{"id":1088,"date":"2011-07-12T14:34:52","date_gmt":"2011-07-12T18:34:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timandrewsblog-asicentral.com\/timblog\/?p=1088"},"modified":"2011-07-12T14:34:52","modified_gmt":"2011-07-12T18:34:52","slug":"get-your-motor-runnin%e2%80%99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timandrewsblog-asicentral.com\/timblog\/2011\/07\/12\/get-your-motor-runnin%e2%80%99\/","title":{"rendered":"Get Your Motor Runnin\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps the greatest road trip book ever written is Jack Kerouac\u2019s 1957 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Road-Jack-Kerouac\/dp\/0140042598\" target=\"_blank\">On the Road<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.asicentral.com\/asp\/open\/Research\/BestPlacesToWork\/road-tour.aspx\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"right\" src=\"http:\/\/timandrewsblog-asicentral.com\/timblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/road.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>Followed in no particular order by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Travels-Charley-Search-America-Steinbeck\/dp\/0140053204\" target=\"_blank\">Travels with Charley<\/a> by John Steinbeck and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Blue-Highways-Journey-into-America\/dp\/0316353299\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1310485340&amp;sr=1-1\" target=\"_blank\">Blue Highways<\/a> by William Least-Heat Moon.<\/p>\n<p>And whether you\u2019d vote for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0103074\/\" target=\"_blank\">Thelma and Louise<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0064276\/\" target=\"_blank\">Easy Rider<\/a> or even <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0032138\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Wizard of Oz<\/a>\u00a0as <a href=\"http:\/\/glamour-news.blogspot.com\/2009\/06\/20-greatest-road-trip-movies-of-all.html\">greatest road trip movie<\/a> of all time, I think you\u2019d agree all these books and movies share a common love of the open road and a thirst for adventure. Those same themes will be thoroughly explored over the next week or so during <em>Counselor<\/em>\u2019s 3,000 mile <a href=\"http:\/\/www.asicentral.com\/asp\/open\/Research\/BestPlacesToWork\/road-tour.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">2011 Summer Road Tour<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Three <em>Counselor<\/em> editors are trucking cross-country on a mission to visit as many companies on the magazine\u2019s upcoming Best Places to Work List as possible. You can follow every pit stop and diner drop by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.asicentral.com\/asp\/open\/Research\/BestPlacesToWork\/road-tour.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">clicking here<\/a> for tweets, blog posts, videos, photos and stories from the road.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.asicentral.com\/asp\/open\/Research\/BestPlacesToWork\/road-tour.aspx\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"right\" src=\"http:\/\/timandrewsblog-asicentral.com\/timblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/mel.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You can also follow Andy Cohen, Melinda Ligos and Joe Haley (the Tin Man, Lion and Scarecrow?) via a live map tracking their stops at more than a dozen industry companies across the country. Their mission is to discover why they\u2019re great places to work, find out what makes a winning corporate culture and take part in whatever summer craziness comes their way.<\/p>\n<p>The road crew left this morning in a rented SUV packed with cold drinks, trip T-shirts and road tunes loaded on the iPod. Today\u2019s stops: Maryland, Virginia and North Carolina.<\/p>\n<p>Let me know what you think of the trip as it unfolds \u2013 and what your all-time favorite road trip book or movie is \u2013 by posting a comment or e-mailing me <a href=\"mailto:tim.andrews@asicentral.com\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. I\u2019m also on <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/Tim_Andrews_ASI\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/timothymandrews\" target=\"_blank\">LinkedIn<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/timasitv\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps the greatest road trip book ever written is Jack Kerouac\u2019s 1957 On the Road. Followed in no particular order by Travels with Charley by John Steinbeck and Blue Highways by William Least-Heat Moon. And whether you\u2019d vote for Thelma and Louise, Easy Rider or even The Wizard of Oz\u00a0as greatest road trip movie of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,1,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asicentral","category-community","category-news-about-asi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timandrewsblog-asicentral.com\/timblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timandrewsblog-asicentral.com\/timblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timandrewsblog-asicentral.com\/timblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timandrewsblog-asicentral.com\/timblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timandrewsblog-asicentral.com\/timblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1088"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/timandrewsblog-asicentral.com\/timblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1094,"href":"https:\/\/timandrewsblog-asicentral.com\/timblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1088\/revisions\/1094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timandrewsblog-asicentral.com\/timblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timandrewsblog-asicentral.com\/timblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timandrewsblog-asicentral.com\/timblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}