03885cam a2200337 4500 355103275 TxAuBib 20180831120000.0 ||||||s2018||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781508261322 1508261326 b85635c6-2b9d-46c3-9898-f114181fac7c OverDrive (Reserve ID) 3829955 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Ratay, Richard. Don't Make Me Pull Over [Bridges Audiobook] : An Informal History of the Family Road Trip. Simon & Schuster Audio, 2018. Format: OverDrive OverDrive MP3 Audiobook, Filesize: 237MB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Listen, Filesize: 237MB. HTML:<b>Part pop history and part whimsical memoir in the spirit of <i>National Lampoon's Vacation</i>—<i>Don't Make Me Pull Over!</i> is a nostalgic look at the golden age of family road trips—a halcyon era that culminated in the latter part of the twentieth century, before portable DVD players, iPods, and Google Maps.</b><br /> In the days before cheap air travel, families didn't so much <i>take</i> vacations as <i>survive</i> them. Between home and destination lay thousands of miles and dozens of annoyances, and with his family Richard Ratay experienced all of them—from being crowded into the backseat with noogie-happy older brothers, to picking out a souvenir only to find that a better one might have been had at the <i>next</i> attraction, to dealing with a dad who didn't believe in bathroom breaks.<br /> <br /> The birth of America's first interstate highways in the 1950s hit the gas pedal on the road trip phenomenon and families were soon streaming—sans seatbelts!—to a range of sometimes stirring, sometimes wacky locations. Frequently, what was remembered the longest wasn't Mount Rushmore, Yellowstone, or Disney World, but such roadside attractions as "The Thing" in Texas Canyon, Arizona, or "The Mystery Spot" in Santa Cruz, California. In this road tourism-crazy era that stretched through the 1970's, national parks attendance swelled to 165 million, and a whopping 2.2 million people visited Gettysburg each year, <i>thirteen</i> times the number of soldiers who fought in the battle.<br /> <br /> Now, decades later, Ratay offers a paean to what was lost, showing how family togetherness was eventually sacrificed to electronic distractions and the urge to "get there <i>now</i>." In hundreds of amusing ways, he reminds us of what once made the Great American Family Road Trip so great, including twenty-foot "land yachts," oasis-like Holiday Inn "Holidomes," "Smokey"-spotting Fuzzbusters, 28 glorious flavors of Howard Johnson's ice cream, and the thrill of finding a "good buddy" on the CB radio.<br /> <br /> A rousing Ratay family ride-along, <i>Don't Make Me Pull Over!</i> reveals how the family road trip came to be, how its evolution mirrored the country's, and why those magical journeys that once brought families together—for better and worse—have largely disappeared. Biography & Autobiography. Nonfiction. Sociology. History. Media Type: Audiobook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2018-08-30 22:00:03. Ross, Jonathan Todd. https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/5054-1/3829955-Don'tMakeMePullOver!.mp3 Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=b85635c6-2b9d-46c3-9898-f114181fac7c&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/5054-1/3829955-Don'tMakeMePullOver!.mp3 Excerpt (OverDrive Listen) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=b85635c6-2b9d-46c3-9898-f114181fac7c&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Listen)