How we cite our quotes: (Part.Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #4
And then we were alone with our packs in an empty motel parking lot in a dusty, forgotten, queer-looking little town in northern Georgia. (1.5.71)
During their walk, Bryson and Katz get a tour of various small towns across America. To be honest, Bryson's a little biased against the South—his depictions of Southern life often border on the stereotypical. Still, the guy does not like the South, and he makes that belief abundantly clear.
Quote #5
Distance changes utterly when you take the world on foot. A mile becomes a long way [...] fifty miles at the very limits of conception. (1.6.1)
Walking across America is a completely different experience from driving across it. You can still have plenty of great experiences while taking a cross-country road trip, sure, but Bryson is getting to know the land on an incredibly intimate level.
Quote #6
Gatlinburg is a shock to the system from whichever angle you survey it, but never more so than when you descend upon it from [...] isolation in the woods. (1.8.3)
Gatlinburg is a crazy place: a tourist town tacky beyond belief. This is even more pronounced because Bryson and Katz have just been walking along a desolate countryside for weeks. That would be like wearing earplugs for a year and then taking them off to go to Coachella.