Are you for Main St., or Wall St?

That's the hackneyed political buzzphrase that got me interested in what Main St. really is (or at least what it looks like).

Having nothing better to do, and no real direction, I've decided to find out. For myself.

So, mainlines.US is built to be the record of my travels, a personal journal with Main St, USA loosely at its center, and a sort of scrapbook of conversations, incidents and meetings from The Road.

Ojai, CA – 06.02.2010

I asked the hippy, as he arrived at the hot springs, what time it was.

I don’t know brother, haven’t looked at my watch in days.”

He pointed his thumb up toward the sun, closed his right eye…

“About 11.”

Call me cynical, no one’s that hippy.

It was 10:40.