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From the bestselling author of __Rats__, a personal and national history of one of America's favorite pastimes: driving across the country. The cross-country trip is the trip that often whizzes past us on our way to quaint back roads and scenic parks; it's an America of long, looping highways, strip malls, fast-food depots, and road rage, but also one that is wide-open, awe-inspiring, and heartwarmingly lonely. Here, Sullivan, who has driven cross-country more than two dozen times, recounts his family's annual summer migration from Oregon to New York. His story of moving his family back and forth from the East Coast to the West Coast (and various other migrations), is replete with all the minor disasters, humor, and wonderful coincidences that characterize life on the road, not to mention life. As he drives, Sullivan ponders his nation-crossing predecessors, such as legendary duo Lewis and Clark, as well the more improbable heroes of America's unending urge to cross itself: Carl Fisher, an Indianapolis bicycle maker who founded the Indy 500, dropped cars off of buildings and imagined the first cross-country road; Emily Post, who, before her life as an etiquette writer, was one of t

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Author

Robert Sullivan

Publisher

New York : Bloomsbury Pub. : Distributed to the trade by Holtzbrinck Publishers

Published

2006

Language

EN

ISBN

9781582345277

Category

travel

Subjects

Fiction, Humor, Travel

Rating

3.27 / 5 (242 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13