![]() "Just grab a friend and take a ride, together upon the open road." "Sometimes all you need is a great friend and a tank of gas." "According to the map, we've only gone four inches." Because stories are more important than things." Then we'll turn it into our own story that will live inside our history to carry with us, always. We'll stop in every small town and learn the history and stories, feel the ground and capture the spirit. "Road trips are the equivalent of human wings. People don't have your past to hold against you. When you're traveling, you are what you are right there and then. "What you've done becomes the judge of what you're going to do – especially in other people's minds. "I wonder why it is that when I plan a route too carefully, it goes to pieces, whereas if I blunder along in blissful ignorance aimed in a fancied direction I get through with no trouble." The journey changes you it should change you." Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. The great affair is to move to feel the needs and hitches of our life more nearly to come down off this feather-bed of civilization, and find the globe granite underfoot and strewn with cutting flints." "For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. – John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America We find after years of struggle that we do not take a trip a trip takes us." ![]() And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. "A journey is a person in itself no two are alike. "I love just going out long drives, the ocean, my kids, new music, new gear, new plug-ins, coffee, and donuts at four in the morning. "Afoot and light-hearted I take to the open road, Healthy, free, the world before me, The long brown path before me leading wherever I choose." ![]() "Road trips required a couple of things: a well-balanced diet of caffeine, salt and sugar and an excellent selection of tunes-oh, and directions." "Now, on this road trip, my mind seemed to uncrinkle, to breathe, to present to itself a cure for a disease it had not, until now, known it had." "I climb behind the steering wheel… I drive off immediately without once looking back it's a long journey but it leads to freedom." "A passenger on a road journey is in the hands of a driver a reader embarking on a book is in the hands of a narrator." "You steer down lightless highways, and you invent a destination because movement is key." "They drove, the city slowly dissolving around them and breaking up into fields and trees." "If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough." "Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic." "Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car." An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered." ![]() "An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. "The freedom of the open road is seductive, serendipitous and absolutely liberating." "Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go." "If we were meant to stay in one place, we'd have roots instead of feet." "When you go on a road trip, the trip itself becomes part of the story." – Jack Kerouac, On the Road: the Original Scroll "All he needed was a wheel in his hand and four on the road." "The only impossible journey is the one you never begin." "And just like that, we're on our way to everywhere." "Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow." The wise man travels to discover himself".
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