“Venture another Highway,” Jefferson County, 2011

“Venture another Highway,” Jefferson County, 2011

One of my childhood friends grew up thinking the song by the band America directed you to “Venture a Highway in the sunshine, Where the days are longer, The nights are stronger than moonshine, You’re gonna go I know.” The Florida girl didn’t know about California’s Ventura Highway, the name of the song. Whenever I’m on an old back road like this that makes me wish I was chewing on a piece of grass, I can’t help but sing it the way Georgina initially heard it. “’Cause the free wind is blowin’ through your hair, And the days surround your daylight there, Seasons crying no despair, Alligator lizards in the air, in the air…Did di di di dit…”

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