The book is directly related to American photographic travelogues, such as Robert Frank's The Americans' (1965), but deals with a banal journey on route 66 between Ruscha's home in Los Angeles and his parents' in Oklahoma.
Boken refererar till en amerikanska tradition av resefotografer som Robert Frank men avhandlar en alldaglig tur på route 66 mellan Ruschas hem i LA och hans föräldrahem i Oklahoma.