“Now what’s going to happen to us without barbarians? Those people were a kind of solution.” —C.P. Cavafy
Hitting the road. Lighting out for the territory. Kissing off. Getting your kicks on Route 66. Driving around in your automobile, your baby beside you at the wheel… These are time-honored American traditions. The nomadic impulse is deep in the American grain, and, despite many other accusations one might level, no one would ever accuse the population of the United States of being sedentary (or, at least, would not have done so until the dawn of the age of the couch potato and his more recent phone-scrolling spawn, empowered to do a piddling bit of “roaming”).
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