There's nothing like a road trip to provide good stories for life. It's often more about the journey than the destination. This week, we've been collecting your best road trip stories.
Here's what we heard
Betty from Nevis wrote, "My grandparents, mom and sister hit the road to Washington state from South Dakota when I was about 10. Little did anyone know that I was prone to motion sickness. Consequently, my grandpa had to stop periodically for me to open the door to vomit! We were driving thru a town and went past an open manhole cover. Guess what? I stuck my head out the window to lose my lunch...right in the open manhole cover. I've always wondered if there was actually a man in that manhole. Poor guy! This was about 60 years ago.
"In that same trip, we stopped along the highway in nowhere land, along a railroad track. My grandma had to go! As she was 'going,' squatting in front of the car, we heard a man hollering and running down the railroad track. A real hobo wanting to hitch a ride. I never saw Gram move so fast."
Lenore from Bemidji described how she and a friend took many road trips in college. She said, "We'd meet at 8 o'clock Saturday morning and head out (no destination planned). The day trip would commence by approaching a major highway, stopping and flipping a coin and deciding which direction we would go next based on a predetermined direction (north, south, east or west) that we would assign the heads or tails to be. We would continue our road trip in this way until our determined ending time of 4 p.m. where we would stop for the evening! Never knew where we would end up. Saw lots of great country!"
Bonnie from Pine River described a 10th anniversary trip that she and her husband Terry took in Alaska. "We drove around 5,000 miles hitting points of interest including rhubarb cinnamon rolls & the last jar of fireweed jelly in Talkeetna along with Mile High pizza pie. Somewhere along the line, we found fireweed ice cream, & halibut just for the heck of it. We thought a hotel room would be a chance to shower and sleep in in Ketchikan. Wrong. Shower, yes. Sleep in, no, as we were awakened by a chorus of numerous de Havilland Beaver float planes taking off at dawn for tours."
Listen to a conversation from Wednesday's KAXE Morning Show between hosts Andrew Dziengel and Jen Kellen above. You'll hear about Jen's trip to Yellowstone in 1988 when the whole place was on fire, as well as Andrew's encounter with a cactus!
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Do you have a great road trip story? Let us know!
