Some thoughts on an All-American cross-country road trip. Our family recently took a multi-day cross-country – well, 2/3 of the country, at least – road trip as part of our relocation from New Jersey to Colorado Springs. We packed the baby, t…  | Mike Coté April 25 | Some thoughts on an All-American cross-country road trip.
Our family recently took a multi-day cross-country – well, 2/3 of the country, at least – road trip as part of our relocation from New Jersey to Colorado Springs. We packed the baby, the dog, and as much of our stuff as possible into our Hyundai Palisade and took off from the East Coast for the long drive to our new abode in the Mountain West. That drive, ironically enough, was exactly 1,776 miles, a fact that got me thinking about the history, people, and incredible beauty of this amazing country as we started the three-day sojourn across eight states: New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, and Colorado. Over the course of the approximately 28-hour drive – with plenty of stops for baby breaks and dog defecations, naturally – I pondered those ideas and saw them reflected in the places we passed through. I also took away one key lesson that will remain with me for the rest of my life: the pejorative coastal elite label 'Flyover Country' is an absurd misnomer. | | | |
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