How Roads Shape Our Lives
The six roads Ted Conover traveled for his The Routes of Man were not the first treacherous ones he came to know. Working on his book Coyotes, Conover attempted a trip from Phoenix to Los Angeles with migrant workers in a beat-up station wagon. An hour along, the station wagon broke down, and the driver disappeared with the money Conover and his fellow travelers had paid for the trip. They finally hopped a Southwest flight for a quarter of what they’d paid their driver, got to Los Angeles, and took …
