Times Travel: Still Frugal After All These Years
New York Times travel columnist Matt Gross is living the dream. He works for a publication that can afford to send him all over the world. While he feigns "roughing it" as The Frugal Traveler title implies, he has $100 a day to work with, which would be plenty to keep us comfortable.
Seven weeks ago, he departed for a road trip across the United States. Apparently, he's working hard for the $100 a day. Matt's unearthed some virtually unknown cultural landmarks in unassuming Middle America.
Highlights of his trip include Bardstown, Kentucky or the "the ancient heart of bourbon country;" architecture finds in Columbus, Indiana, a counter-culture community in southwest Wisconsin, and Viatnamese dining in Oklahoma City. Between stops, driving the long, slow hills and flat stretches of land between destinations consumes the rest of his writing.
We wrote similar diary entries driving to visit our grandparents in Boca as kids, but those didn't ever make the Times' travel section.
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