On Sun, Sep 29, 2013 at 9:49 AM, michael yates <mikedjyates at msn.com> wrote:
> Full at
> http://cheapmotelsandahotplate.org/2013/09/29/road-beckons-excerpt-cheap-motels-hot-plate/
>
>
> We have been on the road for 12 years. It's interesting how your
> perspective on life changes when you see things firsthand. Anyone can talk
> or write about the environment or the economy or what people in the US are
> like, for example, but to see the devastation wrought by mining and
> agriculture, to see the thousands of gas wells in Wyoming, Colorado, and
> Utah, to see the low wage labor that makes the nation's economy tick, to
> see the bleak landscape the Navajo call home, to talk to people, to have
> small joys in strange places, well these have, taken together, made us feel
> confident in what we say about this country. I am proud that there are very
> few descriptions of things we have witnessed or analyses of why things are
> the way they are that I have had to retract since the book was published.
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