Travels with Stephanie

摘要

Assuming I can ever afford to retire, I have two travel fantasies. Both rely on infrastructure, and both will be possible, assuming adequate planning on my part, thanks to you. 1. Hit the road with my dog, a la John Steinbeck in Travels with Charley. This country is so beautiful, and there's so much to see. Congress will still be wasting billions of dollars' worth of work time arguing over how to fund surface transportation, but roads and bridges will be serviceable. You will have figured out, like you always have, how to keep them in working order. You'll have done that by persuading local taxpayers, like you always have, that in lieu of help from Washington, they will need to pay for local improvements themselves. They wont be happy about it, but they'll vote to raise their property, sales, fuel, and/or other taxes for the privilege of getting where they're going faster.