Stu, as you will attest, "Phasers on Stun" can make me drive WAY to fast. (note the date on the video ...1976)

Truth be told, the thing i find wonderful about a road trip is that, for us, it affords a different luxury of time ....time to listen to things you might not otherwise listen to ...sometimes looking for a diversion from a repetitive landscape, sometimes looking for comforts of the recognizable, sometimes at peace with the solitude of your thoughts. I love the time you have in car to listen to music and reflect upon it differently, ...whether it be an epically long tracks that you don't usually spin, or, the silence song of the landscape.

I must also admit to the love of the radio in the car. I love the temporal quality of moving through the reaches of radio station. It's signal grows and fades through a rolling landscape ...christian rock in Nebraska (or anywhere else you are likely to hear it in the US) (ok, i can only take a moment or two of it) or NPR in Vermont or alt college in Alaska.

I love listening to the voices of CBC; tuning in to an interesting program and fretting as all seems lost in static as the miles pass, only to scramble and find it half way up the dial again. I love listening to the Canadian broadcaster when we are coming home from a long trip, driving through the expansive mid west and catching it drifting across the border ...or having packed away a wet tent in the morning because it's be raining for far too many nights and i just want to be home ...I love the fact that i can pick it up in the states, try as they might, the boarder patrols and rein it in!

For me, there was something very surreal about our drive up to northern BC, the Yukon and Alaska. It was very far from home and yet somehow in retrospect i very much felt at home. I think radio does that (at least fm radio as apposed to satellite). By it's very nature it is somehow localizing and uniting at the same time. You become more a part of a place that you are in by listening to the same radio, the same new and whether that the locals are listening to.

I find we often throw on our music when we get bored with the radio (or each other), rather than the other way around.