Word: mattes
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...Politicians are saying, ‘We understand your pain,’” Andrew said in mid-August, a month after his trip ended and a few weeks after Hurricane Katrina destroyed the city where I had first joined him and Matt. “Clearly, I could feel it a little bit more and conceptualize it a little more because I’d been there. There’s people that we know there...
Weeks later, the trip over, Matt and Andrew were off the road—and back online. Browsing Google, they learned the full scope of Toby Keith’s repertoire. But when Matt talked to his parents about the last eight weeks, he mentioned “As Good As I Once Was” anyway and even downloaded the song for them to hear. So he and Toby Keith had some ideological differences; so what...
...only thing predictable about a road trip, Matt and Andrew repeatedly told me, is that nothing is predictable. But in my week with them, a routine emerged: they would say how thankful they were to be able to take the trip, and then, like thunder after lightning, they would say that everyone in America who could should do the same thing. True, they’ll never really get America, just like no matter how hard they try, no one will ever know what Harvard students really want. But, Matt says, “between no understanding and a better...
...picked up a stack of TripTiks, but it is also probably a little bit unfeasible. Travels around America will in all likelihood remain what they seem to have irrevocably become: the domain of retirees, foreign tourists, and the occasional presidential nominee. At best, a handful of members of Matt and Andrew’s generation with the means and the balls to drop everything and drive will suck up their pride and join the silver-haired crowds. Most likely, however, they will not arrive in a 1999 Volvo, but on a campaign bus. They might not even set foot...
...We’re never going to be able to call them up and talk to them again,” Matt said. “But we hope and wonder...