sabbatical this year, all my teaching has been piled onto the winter session. As a result, Nick has been carrying the bulk of the posting load - and doing a darn good job of it, if our steadily-improving stats are anything to go by.
Posted by: Stephen Gordon | March 28, 2009 at 03:13 PM
Down the Atlantic coast, you say...
Posted by: Mandos | March 29, 2009 at 06:01 PM
nice! have fun! I wish I was going on a US road trip
my one tip: watch what you eat! I found it really difficult to eat decently while on the road in the states. Those giant greasy meals get really hard on you after a few days. I try to save the "big greasy" meals for local specialties like BBQ, soul-food, philly cheese-steaks, creole etc. and I try to eat healthy the rest of the time. That is easier said than done in a lot of areas, where they literally serve whipped-cream slathered fudge sundaes for dessert... at breakfast! I'd never heard of a breakfast dessert in Canada. The contemporary American diet is a real eye-opener. Subway is a lifesaver.
Posted by: bob | March 29, 2009 at 06:43 PM
Nick: Happy Trails! We'll miss your posts -
Kevin
Posted by: kevin quinn | March 30, 2009 at 11:13 AM
Sounds like you are deliberately seeking out the crazies. Have you seen "Red Staters"?
Posted by: reason | March 31, 2009 at 04:26 AM
I just got back from a whirlwind trip to Myrtle Beach, SC, for a few rounds of golf.
Compared to here, gas might as well be dirt cheap. The further south you go, the gas gets cheaper. It was close to a 1.90 per gallon in SC.
Posted by: Adam M | March 31, 2009 at 09:01 AM