#102

"It's hard. After On the Road, after Hit the Road Jack, after Life in the Fast Lane, after Let's Get Away From it All, after Born to Run, after Lost in America, Easy Rider, and Route 66..."

"After Jack Kerouac, after Huck Finn, and after The Journals Lewis and Clark... "

"It's hard for an American to just hit the road without some expectations."

"Any road trip is going to feel longer than you think it will. And you'll be tired. And you wont get a meal exactly when you're hungry. You never find a bed exactly when you want to go to sleep. You're probably not going to find out what it is you got on the road to find out in the first place."

"And you know all that. You know all that going into it. And you still (we all still) buy into the cliche about road trips. That what a road trip stands for is hope. Hope that somewhere, anywhere, is better than here. That somewhere, on the road, I will turn into the person that I want to be. I'll turn into the person that I believe I could be. That I am."

"And we hit the road... you and me... with high hopes and no expectations for the future."

Spoken by Ira Glass, This American Life
Podcast #102 Road Trip!