A farmer in his pickup truck in Alabama was driving across a bridge when he noticed a man standing on the rail of the bridge ready to jump to his death in the river below. The man stopped his truck ran up to the man and said, 'Hey fellow, why are you doing this?'
The man replied, 'Well, I have nothing to live for.'
The Alabama man replied, 'Well, think of your wife and children!'
The jumper replied, 'I have no wife or children.'
The Alabama man then said, 'Well, then think of your mother and father!'
The man replied, 'Mom and Dad passed on many years back.'
The Alabama man then said, 'Well, think of General Robert E. Lee!'
The would-be jumper replied, 'Who?'
With that the Alabama man said, 'Jump, you stupid Yankee, jump'
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Mundane Journeys through an Amazing World begins with Interstate 80. Not the most engaging topic, I know, but when you think about it, I-80 runs all the way across the North American continent linking San Francisco and New York. It's not just a ribbon of asphalt, it's a portal to far away, almost magical places.
My visits to major cities like Tokyo, London and Washington DC have been business affairs. I haven't rode a lot of roller coasters or ridden in open air buses, but I have visited with senators, bought yams from the back of a truck and barely escaped complete embarrassment when I was introduced to Matt Wiener in Vegas.
As I wrote the book I realized that over the years exotic, distant places have become more like the mundane places I've called home. But, as it turns out, there really aren't any mundane places, only mundane ways of looking at things.
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