Uprooted, an eco/travel blog

Megabus and other budget transportation companies are not just cheap: they’re comfortable and eco-friendly, too.

(1) …Our narrator arrives.
I’ve always wanted to visit Arkansas. Maybe it’s just the name. Maybe it’s the backcountry, down-home Americana imagery associated with that part of the world. Probably it has a lot to do with the Ozarks, that oddly-named bed of mountains promising lush greenery, clapboard shacks, crawdads and moonshine. Whatever the reason, once [...]

It’s beautiful in Austin: Texas hill country, with low rolling treebanks as far as the eye can see. The Colorado River rambles through the middle of town, and scores of springs bring forth cool water even in the hottest months. You can hear great music wherever you go, and there’s art on every corner. But [...]

As you leave the Bay Area on the 101N, the colors change. Grey, blue, and pink are replaced by brown, green, and orange. Trees spring up and grow straighter; oak limbs drip with foam-green lichen. Rusted-out school buses and abandoned RVs pop up in front yards; hillsides cave and slide. It’s wetter up here, darker… [...]