In Earl Swift’s, “The Big Roads:  The Untold Story of the Engineers, Visionaries, and Trailblazers Who Created the American Superhighways,” the author tells the story of a cross country road trip and afterwards remembering only the parts where he left the Interstate Highway system.  The Interstate part just being a series of blurs he passed through without really seeing it.  He made good time but didn’t enjoy the ride.

As John Steinbeck famously put it, our Interstate Highway system lets you drive from “New York to California without seeing a single thing.” (more…)