[BWF] Don't Make Me Pull Over!: An Informal History of the Family Road Trip by Richard Ratay 3+++

[Karin]

I saw the title in 2019 and instantly added it to my want to read shelf; this year it fit a challenge so I finally got around to it. I liked it in spite of some parts that weren't very interesting to me personally (that was some of the history.) Unlike some of those who didn't, I liked the family stories the best because it helped me care more about the other things.

I listened to a significant part of this and also read it. My dad must have said "don't make me pull over" because it sounds so familiar. I was born and raised in Canada, but we also did road trips and all of them in station wagons, so I could relate to some of this; thankfully my dad insisted on seatbelts from before we were born and didn't try to make time the way Ratay's dad did. However, this isn't about our road trips, but about the book. As for the audiobook--they made the family stories better but dragged out some of the history for me.

If you've ever gone on a road trip with your family this is a book for you; triply so if you did it during the 1970s when the family accounts, hotels, etc take place, but the history starts earlier than that.