Whether you’re going for a weekend, a week, or a month, here are six tips to help you plan your road trip. ‘The road trip’ is a general phrase that describes a long journey made in a vehicle, for recreation. A good road trip means a whole lot more than just getting there and back, so you should approach your trip as an adventure, but also a responsibility. The authoritative record of NPR’s programming is the audio record.Knowing how to drive a car opens up endless possibilities, such as being able to enjoy one of the most memorable vacation experiences, the road trip. This text may not be in its final form and may be updated or revised in the future. NPR transcripts are created on a rush deadline by an NPR contractor. Visit our website terms of use and permissions pages at for further information. Looking for adventure.Ĭopyright © 2023 NPR. STEPPENWOLF: (Singing) Get your motor running. SHAPIRO: Convenient - I'll be in Rhode Island. SUMMERS: So if you're still looking for weekend plans, like I am, the newest routes suggest Massachusetts or Minnesota. So who knows? Maybe, when I retire, things will have warmed to the point where maybe there's not a 70-degree route anymore. He hasn't done it himself, either.īRETTSCHNEIDER: Perhaps someday - it's a road trip that is best suited to someone who is retired, and I'm still quite a ways away from retirement. SHAPIRO: So far, Brettschneider hasn't heard of anyone actually attempting one of his road trips. But as it warms up, maybe it's just too warm to find a route that's 70 degrees through Canada in the summertime. ![]() Right now, we're able to put a route through Canada in the summertime. And what's going to happen is these lines - you know, if you think of these as lines on a map, they'll shift over time. The weather itself hasn't drastically changed in eight years, but it is something he's thinking about.īRETTSCHNEIDER: The world is warming. SUMMERS: The major differences are that the journey now starts in California instead of South Texas. SHAPIRO: And these maps really resonated with people - so much so that fans asked him to update the maps when new climate data came out. So you're in Washington, D.C., by the end of April and then head back west and end the year in San Diego. With these maps, you would start your road trip on January 1 in South Texas and chase the perfect weather northeast. SUMMERS: One for the lower 48, which ran 9,000 miles long, and another that was a 13,000-mile version, which included parts of Canada and Alaska. was always 70 degrees at any given time during the year.īRETTSCHNEIDER: I threw some lines on a map and connected them to the highways and put it out there. He was analyzing how temperature changed throughout the year when he noticed something interesting.īRETTSCHNEIDER: Pretty much, somewhere in the U.S. SHAPIRO: The first maps came out in 2015, when Brettschneider was a faculty researcher at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks. ![]() So this is a way to kind of reinvigorate a road trip in a way that people really haven't ever really thought about before. People have gotten in a car or a camper or a train, and they've watched the world pass by. I think most people have done road trips in their life. ![]() Well, climate scientist Brian Brettschneider in Anchorage, Alaska, has mapped out a way - in fact, several ways - that follow 70-degree weather year-round.īRIAN BRETTSCHNEIDER: As a climate scientist, I'm always looking for ways to connect people with climate data. Imagine a yearlong, cross-country road trip with perfect weather - seem impossible?
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