Don’t Make Me Pull Over!: An Informal History of the Family Road Trip Audiobook (Free)

“A lighthearted, entertaining trip down Memory space Street” (Kirkus Testimonials), Don’t Produce Me Draw Over! offers a nostalgic go through the golden age group of family street trips—before portable DVD players, smartphones, and Google Maps.

The delivery of America’s first interstate highways in the 1950s hit the gas pedal on the road trip trend and family members were soon loading—sans seatbelts!—to a range of sometimes stirring, sometimes wacky locations. In the days before cheap flights, families didn’t so much about Don’t Make Me Draw Over!: An Informal Background of the Family members Road Trip consider holidays as survive them. Between house and destination place thousands of mls and a large number of annoyances, and along with his family members Richard Ratay experienced all of them—from getting crowded in to the backseat with noogie-happy older brothers, to picking out a souvenir and then find that a better one may have been had at the next attraction, to coping with a dad who didn’t have confidence in bathroom breaks.

Now, decades later on, Ratay presents “an amiable instruction…fun and informative” (New York Newsday) that “will go down such as a cool lemonade on a hot summer months’s time” (The Wall Road Journal). In hundreds of amusing ways, he reminds us of what once produced the fantastic American Family Road Trip so great, including twenty-foot “property yachts,” oasis-like Vacation Inn “Holidomes,” “Smokey”-spotting Fuzzbusters, twenty-eight glorious flavors of Howard Johnson’s glaciers cream, as well as the excitement of selecting a “good buddy” around the CB radio.

An “informative, frequently hilarious family members narrative [that] perfectly captures the love-hate relationship many have with street trips” (Web publishers Regular), Don’t Make Me Pull Over! reveals the way the family road trip came to be, how its progression mirrored the nation’s, and just why those magical journeys that once brought families together—for better and even worse—have largely vanished.