Category
3 articles
For generations, American families packed the station wagon for the same destination every summer — a week or two at a modest lake cabin or beach cottage. Today, that predictable family getaway has vanished, replaced by either expensive vacation productions or no time off at all.
In 1965, filling your tank cost pocket change — but driving coast to coast was still an expensive, exhausting, and genuinely risky undertaking. The real story of the American road trip isn't about cheap gas. It's about everything else that could go wrong.
Before budget airlines and direct routes, crossing the Atlantic was an expensive, exhausting ordeal reserved for the wealthy. Discover how dramatically air travel has changed — and why your $400 flight to Rome would have seemed like science fiction sixty years ago.