My ex and I decided to drive from Miami to NYC in a car packed full of originals of his work that spanned a few decades, because he was having a retrospective. So, the small car was very loaded down with irreplaceable stuff. Along the way, we needed to see his old client who lived in a small town in Maryland. We…

Childhood road trips with my family were more like polite hostage situations. We only stopped for bathroom breaks and meals, and I remember my dad getting upset that we had to stop more when I hit puberty. As a kid I was and still am, a lover of Americana, and begged my parents to stop at museums and little shops only…

It was my freshman year of college and I was at a party where I met this guy Phil. I think we were both being wallflowers and we ended up chatting and talking about music for a while, then a few days later we made plans to drive to New York from Boston, where our school was, to go see the wu-tang clan the following…

I sincerely hope you’re writing a memoir that includes this story. 

Here is my story; freshman year in college, I pledged a sorority at a MD college. Myself, along with 5 sisters, (I was the only pledge) road tripped to 3 colleges in NC. The purpose of the the trip was for the sisters to participate in the initiation of our sorority at one of the colleges. One of the sisters had a…

Somewhere in the desert, a lone flip flop sits waiting for its mate.

So me and my girlfriend are going to Virginia Beach. I say girlfriend, but she’s actually just a girl that I met at the hospital where we were both involuntarily committed. Long story, but yeah.

Went to Phoenix for a graduation. The ride there was kinda boring. We got stopped by a state trooper for speeding. My friend’s white husband tried arguing with the cop while there are two black people in the car and it’s known that I have weed on me. Arguing over a speeding ticket in the middle of the desert where his…

Protip: Anybody who says “we’re adults” usually has other people handling adult responsibilities for/with them.

Oh I got stranded in Utah!

After a particularly rough break up, a friend of mine decided to accompany me on an 8-hour road trip to a small town three states over to see a very niche local band. This friend and I have traveled before and those experiences were fraught, but I didn’t want to be alone so she came with me.

I have a good semi-recent one. Barely counts as a road trip but here goes.

I was moving my daughter across the country so that she could start her film-making (or adjacent) career in LA. I had nearly packed everything in her car (I was going to fly back), when I carried the last load of pictures and other fragile flat stuff that would be the top layer of stuff in the car. And I took a…

When traveling as a family, things rarely for weird, there were occasional flat tires, rock chipped windshields and headlights, asshole tailgaters....one had my dying of laughter after he stuck his head out the window to scream at at Dad for tapping his brakes on the van we had at the time, while in heavy traffic on…

Me, my BFF, and my fiance driving from Ky to SC for my wedding. In a PT Cruiser. We were supposed to leave at like 1 pm (Putting us in SC around midnight), but because my fiance failed to tell me that he couldn’t pick up his check until after 6 pm, it was at least 7 pm before we got on the road. There was no music bc…

Wasn’t really a road trip but after a fruitless bird hunting trip, we ended up taking the “scenic route” through Slab City despite my warnings that it was NOT A FUCKING TOURIST ATTRACTION (everyone was super nice, nothing went wrong) and ended up in Calexico on a Saturday looking for street tacos. Calexico is a very…

Ah, The Cursed Trip.

Moved 2,000 miles from the east cost for college. I lived in the dorms and didn’t have any friends yet. Some girls asked me if I wanted to go with them on a road trip to Mexico for Day of the Dead. Sounded like something to do for the weekend so I went. These girls....brought weed over the border both ways. And we…

Took a road trip from Philly to St. Louis for my boyfriend’s brother’s wedding. Boyfriend and I had just moved in together, less than a month prior to the trip. The way there was ok, we stayed in shitty motels and marveled at being able to buy alcohol in Walmart (fucking Pennsylvania). On the way home we were in West…

Not me, but some friends of mine got stuck in the snow on Donner Pass on their way to Viva Ska Vegas. They naturally decided that one person who insisted that they would be able to make it over the pass despite not having chains (and where we’re from it never snows so none of them were very practiced at that kind of…