Roadtrip music Gail and I were ready for at least 9 hours of road monotony after a brief stop at the audio books section in the Biola library. C.S. Lewis' The Great Divorce (2.5 hours), Willa Cather's My Antonia (9 hours) and Charles Dickens' Tale of Two Cities (13 hours) all made the final cut. (Fall 2008 chapel makeups, 20 hours, didn't make the cut, though they probably should have.)
But an audio book is a tricky little devil. Problem #1: They're on MP3 formatted CDs, which don't play in normal CD players. Problem #2: They're on CDs, not tapes, which makes it impossible to play on Michelle's antiquated tape deck. Problem #3: Michelle has an iPod adapter, which means we could load them on an iPod and listen via the adapter, but unfortunately, there never was and probably never will be an iPod to go with it.
Unable to listen to our library on the way up, we settled for the trusty fallback known as FM stereo. In order of appearance on the presets: KIIS FM, Latino 96.7, KOGO country 105.1 and the FISH.
Once we got to the FISH, Michelle pulled over to the side of the road and threw herself in a ditch.
By the time we reached the outskirts of LA, we were already out of radio range and then forced to re-hunt for passable tunes amid a sea of Central Valley mariachi signals. Nevertheless, we encountered some good theme music in "I'm a country boy (I got a 4-wheel drive)" and "Country Fried (Cold beer on a Friday night)" and Taylor Swift's "Love Story" (Michelle's facorite). Those would be our anthems for the rest of the trip. 
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