Along The Road

Wherever you go, there you are

One hundred and sixty miles. That is, roughly, the distance between Seattle, Washington and Portland, Oregon. Thirty miles is roughly the distance between San Francisco and San Jose, in California. One hundred and twenty miles is roughly the distance between Los Angeles and San Diego. What will the difference be, fifty years from now, between these distances, other than their measurements?

Like poles of a magnet, collecting metal shavings and dust, urban centers draw development into alignment between them, most densly along the major travel corridor, fanning out in curves, ever less dense, the farther they are from the main line. Get used to it, or get away from it. But remember, no matter how far you get away, you take your personal magnetism with you.