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...want to see the true America, Mike Bryan contends--and often proves --you have to bypass the blue highways and quaint backroads and hit the Interstate. This he does with the engagingly curious open-mindedness of a true odologist, riding in state-patrol cruisers equipped with "three different sirens--wail, yelp and hi-lo"--and cross-examining moteliers and roadside philosophers at places like the Wes-T-Go Truck Stop outside Abilene, Texas, not so far from where Lee Johnson shows off a half-million-dollar motor coach that does 1,500 miles to a tank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: SIDE TRIPS: AN AMIABLE TOUR OF SOME REAL AMERICAN ORIGINALS | 4/21/1997 | See Source »

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