Op-Ed: Here's what I wish I'd known before road-tripping across America (via latimesopinion)
By the time we crossed into California in February 2000, the romance of the road had worn thin. Our tires, too. My college buddy Matt and I had traveled 30,000 miles over six months in a two-seat Honda Civic hatchback. Such boundless horizons! Such a tiny car. And we still had two months to go.
We said we wanted “to experience and to document American culture at the turn of the century.” We self-appointed chroniclers — he a guitar-wielding troubadour, I a freelance scribe — drove throughout the contiguous 48 states on a budget of $200 per week. While Matt performed songs from the 1950s to the ’90s in bars and coffee shops, I updated our website with stories and photos, thanks to the wizardry of a dial-up modem and pay phones.
Those bubble days — for the tech industry, for Matt and me, for America — swelled with possibility and expectation. Our journals convey this youthful disposition: full of energy, more self-certainty than warranted, earnestness with a touch of naivete. By the end of the trip, after hundreds of wrong turns, we had gained some experience and a little wisdom.
My research into the road trip genre has unearthed deep roots in western expansion and settler colonialism. In the 19th century, the federal government and land companies cleared trails along Indigenous pathways, grabbing and selling lands at the same time. These early travel routes contributed to the dispossession of Indigenous people and formed the core of railroad networks.
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