Why You Should Road Trip

I'd like to say that the urge hits me the minute that school lets out for the summer, but the truth is that it starts coming on much earlier than that. Possibly January. 
You know what urge I mean: the urge to ROAD TRIP. 
Some of you need no convincing. You get it.  You already understand the sudden compulsion to throw a change of clothes, a toothbrush, and a stick of deodorant into a backpack, sling it into the back seat, put the top down, and head out for parts unknow...