But who wants to ride always over oiled roads, always to hotels with marble lobbies, or big white porches full of hungry-eyed young women, and old ladies, knitting?
Only the standardized tourist.

And I am not addressing him.
I am talking to the motorist who is not ossified in habit, who has a love of strangeness and the picturesque--not only in scenery but in houses and people and the kind of life those people lead.

For it is quite true that, as Professor Roland C.Usher said in his "Pan Americanism," "the information in New York about Buenos Aires is more extended, accurate, and contemporaneous than the notions in Maine about Alabama....

Isolation is more a matter of time than of space, and common interests are due to the ease of transportation and communication more often than geographical location.".