How To Drive Cross-Country By Yourself

This is written in response to Molly Templeton’s call for submissions in response to the New York Times‘ How-To issue.

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Everyone should drive cross-country at least once in their life. Driving with a friend or a car full of people, it’s a life-changing experience. But by yourself, it is a moment of reckoning. Those hours and hours and hours behind the wheel with only yourself and your iPod playlist are as transformative as round-the-world travel.

The changing landscape, the weather, the horiz...