Breakfast at the Exit Café: First Take

Thoroughly enjoying Breakfast at the Exit Café: Travels Through America (Vancouver, B.C.: Greystone Books, 2010, 2011), an on-the-road memoir by Wayne Grady and Merilyn Simonds, two Canadians roaming highways and byways in the post-9/11 USA.

Here's how the accompanying website markets it:
'Put two writers in a car for a couple of months and what do you get? Breakfast at the Exit Café, the story of a trip around the rim of America, against the tide of history and literature, on roads travelled by Steinbeck, Kerouac, Trollope, and Simone de Beauvoir."  http://breakfastattheexitcafe.com/

This husband and wife team alternate sections, which livens things up.  Their observations are pointed, often snarky and therefore hilarious -- even (especially?) when they're wrong about certain details. This is a case study in trying  to figure out how things work from the outside: they hit some nail heads right on, miss the mark on others. Either way, makes you think. That's part of the fun.   

Today's Rune: Journey.