So I’m on the road again, driving up and down New England. After driving up and down the west coast in October, I can easily shrug off 3 hours of driving.
This time I’m going between Bates College (Lewiston, ME), Boston, New Haven (CT), and Westport (CT). Tonight I get to go back to Boston.
I hate my rental car, this piece of junk Dodge Caliber. However, I was surprised to find Sirius satellite radio in the car. Cool. At some point I settled on the right wing radio. That lasted a couple of days, before I couldn’t stand it anymore. A cool component was one of the guys taking calls from conservatives and challenging them to make sense. Then I flipped to the left, which only lasted a couple of hours, after which I had to go back to the right.
The entire thing was like a circus — very obnoxious, very loud, often lacking in stuff that made sense or lacking in things that I though would be good for a honest discourse. There was always the comedy channel, which I’m always fond of.
But after flipping around for a bit longer, I heard the voice of Terry Gross, host of NPR’s “Fresh Air”. And what a breath of fresh air to listen to NPR again (I didn’t find it on the first pass). I practically live with NPR when I drive around in California, so I feel like I’ve been reunited.
