1 August Road Trip
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Driving into My Darkness
(CW) It took me six years to graduate college with a bachelor’s degree in psychology that was so hard-won that…
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Nearly Weeping Outside
“…And I should love you the more because I mangled you And because you were no longer beautiful To anyone…
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The Road Trip-and the Question-That Changed My Life
I was in my final year of university and semester break started. It had been a rather arduous stretch in…
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Riders on the Storm: on the Thruway During a Tornado
It was supposed to be a romantic adventure during the Thanksgiving holiday, our first weekend away as a new couple.…
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Cross-Country Seeking: Road Trips Can Test a Friendship—and Bring Family Closer
— My dad and I shared road trips—some forty years apart. This is what happened. In the summer of 1976,…
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Go Slow Over the Rough Parts
The world’s first recorded road trip took place in Germany in the summer of 1888 when Bertha Benz, the wife…
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Shredded Tires and Gas Station Gourmet
The open road uncoils before us like a black vein stretching towards eternity, carrying us to the sublime destinations we…
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Go West, Young Woman: Getting Away
The summer of 1996 seems far removed from the world I know today – the Internet in its infancy, Seinfeld…
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