Rearview Mirror: Ozarks

Part of what makes any cross-country road trip so enjoyable is watching one landscape slide into the next -- the long stretches of farmland, the collections of fast food restaurants and gas stations off the highways, the Main streets with coffee shops and laundromats, the foothills that grow steeper and steeper until suddenly, you're in the mountains.

I think our fellow traveler, David Gilkey, has captured that amazingly with his photographs of what goes by outside the car window. He's taken so many that we've decided to start sharing them in a series of posts called Rearview Mirror. These are some the sights that we witnessed yesterday driving from Mountain View, Arkansas to Springfield, Missouri:

 

 

David Gilkey/NPR

 

-- Thomas Pierce

10:25 AM ET | 08-28-2008 | permalink

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