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What is the best road trip you’ve ever taken and what made it special? BABETTE: Tulsa. Mid-1990s. I was a girl who had a
JENN: Honestly my road tripping days lie in my future
lot to learn. I drove straight into the bowels of hell with a man with no name and a gun he called Rooster. We lived on corn nuts, water we siphoned out of the radiators of 18-wheelers, and Mickey’s Big Mouths, a tattered bride and a groom past his prime. One of us made it back alive.
RV around America plans, but the best road trip to date would have to be a totally unplanned trip with my lifelong buddy Josh to a little town in California called Twain Harte. I think what made it special was that it was just totally unplanned, throw your stuff in the car and go! We had the best time lounging on the lake, cliff jumping, playing mini golf and just being young and dumb! I’ll never forget the great memories or his crazy driving!
FRANCES: It’s hard to choose between my two crosscountry road trips—one with my husband in 2001, and one with my mom in 2002. I remember listening to coyotes gambol and howl at the north rim of the Grand Canyon in 2001. I remember waking up in The Badlands with the morning light on the hillsides in 2002. I felt that I came away understanding so much more about this giant, messy, daunting, beautiful country of ours.
MELISSA: My favorite and most memorable road trip was when we took the family RV to California, more precisely....DISNEYLAND. We sat driving for hours, sharing the most memorable stories while singing our lives away to Dr. Hook. I can still feel the bumps in the road as I laid on the top bunk above the drivers seat staring at the road ahead. I was about 5 years old and that memory is one that has lasted a lifetime.
MARIAH: My favorite road trip was went I went camping near the Sol Duc hot springs with a group of friends two summers ago. Even though the car ride was long, there was all kinds of beautiful scenery to take in along the way. I’m also a big fan of taking the ferry so any trip that includes that is a plus!
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DEAN: A few years ago, my fiancé, two friends, and I went to the Sasquatch! Music Festival. As we drove through Burlington, one friend said we needed to go back to Bellingham because she had her mom’s house keys. So we head back and sort that out. Once we’re back into Burlington, traffic hit because the Skagit River Bridge collapsed. We later learned that the bridge collapsed at about the same time as when we were set to cross it. Traffic eventually eased up and we made it to Sasquatch! for an amazing weekend of music.
LISA: When I was in my late teens we took a road trip as a family to a Montana dude ranch. My parents were gracious enough to let me bring my two best friends and we had a blast! From teasing my little brothers (we still laugh about it today) to experiencing Yellowstone Park in all its beauty, it was the trip of a lifetime with amazing memories, both good and bad.
KAITY: My favorite road trip is the one that brought me to Bellingham. We drove our U-Haul through Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, South Dakota, Montana, Idaho, and finally, Washington. After a long journey, there’s nothing like the excitement of arriving in a new place to call home.