I’d like to kick off this week’s edition of Tales From the Road with a quote from the stellar travel journalist Robert Kaplan, from a speech originally published in the Columbia Journalism Review:
“Journalism desperately needs a return to terrain, to the kind of firsthand, solitary discovery of local knowledge best associated with old-fashioned travel writing.
Who??d have ever thought that a family beach resort on the Gulf Coast of Alabama would become an incredible concert venue?
Well, you??re right, Britney and Mariah and Justin don??t perform here ?? not yet, anyway. But Steppenwolf, ZZ Top, Widespread Panic, The Black Crows and Hank Williams, Jr, did in Summer 2007 at the 10,000 seat Ampitheater at The Wharf in OrangeBeach. Breaking Benjamin and Three Days Grace - with opener Seether - will kick off the 2008 concert season on Sunday March 2nd.