Cross Country by Sullivan, Robert -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Title Page Contents Dedication Part I: Setting Out

Off The Real America The Roads Our First Stop Why (We Do This to Them) A Road’s-Eye View Off Again A Few Logistical Details The Needs of Motorists Traveling Today’s Highways Really Off

Part II: Portland, Oregon, to Missoula, Montana

Off in the Great Pacific Northwest My Plans Regarding Lewis and Clark A Problem I Have with the Lewis and Clark Sign The West That Jefferson Thought He Saw The Gorge I Imagined The Noise The Arch Even Though It’s Amazing, We Shouldn’t Have Stopped in the Gorge Through the Gorge The Return of Lewis and Clark Our Journals The Journals of Lewis and Clark Faded Away Rest-Stopping Where There Once Were Falls Interpreting An Aside Regarding the Time I Met Lewis The Forgotten Trail Running Behind on the Forgotten Trail Still Running Behind on the Forgotten Trail When Lewis and Clark Were Forgotten The Point at Which I Reached a Goal, Even Though I Felt We Had to Keep Rushing Lewiston and Clarkston Nez Perce II Into the Bitterroots Lewis and Clark Backward The Last Stage of the First Day of What We Are Still Thinking of as a Four- or Maybe Five-Day Trip Born of Fantasy The Hot Springs

Part III: Missoula, Montana, to Miles City, Montana

Having Crossed the Mountains A New Expeditionary Leaf A Few Words About My Wife as a Cross-Country Driver Mountain Men Chalet Wandering Through Hills Hazards Sailing Past the Pit Crossing Over Homestake Pass An Aspect of Insanity Tumbleweed Ruburb Squeegee Big Timber The Sunset Is Coming, the Sunset Is Coming Pompey’s Pillar Physical Evidence The Last Room in Miles City

Part IV: Miles City, Montana, to Minneapolis, Minnesota

Venture Across America Knowledge of the Nation The Expedition Splits Up, Some Setting Off on Foot Lost We Rejoin Our Party at the Kum & Go On the Island of Gas Pumps See America First The First Time I Saw America A Message from the Car A Brief History of the Automobile in America up to and Including Our Impala OK Tire In the Front Seat, Wondering A Pleasing Fancy “I” Is for Interstate A Good Cause Symbol Expressing the Feeling of the Moment The Man Who Built America’s First Cross-Country Road (or Tried to Build It) Totally Falling In Love Just a Little More About the Man Who Built America’s First Cross-Country Road (or Tried to Build It) Great Great Plains Pal-ship Journals Plains Humor The History of People Publishing Their Own Personal Accounts of Crossing the Country (i.e., Accounts Such as This One) Santa Fe Can’t Shake That Thing Earth Lodge Inspire The Point Late in the Day of a Long Day of Driving Guidebook Reading Booking Ahead The End of the West

Part V: Minneapolis, Minnesota, to Beloit, Wisconsin

Into the East An Imaginary Doughboy The Worst Cross-Country Trip Ever, Part I Welcome Center This Land Is Your Land Coffee The Worst Cross-Country Trip Ever, Part II The Real America More Than Cheese Before the Interstates O Eau Claire The Worst Cross-Country Trip Ever, Part III The Lights of the Dells Streamline Revelation Not Seeing Wisconsin in the Dark Lids Lids Again Turnpikes Passing Madison The First Motel Hoping for Holiday Inn Express To Beloit The Worst Cross-Country Trip Ever, Part IV Psychedelic Jack Kerouac’s Gas Station The Worst Cross-Country Trip Ever, Part V Road Zero The Worst Cross-Country Trip Ever, Part VI The Road Problem I Can Barely See The End of the Worst Cross-Country Trip Ever Exiting Check-in Solving the Road Problem Made for a Bigger Problem Sleep

Part VI: Beloit, Wisconsin, to Bellafonte, Pennsylvania

At the Start of the Day We Are Supposed to Get There The Modern Breakfast Area A Short Digression on Meeting Fellow Travelers in a Breakfast Area My Breakfast in the Breakfast Area The Incident Near the Breakfast Area, in Retrospect The Face of the Country Driving in the East vs. Driving in the West Over the Road Go Cannonball Slow Down Where We Are on the Interstates Water Slogans Portage Child Care Crossing the Fawn River Forgive Me as We Cross the Fawn River Life Line We Enter Ohio Hearing Sports Talk on the Radio In Need of Services How It Came to Be That People Eat Hamburgers and Fries While Driving or Taking a Break from Driving on the Modern Interstate As for Fries Snacks Not the Service Area We Are Hoping to Stop At The Commodore Perry Service Area The Land Beyond the Service Area A Nightmare In the Valley of Oil City Darkness The Highest Point in the Crossing All-Knowing Guide Ways the Author Sees This Particular Situation, the Situation Being Him Beginning to Fall Asleep Behind the Wheel as He Crosses the Appalachians Some Questions About Death on the Highway A Question from the Back Seat A Vision God on the Road Passing The Final Question and Final Answer I Open the Window Swerve A Very Bad Day

Part VII: Getting Home Afterword Notes Acknowledgments A Note on the Author By the same author Praise for Cross Country Imprint

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