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Press Release Two-Lane Roads

For immediate release Photos available Contact: Loren Eyrich, editor/publisher, Two-Lane Roads, PO Box 23518, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33307-3518. Message: 1-888-TWO-LANE. (1-888-896-5263) (954) 739-8014
E-mail: twolaneroads@bellsouth.net "Skeeter Davis on the radio, and bugs on my windshield, like I died and went to Heaven!" -Loren Eyrich

Loren Eyrich in his office!

-Bill Reed photo

Fort Lauderdale, Florida, May, 2001
A Job With No Mondays
What man or woman, working in corporate America, hasn't had the dream? The dream, to give it all up, tell the boss good-bye, and hit the road, free as a bird, in a recreational vehicle! Loren Eyrich had that dream in 1987. The daydream evolved into an obsession, and finally became a reality. At age 42, after 19 years with America's largest auto dealer, he walked away from his position as comptroller, turning his back on the walnut desk, health insurance plan, company car, a staff of 40, and a generous salary, for a solitary life on the road in a tiny motorhome, called COW!

"I now have a job with no Mondays!" declares the jubilant traveler. Deadlines and corporate bureaucracy are no longer a part of his life. Today, the 54-year-old bachelor explores America's backroads, searching for offbeat attractions, in the COW (Condo-On-Wheels); a 5th wheel trailer towed by a pickup truck with over 100,000 miles on the clock. Each year, Loren adds about 20,000 more, nearly all on backroads.

"I live in the COW!" Loren jokes. "I'm on the road about six weeks at a time, four trips a year." At the end of each of these trips, Loren spends about six weeks at a home base, printing and mailing his quarterly magazine, Two-Lane Roads. A full-time RVer, Loren lives in the RV year round, on the road about half the year, and the other half at a RV resort park in Fort Lauderdale. The paper is read by a small but loyal audience of readers. "We still have fewer than 10,000 subscribers." Loren winks. "My instant success has taken a few years longer than I anticipated."

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His magazine is not terribly serious. You might even call it corny.
Two-Lane Roads is intentionally silly. "If we printed a totally serious publication, with glossy photos of exotic destinations, then we'd be just like every other travel publication. We're a bit offbeat, and darn proud of it." boasts the editor. "I seek out humorous signs; but I also find travesty in signs which may have been intended to be quite serious. Here are some favorites:"

"Unlawful to track mud on highways." (LA)
"Jody's Used Tires, guaranteed, one mile." (NC)
"May Pop Used Tires." (MS)
"D & H Barbecue, next to hospital." (SC)
"Beer worms." (FL)
"Our bait is guaranteed to catch fish, or die trying." (FL)
"Starve a mosquito, donate blood." (FL)
"Talk is cheap, unless you hire a lawyer." (FL)
"Trinity River, pedestrians prohibited." (TX)
"Street closed to traffic when flooded." (GA)
"Dumping of garbage by non-residents prohibited." (FL)

Shunpiking
Loren's very personal highway log, "Shunpiking" reads like a long letter to a friend. "I'll write stories about every-day people who might otherwise never be pictured in a travel publication. Folks like 'Five Dollar' Frank Thomas of Fayetteville, West Virginia, who fights inflation by offering a scenic flight over the New River Gorge for a five dollar bill. Or Nell and Larry King, who own the only business in the tiny town of Two Egg, Florida."

And outhouse collector Hy Goldenberg of Huntington, Indiana. Goldenberg began his hobby by mistake, when a delivery of one outhouse became a shipment of two. "Two of anything is a collection," explains Hy, "so I had to keep adding to my collection." The day Loren visited, fourteen colorful outhouses lined the driveway of Hy Goldenberg's home.

Smallest, Oldest....
"I really enjoy checking out claims for 'oldest', 'smallest'; or 'Watermelon capital of the world', or 'Fern capital of the world'..... Every little town has some claim to fame. America's smallest working Post Office building (8-foot-4 by 7-foot-3) is located in Ochopee, Florida. America's smallest police station is a phone booth in Carrabelle, Florida, and the World's smallest church is Chapel of the Madonna in Bayou Goula, Louisiana (about 6 by 8 feet with chairs for four parishioners).

Renewed interest
"We baby boomers have been driving the superhighways for what, about 30 years now? Scenery goes by at 75 mph, but we are missing America. I believe there is a renewed interest today, in those two-lane roads we remember from so long ago," says Loren. "Highways like old US 41. Motoring on Route 41 is like turning back the clock 40 years! Most of the highway (which spans 1,990 miles from Miami Beach to Copper Harbor, on Lake Superior in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan) is still two lanes. And, with most of the heavy traffic now diverted to Interstate highways, the old roads can be fun to drive! In Tennessee, where US 41 crosses the Smoky Mountains, barns still remind us to 'See Rock City'."

Two-Lane Roads is printed quarterly, and available by subscription only, for $16 annually ($20 in Canada). Sample issue (latest issue by 1st class mail) $3.95.
News editors, please request a review copy. Two-Lane Roads, PO Box 23518, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33307-3518. Message machine, 1-888-TWO-LANE.

We encourage re-publishing or broadcast of any part of this press release. Please include subscription price and address. We would appreciate that, and so would your readers / listeners. -L. E.

Two-Lane Roads, PO Box 23518, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33307-3518

E-mail: twolaneroads@bellsouth.net

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