Road trips seem to be uniquely American and Suzanne Lang talks with two authors about their unique takes on traveling the country. Miles to Go, an African Family in Search of America Along Route 66 is Brennen Matthews’ travelogue of his family’s emersion into America on its “Mother Road."

 

 

 

 

 

 

Brad Herzog goes a different direction with Detour 2020, a Cross-country Drive through America’s Wrong Turns, trying to get a bead on just what that year brought to us.

 

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