at worst the world will sing along

insomniac-arrest:

I never realized how globally iconic the american road trip was until I lived abroad and people asked me about it

like I remember saying once ‘I’ll miss the ocean here :(’ (I live in the middle of the US) and my South African friend was like “??? won’t you just road trip to go see it? Don’t you road trip everywhere?’ and I was like, ‘I mean, yes, yeh. I can’t deny that.’ and they’d nod their head like ‘that’s exactly as it should be you funky little american, that’s how it is’

like, it never occurred to me other people didn’t frequently jump in their car and traverse the great straight and endless roads of your huge-ass corn-and-cow country for hours on end for fun

much less people around the world were like strongly associating us with it, like ‘americans and their cars and their hijinks and their coming-of-age driving tales, yes’

(via avez-vous-le-fesse)