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Off The Beaten Path: your travel sound track must...
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  • your travel sound track must include a song by Steppenwolf called : 'BORN TO BE WILD' (lyrics follow)
    Get your motors runnin' Head out on the highway Lookin' for adventure and whatever comes our way
    Yeah, darlin' gonna make it happen
    Take the world in a love embrace
    Fire all of the guns at once and
    Explode into space

    I like smoke and lightnin'
    Heavy metal thunder
    Racin' with the wind
    And the feelin' that I'm under

    Yeah, darlin' gonna make it happen
    Take the world in a love embrace
    Fire all of the guns at once and
    Explode into space

    Like a true nature's child
    We were born, born to be wild
    We can climb so high
    I never wanna die

    Born to Be Wild
    Born to Be Wild
    ... http://www.transian.com/EasyRider/born.html ...

    ......................................................Trip America like they did in the original counterculture movie, 'EASY RIDER'
    As we see these two men beginning their odyssey across America to the tune of 'Born To Be Wild. Easy Rider is one of a handful of American films of the 1960s and '70s that used the social context of the period to express discontent towards the status quo, thus initiating a trend in contemporary American filmmaking. In fact, the questions that the film poses are as compelling to us as they were to the 'boomer' generation.: Have Americans really found freedom, or are they just living an illusion?

    Easy Rider is the story of Captain America (Peter Fonda) and Billy (Dennis Hopper), who after making the deal of their lives (selling drugs, naturally), decide to travel from somewhere in the west to New Orleans, the promised land of the Mardi Gras. The two are promptly arrested when they join the procession in a public parade. In the local jail, they meet a young lawyer with a big hangover, played by Jack Nicholson, who for no particular reason decides to go with them. As they continue their trip, they meet people who either turn against them for being hippies, or love them for the same reason.

    The film constantly tells you that there is an invisible yet sharp line dividing American society. As the trip progresses, we begin another level of acquaintance with the travelling trio: They somehow lose some of their individuality, which allows us to see them more as iconic images of the 60s. When they talk to each other, we see that none of them truly believes in the country they live in; for example, the lawyer tells Captain America and Billy that people don't hate them because they are hippies, but because they represent the freedom the rest of the country is craving.

    Visual techniques common to underground films of the late 60s make Easy Rider a very enjoyable, even hallucinatory, visual experience. For instance, the blend between documentary and Andy Warhol styles provides us with a continually changing cinematic landscape. The film, and its psychedelic soundtrack (with songs by Steppenwolf and the Byrds),and the possibility of creating your own 'Easy Rider' travel fantasy should not be missed. ------So my fellow Virtual Tourists time to 'Get your motors runnin' Head out on the highway
    Lookin' for adventure
    And whatever comes our way....'

    http://home.earthlink.net/~sirkus/easy.html
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    Comments for Richmond about North America
    gilabrand Mon Feb 20, 2006 10:53 UTC
     Good observation about places to eat.
    scottishvisitor Fri Dec 10, 2004 16:43 UTC
     Interesting pages
    nighthawk Sat Jan 11, 2003 22:55 UTC
     this is a not so typical page! well done and great pics!
    Pat&ZoAnn Wed Jan 1, 2003 03:22 UTC
     Route 66 has got to be one of the great travel experiences. Hope to do it someday.
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