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Don't Make Me Pull Over!

An Informal History of the Family Road Trip

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Don't Make Me Pull Over!

By: Richard Ratay
Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
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“A lighthearted, entertaining trip down Memory Lane” (Kirkus Reviews), Don’t Make Me Pull Over! offers a nostalgic look at the golden age of family road trips—before portable DVD players, smartphones, and Google Maps.

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. In the days before cheap air travel, families didn’t so much take vacations as survive 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 next attraction, to dealing with a dad who didn’t believe in bathroom breaks.

Now, decades later, Ratay offers “an amiable guide…fun and informative” (New York Newsday) that “goes down like a cold lemonade on a hot summer’s day” (The Wall Street Journal). 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, twenty-eight glorious flavors of Howard Johnson’s ice cream, and the thrill of finding a “good buddy” on the CB radio.

An “informative, often hilarious family narrative [that] perfectly captures the love-hate relationship many have with road trips” (Publishers Weekly), Don’t Make Me Pull Over! 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. Biographies & Memoirs Popular Culture Social Sciences Funny Solider
Nostalgic Memories • Fascinating History • Informative Content • Relatable Anecdotes • Diverse Subjects

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Great book full of nostalgia and stuff I totally forgot about! Great quick listen - super narration and just lots of fun to listen to. Just enough history and info mixed in without it being too boring! If you like this book next listen to Sting Ray Afternoon also.

Took a ride back t o my youth!

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This book brought back memories that made me laugh. it answered some questions like "whatever happened to Howard Johnsons motels".

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The author gives a lot of education on roads and cars as well as a history of ppl and how roads came about. He includes stories of his own and takes you along with home as he intricately describes his family road trips. It was long, but fascinating. I loved it like I love a good road trip.

Funny, Educational, Loooooong like a road trip

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A bit like a long road trip. By the end I was just asking how long till we're finished. An informative history of road travel in America. But that history is pretty dry. And there's not a many jokes as I was hoping for. Performance is good.

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I really enjoyed the telling of him packing up the kids in the middle of night, whisk them away only for them to wake up in morn . Has a very good start . Some places were even humorous..Overall, enjoyed.

Memorarble.But didn't hold attention.

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