Next Exit 5000 Miles

NEXT EXIT 5000 MILES exhaustively tracks one route west from coast to coast. And provides an answer to that age old question, "What route across the country reveals its true essence?” A route that connects the best roads in the country: the mountains-as-oceans vistas of Shenandoah’s Skyline Drive, the synapse overload of Broadway, the played-out red peaks of the Million Dollar Highway, the trumped-up red dirt of the Burr Trail, the endless neon of the Las Vegas Strip, and the endless non-neon of California Highway One. It’s all here, along with the bad food, the juke joints, the music, the traps, the trails, the hubcap shops, the renditions of Kate Smith singing God Bless America in a cave, the adult book stores, the convenience marts, the pioneer trails, the horseback rides, the junk foods, the battlefields, the old department store manikins, the class V+ rapids, the cheesesteak sandwiches wit whiz, the inattentive cave explorers, and the large holes in the ground.