Itinerant technicals

Merle rides out:
(Pynchon's Against the Day, p.66)

Just like that, as if some period of youthful folly had expired, it seemed time to move on—

Huckleberry Finn, last sentence:

But I reckon I got to light out for the Territory ahead of the rest, because Aunt Sally she's going to adopt me and sivilize me, and I can't stand it. I been there before.

Lights Out for the Territory, first line:

The notion was to cut a crude V into the sprawl of the city,

"Iain Sinclair walks the streets of London compulsively, and reads the hidden language of the city like no other writer. Lights Out for the Territory transforms our sense of Britain, as Sinclair's strange connections between places and people remake the crazed pattern of urban life, from pitbulls to spooks, from gangsters to Lord Archer. This book is what literature should be about: intensity of language, humane wisdom and controlled anger." Granta

Executive Summary
Lighting Out for the Terascale:

Particle physicists are about to light out for a vast new scientific terra incognita. When they do, later in this decade, they will encounter a territory of discovery that many of them have theorized and dreamed about all their lives. This unexplored country is the Terascale, named for the Teravolts of particle accelerator energy that will open it up for scientific discovery. The next generation of particle accelerators are physicists' tickets to the Terascale and the mysteries that it harbors about the nature of the physical laws that govern the universe. Once they've seen the Terascale, physicists believe, the universe will never look the same.

Including a fantastic link for postcards from the edge of the universe, the frontiers of technology, the bounds of the beyond.