September/October 2001
By Jay Walljasper
You’re planning a long-awaited trip and decide to cruise through the travel section of your local bookstore for some inspiration. But what you mostly find in the guidebooks is numbing recitation of details: "Take exit 106 and travel 13.5 miles south on Hwy 212." Whatever happened to the vagabond soul?
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