Pretty good practical joke, Cris P.

What is gigib??

I do indeed know this documentary - I believe it is based on THE HITCHER, well known in the film world for its true-to-life depiction of a family trip on Route 66. By all means stock up at Wal*Mart & hit the road. Bon voyage!

Cris P Bacon

"Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel across the country from coast to coast without seeing anything. From the Interstate, America is all steel guardrails and plastic signs, and every place looks and feels and sounds and smells like every other place." -- Charles Kuralt, On the Road with Charles Kuralt



See if you can find a copy of "On the Road with Charles Kuralt" easy reading and filled with small town Americana.

http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/K/...uraltcharl.htm

http://www.us-highways.com/

http://www.interstate50th.org/index.shtml

Same thing as Weldon Berger.

Ha! Now here is a story that it true, Cris. This happened to friends of mine. They were driving through the mountains in western Virginia at night, when they came upon a car stopped by the side of the road with the hood up. They stopped to see if they could help. The wife, in the passenger seat, rolled down her window and the husband leaned over her to say, "Can we help you?"

The man didn't say anything but started to walk around the car to the driver's side. The woman said to her husband urgently, "Drive. Just hit the gas and drive." He took off. (She said later she could tell by the look in his eyes that he was not right)

The guy with the supposedly disabled vehicle shut the hood and jumped in his car and started chasing them. The road was twisting and it was night, remember? My friends were scared to death. They managed to get far enough in front of him and somehow hailed a semi-truck. The truck stopped and my friend got out and told the driver there was a nut chasing them and asked the driver to escort them to the nearest town. So, with the Semi immediately behind them, the weird guy caught up. He gave up and drove past them.

Then drove the rest of the way home, to Norfolk VA. They called the sheriff in the town near where this incident happened and told him, but what was to be done about this? Nothing.

About a week later, my friend found a photo of this guy in the paper. He had been arrested on suspicion of being a serial killer. He had murdered a few families who had stopped to help him when he feined a breakdown. My friend called the police and said this was the guy who had stopped them, but they were never interviewed or called to testify. They never found out what happened (This was before the internet, when you can find out about just about anything.).

And that is a real live true story and when my friends tell it, you get goosebumps listening.

If you can swing through Montana, I would do that, if even in winter. The mountains are beautiful and there is wildlife to see and cozy lodges, etc. Check out Chico Hot Springs in Paradise Valley by Yellowstone park.

I did a trip report on a recent family cross country trip/Alaska cruise that includes driving from Kentucky to Vancouver and returning, using two different routes. We thoroughly enjoyed South Dakota as well as Rocky Mountain, Grand Teton, and Yellowstone NPs and Seattle. We stopped at Dinosaur, but the main part of it is closed for repairs.

If you didn't see it and are interested, the report is called Across the Wide Missouri and North to Alaska.