Since neither conservatives nor progressives want to read about
Back in the day, when Jack Paar was the host for NBC's Tonight Show, talk show guests were given ample opportunity to tell amusing and entertaining stories. Now the only reason for someone to be on a talk show is to sell some new bit of entertainment such as a movie or album. The stealth talk show sales pitch spawned a new word. Such unpaid ads can be called promobabble.
Traveling and story telling seem to go together like ham and eggs ever since the guy who wrote the "Iliad" the "Odyssey" was in J-school.
As we recall, TV personality Herb Schriner wrote a history of mobile homes.
War correspondent Ernie Pyle traveled about the
Jack Kerouac made a career out of writing about the adventures on the road that he experienced with his pal Neal Cassady.
John Steinbeck wrote "Travels with Charlie" in the early Sixties. Some critics compare that with Robert Louis Stevenson's "Travels with a donkey," which may have provided the motto for travelers with this sentence: "For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move."
If that philosophy appeals to you, then you might want to do some Googleing and investigate the possibilities offered by spending July in
Speaking of an endless summer on the road, we noticed that the
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