In Search of the New America

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Only one thing seems certain these days: change.

Joseph Campbell once wrote that something must die in order for a new thing to be born. The old ways of the United States are dying and we are becoming something new...but what?

In an attempt to find out, I am setting out on a voyage across the U.S, but resources are dwindling...the classic American road trip seems to be a ridiculously selfish enterprise-unless it can be done differently. Fueled only by recycled vegetable oil, I will voyage across the country (and back) assisted by strangers who possess something they never dreamed had value: the sludge at the bottom of their deep fryers.

Along the way, I hope to discover the new America and to find...well...hope.

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  In Search of the New America   Seaside, CA on Mar 11, 2009 0 pictures 0 comments
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  StoryCorps in Salinas   Salinas, CA on Mar 16, 2009 1 picture 0 comments
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  Visions of 2012 in Berkeley, CA   Berkeley, CA on Mar 19, 2009 0 pictures 0 comments
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  A little down and then back up again...   Monterey, CA on Mar 20, 2009 7 pictures 0 comments
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  Itinerary   Monterey, CA on Mar 24, 2009 1 picture 0 comments
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  A Flurry of Drums   Monterey, CA on Apr 8, 2009 0 pictures 0 comments
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  Finding the Dream Grease Machine   Burlingame, CA on Apr 17, 2009 8 pictures 0 comments
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  15 Freakishly Fabulous Factoids about Fuel   Monterey, CA on May 2, 2009 1 picture 0 comments
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  15 Freakishly Fabulous Factoids about Fuel #14   Monterey, CA on May 2, 2009 1 picture 0 comments
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  15 Freakishly Fabulous Factoids about Fuel #13   Monterey, CA on May 3, 2009 1 picture 0 comments
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  15 Freakishly Fabulous Factoids about Fuel #12   Monterey, CA on May 4, 2009 1 picture 0 comments
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  15 Freakishly Fabulous Factoids about Fuel #11   Monterey, CA on May 6, 2009 1 picture 0 comments
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  15 Freakishly Fabulous Factoids about Fuel #10   Monterey, CA on May 6, 2009 1 picture 0 comments
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  15 Freakishly Fabulous Factoids about Fuel #9:   Monterey, CA on May 7, 2009 1 picture 0 comments
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  15 Freakishly Fabulous Factoids about Fuel #8   Monterey, CA on May 8, 2009 1 picture 0 comments
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  15 Freakishly Fabulous Factoids about Fuel #7   Monterey, CA on May 9, 2009 1 picture 0 comments
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  15 Freakishly Fabulous Factoids about Fuel #6   Monterey, CA on May 10, 2009 1 picture 0 comments
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  15 Freakishly Fabulous Factoids about Fuel #5   Monterey, CA on May 11, 2009 0 pictures 0 comments
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  15 Freakishly Fabulous Factoids about Fuel #4   Monterey, CA on May 12, 2009 0 pictures 0 comments
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  15 Freakishly Fabulous Factoids about Fuel #3   Monterey, CA on May 13, 2009 1 picture 0 comments
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  15 Freakishly Fabulous Factoids about Fuel #2   Monterey, CA on May 15, 2009 1 picture 0 comments
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  15 Freakishly Fabulous Factoids about Fuel #1   Monterey, CA on May 16, 2009 0 pictures 0 comments
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  Notes on the Drive 5/16   Los Angeles, CA on May 18, 2009 0 pictures 0 comments
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  Something Real in the Land of Illusion   Los Angeles, CA on May 20, 2009 54 pictures 0 comments
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  Update from mile 835   Las Vegas, NV on May 22, 2009 5 pictures 0 comments
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  Inspiration in Zion: Explorations in Utah   Virgin, UT on May 24, 2009 6 pictures 0 comments
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  Kolob Canyon Hike   Virgin, UT on May 26, 2009 8 pictures 0 comments
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  The Sedona Experiment   Sedona, AZ on May 27, 2009 7 pictures 0 comments
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  Impressions Galluping By   Gallup, NM on May 31, 2009 0 pictures 0 comments
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  My Next Gig will be as a Carney   Gallup, NM on Jun 3, 2009 7 pictures 1 comment
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  Human Smallness and Wastelands   Gallup, NM on Jun 3, 2009 6 pictures 0 comments
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  Humanitarian Disaster in Arizona   Tucson, AZ on Jun 17, 2009 13 pictures 0 comments
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  Mogollon Petroglyphs   Tularosa, NM on Jun 17, 2009 9 pictures 0 comments
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  Lonely on Planet Earth   Roswell, NM on Jun 24, 2009 7 pictures 1 comment
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  Louisiana Sunrise   Iowa, LA on Jun 24, 2009 1 picture 0 comments
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  The City that Care Forgot   New Orleans, LA on Jun 29, 2009 0 pictures 0 comments
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  Life in the Big Bath Tub   New Orleans, LA on Jun 29, 2009 4 pictures 0 comments
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  Arts in Orlando   Orlando, FL on Jul 2, 2009 8 pictures 0 comments
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  Enchanted with Savannah   Savannah, GA on Jul 2, 2009 14 pictures 0 comments
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  Les Chausseurs Volontaires de Saint Dominigue   Savannah, GA on Jul 4, 2009 3 pictures 0 comments
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  The Tackiest Town in the United States   South of the Border, SC on Jul 4, 2009 2 pictures 0 comments
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  4th of July in Washington DC   Washington DC, DistrictofColumbia on Jul 8, 2009 0 pictures 0 comments
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  Pressing Strings   Baltimore, MD on Jul 8, 2009 0 pictures 0 comments
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  DC, Obama, and Me   Washington DC, DistrictofColumbia on Jul 13, 2009 0 pictures 0 comments
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  Fell's Point Star Spangled Banner and Such   Baltimore, MD on Jul 13, 2009 0 pictures 0 comments
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  We Came, We Saw, We Concord   Concord, MA on Aug 3, 2009 0 pictures 0 comments
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  Hands to Work, Hearts to God   New Gloucester, ME on Aug 3, 2009 0 pictures 0 comments
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  Wind Turbines Towering Maine Mountainsides   Stratton, ME on Aug 3, 2009 0 pictures 2 comments
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  Ahhh The EcoLife   Dorchester, NH on Aug 3, 2009 0 pictures 0 comments
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  Crossing Breakwater   Provincetown, MA on Aug 3, 2009 0 pictures 0 comments
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  Art and Exodus   Detroit, MI on Aug 7, 2009 0 pictures 0 comments
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  Industrial City to Slump City   Chicago, IL on Aug 7, 2009 0 pictures 0 comments