Memphis, Tennessee

National Civil Rights Museum, Lorraine Motel, Memphis, Tennessee

Bill Clinton Presidential Library, Little Rock, Arkansas

Oklahoma City National Memorial, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

On the Open Texas Road

The King Kong Jesus Cross (from Sunday Money) and the Leaning Tower of Water

The Cadillac Graveyard, Amarillo,Texas

From Route 66: The Mother Road, by Michael Wallis:

Just outisde the city limits, not far from vast feed lots covered with mounds of rich manure, stands a bizarre Pop Art monument to the Mother Road. In a wheat field near where old Route 66 once crossed the land and within plain sight of I-40 are the carcasses of ten Cadillacs, nose down in the turf, their tail fins gleaming in the sun. This is the legendary Cadillac Ranch, created by Ant Farm, a counter-culture art collective, under the direction of Stanley Marsh 3, an eccentric Texas millionaire and art collector who owns the property...

Over the years, the ten Caddys have been blasted by the elements, and spray-painteed and gouged by the thousands of visitors who stop along the road and make the short pilgrimage across the field to Marsh's monument to the American Dream.

Return to the Painted Desert, August 2006

Two years ago I visited the Painted Desert in Arizona. This summer, on my way from San Diego to Boston, I drove through it again. Think about how much you have changed in the last two years. Then think about this place. Two years means absolutely nothing to a place where 1,000 years is barely a blink of an eye. It gives a totally different perspective on existence and your life when you can change so much, and then go to this place and realize absolutely nothing at all has changed.