America Day by Day: an introduction

As I entered the US in January, about to embark on the third year of Culturunners US Tour, one American road story in particular came to minda book called America Day by Day by Simone De Beauvoir. In January 1947, Simone de Beauvoir landed at La Guardia airport for the first time and began a four-month journey that took her from one coast of the US to the other, and back again. Her intimate diary presented a post-war America, full of optimism and opportunity, but also of racial-tension and self