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Charley: In Search of America. In it he famously wrote, "I am in love
with Montana. For other states I have admiration, respect, recog-
nition, even some affection, but with Montana it is love, and it's
difficult to analyze love when you're in it."
As beautiful as that was, he also wrote the following in a way
only he could:
"I sought out (I-90), a wide gash of a super-highway, multi-
ple-lane carrier of the nation's goods. Rocinante bucketed along.
The minimum speed on this road was greater than any I had pre-
viously driven. I drove into a wind quartering in from my star-
board bow and felt the buffeting, sometimes staggering blows of
the gale I helped to make. Instructions screamed at me from the
road: 'Do not stop! No stopping. Maintain speed' Trucks as long
as freighters went roaring by, delivering a wind like the blow of
a fist. These great roads are wonderful for moving goods but not
for inspection of a countryside. You are bound to the wheel and
your eyes to the car ahead and to the rear-view mirror for the car
behind and the side mirror for the car or truck about to pass, and
at the same time you must read all the signs for fear you may miss
some instructions or orders. No roadside stands selling squash
juice, no antique stores, no farm products or factory outlets. When
we get these thruways across the whole country, as we will and
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