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Interactive Map with 12 Famous Road Trips in the U.S. Literature Could Come in Handy

Going on a road trip is different than reading about it, but reading a great story and then following the same steps and locations envisioned in the book in real life, that is petrolhead delight. And when it comes to American literature, it’s safe to say there are plenty of such novels that have inspired generations. What if we told you somebody mapped 12 of these famous routes?
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It’s summer which means it’s the time of the year when you plan road trips. In fact, I stand corrected, most of the year you put together week-trips you promise yourself to go for once the hot season kicks in. When you finally get to that moment, that two-week vacation you can eventually go as far as you like, it often happens that you end up having no destination. Here’s where this interactive map comes in.

Richard Kreitner and Steven Melendez were commissioned with mapping twelve famous road trips for the publication Atlas Obscura, and we have to say it comes in handy. For us, for you guys, and mainly for any person out there that heard of Jack Kerouac’s “On the Road” or F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Cruise of the Rolling Junk."

Here’s how they describe their hard work:

“It includes every place-name reference in 12 books about cross-country travel, from Mark Twain’s Roughing It (1872) to Cheryl Strayed’s Wild (2012), and maps the authors’ routes on top of one another. You can track an individual writer’s descriptions of the landscape as they traveled across it, or you can zoom in to see how different authors have written about the same place at different times. Most interestingly of all, for me at least, you can ruminate about what those differences say about American travel, American writing, American history.”

As the road trippers that we are, and the Globetrotters that we wish we’ll one day become, we can’t but tip our hats to these people and, of course, share their brainchild with you.
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