When we are young
Wandering the face of the Earth
Wondering what our dreams might be worth
Learning that we're only immortal
For a limited time
Chorus to Dreamline by Rush
"US Route 50 is a quiet, two-lane highway which just happens to run through my home town. One of my best friends, Chuck Algeo, and I had planned to drive Route 50 its entire length from Washington DC to Sacramento. There's no better way to spend a couple of care free weeks than motoring around this great country. Unfortunately, Chuck died this January at the age of 25."
Haymaker! issue #1
"If you think of the Interstate as the metaphor for America's impatient race into the future, Route 50 becomes an 'also-ran'; it's the slow road, and the more telling path, it turns out, to understanding the soul of America."
Back Cover of Highway 50: Ain't That America
"Where transcontinental US-50 crosses the midriff of Nevada, it has earned the title of the Loneliest Road in America. Actually it isn't. Some roads that feed into it are lonelier still. But it's lonely enough. Dipping into the immense valleys of the Great Basin, you often see its two lanes shrinking into a pencil-thin line more than a dozen miles ahead -- and there's not another car in site."
Better Homes and Gardens (May 1994)
East the wind blows,
Yet West the man goes.
His journey mirrors his life.
Dawn brightly grows,
'til night finally shows;
Times of pleasure and strife.
"America didn't invent the road as an art form, but each generation of pilgrims has helped perfect it, and every road has a story to tell. This story belongs to Highway 50. It's a cautionary tale, slipping through proud towns that died slowly, and a success story, widened and paved through towns that were born again. It is a history book, surveyed by George Washington, planted by Johnny Appleseed, portaged by Daniel Boone."
Time Magazine (July 7, 1997)