Don't Make Me Pull Over!: An Informal History of the Family

Don't Make Me Pull Over!: An Informal History of the Family Road Trip

â€œA lighthearted, entertaining trip down Memory Laneâ€ (Kirkus Reviews), Donâ€™t Make Me Pull Over! offers a nostalgic look at the golden age of family road tripsâ€”before portable DVD players, smartphones, and Google Maps.

The birth of Americaâ€™s first interstate highways in the 1950s hit the gas pedal on the road trip phenomenon and families were soon streamingâ€”sans seatbelts!â€”to a range of sometimes stirring, sometimes wacky locations. In the days before cheap air travel, families didnâ€™t so much take vacations as survive them. Between home and destination lay thousands of miles and dozens of annoyances, and with his family Richard Ratay experienced all of themâ€”from being crowded into the backseat with noogie-happy older brothers, to picking out a souvenir only to find that a better one might have been had at the next attraction, to dealing with a dad who didnâ€™t believe in bathroom breaks.

Now, decades later, Ratay offers â€œan amiable guideâ€¦fun and informativeâ€ (New York Newsday) that â€œgoes down like a cold lemonade on a hot summerâ€™s dayâ€ (The Wall Street Journal). In hundreds of amusing ways, he reminds us of what once made the Great American Family Road Trip so great, including twenty-foot â€œland yachts,â€ oasis-like Holiday Inn â€œHolidomes,â€ â€œSmokeyâ€-spotting Fuzzbusters, twenty-eight glorious flavors of Howard Johnsonâ€™s ice cream, and the thrill of finding a â€œgood buddyâ€ on the CB radio.

An â€œinformative, often hilarious family narrative [that] perfectly captures the love-hate relationship many have with road tripsâ€ (Publishers Weekly), Donâ€™t Make Me Pull Over! reveals how the family road trip came to be, how its evolution mirrored the countryâ€™s, and why those magical journeys that once brought families togetherâ€”for better and worseâ€”have largely disappeared.
Country USA
Brand SCRIBNER
Manufacturer Scribner
Binding Paperback
ReleaseDate 2019-05-14
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781501188756

Country	USA
Brand	SCRIBNER
Manufacturer	Scribner
Binding	Paperback
ReleaseDate	2019-05-14
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781501188756

Don't Make Me Pull Over!: An Informal History of the Family Road Trip

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