Itineraries

Is anyone making any interesting tracks over Spring Break -- heading to the mountains, seeking to gain an upgrade in the thermometer's mercury reading, visiting family, etc.? As for myself, I'm taking my mid-semester, increasingly weary, and possibly half-sick self to Palm Springs (via one of those cheap flights to Las Vegas and then a desert drive) for (hopefully) some restorative high-desert air. Such an excursion suggests its own soundtrack, right? I'm thinking I probably need to bring (not that we'll be driving around in a convertible, but still!) U2's "The Joshua Tree" (desert sky, dream beneath a desert sky, the rivers run but soon run dry, we need new dreams tonight), Frank Sinatra's "Sinatra at the Sands" (I've always loved Dean Martin's line: "It's Frank's world; we just live in it") ... and, well, that's as far as I am so far (maybe I need Robert Plant's song "29 Palms," since we'll undoubtedly pass through that dusty town, and which I have to admit is a song I've always found to be irresistible). All to say, or all to ask (besides my earlier question about your travel plans), what would be on your Top 5 list of all-time best driving cds? For some reason, I tend to think of David Gray's "White Ladder" in this category, even though I haven't listened to it in a good while ...