tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23031833.post1757804584009889857..comments2023-03-26T03:02:24.988-05:00Comments on Colicky Baby Records and Tapes: Take This, Rick Steves: Travel Blog Report: This Wheel's on Fire: From D.C. to Newark in Three Beautiful, Appalling HoursStronger Than Dirt Pete Mosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02032568997365156537noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23031833.post-28632903221872950732009-04-09T09:15:00.000-05:002009-04-09T09:15:00.000-05:00I like the idea of a reality TV show called "Ameri...I like the idea of a reality TV show called "America's Most Fucking Squalid Views." I've made the D.C.-to-Newark trip via Amtrak. Hell, I lived for 4 years in the spot "five minutes outside Our Nation's Crapital" (this would be Hyattsville/Riverdale, MD) where the landscape hicks the hell up. Of course it's always more like that by the tracks -- that's why the tracks are there in the first place, and then once the tracks are there, no one who can afford not to moves within earshot of the trains. <BR/><BR/>But you're right about the particular concentration of an America abandoned that should have been a big clue to anyone watching that the boom of the last decade was built on a soap-thin bubble that was already popped five minutes from anywhere.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10971071260421745603noreply@blogger.com