One of my all time great trips (1968) was to drive Route 66 from Chicago to LA in a temperamental Brookwood (?) estate with a mad dutchman, a future Hollywood director (our actor), and an essentially pukka English producer called Howard and his wife. It was my first time in the States and we were making a cheapo movie for BUNAC - the British Universities North America Club.

You can't be me, I'm taken

I always liked this road song by Haggard although Roger Miller's King of the Road had its appeal when I was hitching.

I can swear there ain't no heaven but I pray there ain't no hell. _ Blood Sweat & Tears