ISBN-13: 9781501188756
A lighthearted, entertaining trip down Memory Lane (Kirkus Reviews), Dont Make Me Pull Over! offers a nostalgic look at the golden age of family road tripsbefore portable DVD players, smartphones, and Google Maps.The birth of Americas first interstate highways in the 1950s hit the gas pedal on the road trip phenomenon and families were soon streamingsans seatbelts!to a range of sometimes stirring, sometimes wacky locations. In the days before cheap air travel, families didnt 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 themfrom 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 didnt believe in bathroom breaks. Now, decades later, Ratay offersan amiable guide...fun and informative (New York Newsday) thatgoes down like a cold lemonade on a hot summers day (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-footland yachts, oasis-like Holiday InnHolidomes,Smokey-spotting Fuzzbusters, twenty-eight glorious flavors of Howard Johnsons ice cream, and the thrill of finding agood buddy on the CB radio. Aninformative, often hilarious family narrative [that] perfectly captures the love-hate relationship many have with road trips (Publishers Weekly), Dont Make Me Pull Over! reveals how the family road trip came to be, how its evolution mirrored the countrys, and why those magical journeys that once brought families togetherfor better and worsehave largely disappeared.
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ISBN-13: 9781501188756
A lighthearted, entertaining trip down Memory Lane (Kirkus Reviews), Dont Make Me Pull Over! offers a nostalgic look at the golden age of family road tripsbefore portable DVD players, smartphones, and Google Maps.The birth of Americas first interstate highways in the 1950s hit the gas pedal on the road trip phenomenon and families were soon streamingsans seatbelts!to a range of sometimes stirring, sometimes wacky locations. In the days before cheap air travel, families didnt 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 themfrom 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 didnt believe in bathroom breaks. Now, decades later, Ratay offersan amiable guide...fun and informative (New York Newsday) thatgoes down like a cold lemonade on a hot summers day (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-footland yachts, oasis-like Holiday InnHolidomes,Smokey-spotting Fuzzbusters, twenty-eight glorious flavors of Howard Johnsons ice cream, and the thrill of finding agood buddy on the CB radio. Aninformative, often hilarious family narrative [that] perfectly captures the love-hate relationship many have with road trips (Publishers Weekly), Dont Make Me Pull Over! reveals how the family road trip came to be, how its evolution mirrored the countrys, and why those magical journeys that once brought families togetherfor better and worsehave largely disappeared.
tags:
Don't Make Me Pull Over!: An Informal History of the Family Road Trip Read Kindle
Kindle Don't Make Me Pull Over!: An Informal History of the Family Road Trip
Don't Make Me Pull Over!: An Informal History of the Family Road Trip Free EPUB
Read Full Don't Make Me Pull Over!: An Informal History of the Family Road Trip
Audiobook Don't Make Me Pull Over!: An Informal History of the Family Road Trip
Free Download Don't Make Me Pull Over!: An Informal History of the Family Road Trip
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