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'Buried bodies gurgle upwards through the saturated earth. Headless ghosts stalk the corridors of town houses.'

'Everybody's cutting loose and hitting the road.' 🏜

'The past is gone, as is the future. There is only that moment. The unfortunate thing is that you have to leave it.'

'There's no hope when people can't think.'

'There was no one around, just this preternatural, untouched landscape.'

'It was like a morgue coming fitfully to a half-life, then receding.' 💀

'In the morning, light poured through the window of my room. I looked out. The sun had blanched and reduced everything to an incorporeality. The land itself was nearly invisible.'

'He'd let me up to a point just short of a bloodstained finale, then veered into comedy.'

'Outside after a while the wind dropped, the sky cleared and a full moon appeared, white and vast in the sky.'

I love traveling because it gives me a deep sense of freedom while opening my eyes to new experiences and discoveries.

The road wound through forest land and I pulled over for a moment to look at it. The leaves were wet from a brief rain. A breeze stirred the branches. Water moved through a stream, the rocks clicking like billiard balls. The leaves were orange as pumpkins, red as embers. Beads of rainwater moved over their veins and then fell, shafts of sunlight catching them. The road ran before me like a body uncoiling from sleep.

A literary road trip, because 'The road is life'.

'You are out under the open sky, devouring the continent, lost to the world, every stage a piece in an allegory. You are free. No one knows who you are.'

Introduction! 🇺🇸