摘要：Long road trips I find very appealing. They give me the opportunity to enjoy amazing landscape vistas and the chance to ponder the great and small questions of life. I also take these opportunities to listen to some pretty engaging books on CD. While David Sedaris was going on about some trip he took a while back to Vancouver, British Co-lumbia, about halfway through Utah I hap-pened to notice a road sign on Interstate 70, “Rest Stop, 1 Mile.” The sign also reported that the rest stop was a “Public/Private Partnership.” I was intrigued by the idea of a public-private partnership for such a thing as a roadside rest stop. How many of these partnerships exist? Why has such a partner-ship occurred? Could not various levels of American government on their own provide the needed coffee machines and condiments to operate these roadside oases?
