Modern Living: Travel '76 Rediscovering America

Everybody travels in the States. The railways and the hotels have between them so churned up the people that an untravelled man or woman is a rare animal.

−Anthony Trollope, North America (1861)

We 're having trouble finding a bathroom here in Santa Fe.

−Tourist Mark Mulligan (1976)

Not much has changed in the U.S. during the 115 years that have intervened between the voyages of England's Trollope and Spokane's Mulligan. Americans are still insatiable travelers; it is still hard to find a bathroom in Santa Fe−or just about anywhere else...

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