05/29/2026
Happy Friday β and happy unofficial start of summer! π
Quick fun fact:
You know the great American road trip? Windows down, no real plan, "we'll figure out lunch when we get hungry"?
That whole thing barely existed before the 1950s. When the country started building the Interstate Highway System in 1956 β 41,000 miles of road β one of the ways they actually sold it to the public was vacations. The idea that a regular family could just point the car somewhere and go.
And go we did. Station wagons. Roadside motels. Burma-Shave signs you'd read one line at a time. "Are we there yet" from the back seat about nine hundred times.
If you grew up in the '60s or '70s, the family road trip wasn't a vacation. It was summer.
And here's the thing nobody tells you: you're allowed to still do it. The car still works. The road's still there. Only now, you don't need a reason β and nobody's asking "are we there yet." π
So this summer? Point the car somewhere. Go.
Happy Friday. π’