The Goll Woods of western Ohio was spared from fire and chain saws by being deep in the Black Swamp. Not Wyoming, but New Jersey. The route through Nebraska, which follows the old Oregon Trail. A portion of I-80 through the Appalachian Mountains in Pennsylvania literally carves through the mountain. In the Bonneville Salt Flats of Utah, where the skyline is broken by a huge bulbous sculpture, built by a Swede who felt the landscape needed some relief.
Price even finds redemption in visions of industrial blight.
To the untrained eye, a hellhole. Knowledge of the details changes the complexion of the whole trip. Price once considered leaving university life and opening a travel business that would cater to eco-tourists and hobby historians. The I-80 series represents a compromise, something that still ignites his passion for travel. People who blow by his Chevy van in a flash of metal may never understand.