The Longform Guide to Road Trips
Our favorite stories about hitting the road.
The Ballad of the Piggyback Bandit
How Sherwin Shayegan pulled off a 3,000-mile, piggyback ride-fueled journey.
Bryan Curtis Grantland Jul 2012 20min
Atomic John
On the road with John Coster-Mullen, a truck driver who reverse engineered the atomic bomb.
David Samuels New Yorker Dec 2008 40min
It's a Fun, Fun, Fun, Fun Country
A wandering summer road trip.
Annie Proulx Outside May 2004 30min
Tom Freston, Runaway Mogul
A Liberian road trip with the creator of MTV, Ralph Reed, and a reformed cannibal named General Butt Naked.
Joe Hagan Men's Journal Feb 2013 25min
Taking the Great American Roadtrip
The Great Railway Bazaar author drives across the country.
Paul Theroux Smithsonian Sep 2009
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
“We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold.”
Hunter S. Thompson Rolling Stone Nov 1971 1h35min
Retracing Hank Williams' Ghostly Night Ride
On his last night, Williams lay dying in the back of a blue Cadillac, with 17-year-old Charles Carr at the wheel.
Peter Cooper The Tennessean Jan 2003 15min
Mr. Mike's America
A cross-country drive with the first head writer of Saturday Night Live.
Paul Slansky Playboy Mar 1983
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