Some beautiful paths can’t be discovered without getting lost.

It’s quiet in the car, in a good way for once. No words, no music. Silence seems right. I roll down the windows and lean my head against the door frame, listening to the wind...

I went on a road trip with my cat, Cap’n. I would have let him drive, but he was drunk.

It’s bad enough I have to be trapped in a car with you children. You’ll do your best not to act like children.

Now, on this road trip, my mind seemed to uncrinkle, to breathe, to present to itself a cure for a disease it had not, until now, known it had.

On day one of the drive, I saw my first dome sky. The world was so flat that I could see the level horizon all around me and the sky looked like a dome. Skies...

You can’t take highways during the apocalypse, because they’ll be packed with panicky people.

For the first time since I met her, I understand her need to keep her name secret and respect that. Here, someplace other than at home, we can be who we want, be with who...

. . . it’s part of the adventure!

Ben, if you get pee in my brand-new car, I am going to cut your balls off.”Still peeing, Ben looks over at me smirking. “You´re gonna need a hell of a big knife, bro.

You just couldn’t give it a rest, could you, Sue? Had to keep badgering me. Snooping and poking around. I hope you’re satisfied, now that you’ve ripped my guts out.

Sometimes the most scenic roads in life are the detours you didn’t mean to take.

The way I figure it, everyone gets a miracle.

I’m a sensual adventurer, Sue. I want to explore the passion I feel, really dig into the heart of it, the dark parts, too. I wanted to take you on that journey with me. But...

But tonight, this is what I can give you. I can offer you the vault of heaven, the firmament of the stars in the sky, and me

In the end, every person’s life is a tough act to follow.

As we plotted Zeke and Sue’s course, we utilized an atlas. But, if you tried to recreate the trip, it would drive you crazy since we changed the names of not only the highways, but...

Who am I?” She whispered. Alex opened his mouth as if to correct her, but then he said, “You are my love.

And I felt, in the silence that followed, everything that had happened on the trip to bring me to this place.

She wondered what life would be like if there was always an arm around her shoulder and if there was a back that welcomed her hug all the time.

We cleave our way through the mountains until the interstate dips into a wide basin brimming with blue sky, broken by dusty roads and rocky saddles strung out along the southern horizon. This is our...

Bib Block was sure that in any part of the country at all, whenever the name of this road was mentioned, people’s hearts pivoted like Moslems to the east and flopped over. Sooner of later,...

Go outside. Don’t tell anyone and don’t bring your phone. Start walking and keep walking until you no longer know the road like the palm of your hand, because we walk the same roads day...

a) he’s late. b) he’s acting like an asshole and blowing me off. c)he’s gotten into a horrible car crash that’s left dead. The most likely answer is A. (We went to prom together, and...

You love him because this is what you do. Over and over again. You knit yourself right up into these men’s lives, these men who will never ever be able to love you back, and...