Mayami to San Pacho (Florida to California)
Coast to Coast (The quest for freedom)
By visiting "welcome to gringolandia" you will travel with Camilo Bautista & Ramon Manrique through more varied cultural and physical landscapes than you’ll find along any other cross-country route in the United States. During our 3000 + mile journey (some 5200 kilometers) we will be posting pictures, videos and notes of a surreal trip taking us from the Latino-friendly city of Miami, Florida (Mayami) to the amazing San Francisco, California (San Pacho). The route’s central segment crosses the thousand-mile, “you can see for two days” plains of New Mexico and Texas, where pump jacks jig for oil and cattle graze beneath a limitless sky. The culture, the history, the food and the people is so diverse that we will be passing thru endless different micro countries within one.
Camilo & Ramon are getting ready!!!
From Mayami...
Little known fact: on the Eighth Day, God shook all the eccentrics of America into the nation’s Southeast corner pocket. And They Became South Florida. And It Was Weird.
Here’s how it works: cruise down I-95 from the northeast corridor and at some point, near Richmond, you cross the invisible line separating the North from the South. Now go further, all the way to America’s tip. Somewhere around Orlando, you crossed another line, separating the rest of Florida from reality. Here in Miami, the Everglades and the Keys, things are a little Alice in Sweaty Wonderland. It’s the weather, y’know; all the humidity and hurricanes drive everyone a little crazy. And the alligators. And the mosquitoes, goddamn them. And the people, of course.
Here’s how it works: cruise down I-95 from the northeast corridor and at some point, near Richmond, you cross the invisible line separating the North from the South. Now go further, all the way to America’s tip. Somewhere around Orlando, you crossed another line, separating the rest of Florida from reality. Here in Miami, the Everglades and the Keys, things are a little Alice in Sweaty Wonderland. It’s the weather, y’know; all the humidity and hurricanes drive everyone a little crazy. And the alligators. And the mosquitoes, goddamn them. And the people, of course.
(from http://www.lonelyplanet.com/)
...to San Pacho
Let other cities build grand monuments. San Francisco days are better spent sunning by the bay and digesting lavish seafood dinners – no matter whether you’re a human or a sea lion that’s bellyflopped on Pier 39.
Outlandish behavior comes with the territory here. What with all the earthquakes and eccentrics, this peninsula keeps only a tentative hold on the planet, not to mention the continental US. But as any San Franciscan will tell you, gravity is overrated, anyway. With 43 hills and a population of free thinkers, crafty inventors, and weirdoes passing as normal, this city stubbornly refuses to be brought down to earth. Instead reality is forced to rise to the occasion, with flocks of wild parrots taking to the treetops, ingenious meals by rising star chefs and poets who just keep on riffing until their words take flight. San Francisco’s stratospheric booms and crashing busts aren’t for the weak of heart, but as anyone who’s clung onto the side of a cable car will tell you, this town gives one hell of a ride.
from (http://www.lonelyplanet.com/)
Outlandish behavior comes with the territory here. What with all the earthquakes and eccentrics, this peninsula keeps only a tentative hold on the planet, not to mention the continental US. But as any San Franciscan will tell you, gravity is overrated, anyway. With 43 hills and a population of free thinkers, crafty inventors, and weirdoes passing as normal, this city stubbornly refuses to be brought down to earth. Instead reality is forced to rise to the occasion, with flocks of wild parrots taking to the treetops, ingenious meals by rising star chefs and poets who just keep on riffing until their words take flight. San Francisco’s stratospheric booms and crashing busts aren’t for the weak of heart, but as anyone who’s clung onto the side of a cable car will tell you, this town gives one hell of a ride.
from (http://www.lonelyplanet.com/)
Coast to Coast USA
http://www.roadtripusa.com
Some useful Travel links.
http://www.aaa.com/
AAA
http://www.lincolnhighwayassoc.org/
The Lincoln Highway Association
http://www.national66.com/
The National Route 66 Federation
http://www.nationaltrust.org/
The National Trust for Historic Preservation
http://www.sca-roadside.org/
The Society for Commercial Archeology
http://www.nationalparks.org/
National Parks Organization
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