Less than a week and we - Mariusz aka Marian and Marek aka Orzech - will be hitting the road in a presumably epic adventure, following the steps and trails of Robert Frank and Melchior Wańkowicz* and many anonymous travellers exploring the vast American continent with their cars.
There is no reason to believe our trip will be more interesting than the ones that happened before, will happen as we go or will take place after ours. In fact, we don't care. We also do not think it will benefit anybody except for us: we will not necessarily make a real effort to produce art as Frank did, nor can we really make any revealing observations as Wańkowicz did for his Polish readers in the 1960s, who didn't know an awful lot about the US.
Our road trip is about friendship, about spending together 50 days 24/7 in a car and sharing a tent or a piece of floor, yet knowing the conversation on the last evening will be as lively and relaxed as on the first day. It is also about experiencing the road: the flow of time, space, landscapes, cities, places, people... It is then something that in principle can not be told, least in a blog. Neither do we share the exhibitionist drive of twittering and posting status updates on facebook constantly. Still, we know there are some people who care about us and will be eager to know how things go. It is for them that we will post once in a while some words or images on where we are and why.
Talk to you soon,
Orzech&Marian
*for those who are not in the know: Melchior Wańkowicz (1892-1974) was a polish writer, most famous for his reporting for the Polish Armed Forces in the West during World War II and writing a book about the battle of Monte Cassino. His Atlantyk-Pacyfik published in 1967 is a collection of essays documenting his road trip from New York to Los Angeles in the 1950s.
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