Choose Your Own Adventure: Bus Trips to Spark Your Wanderlust

Amanda July 14, 2014

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By Amanda Festa
The idea of the road trip is magic. It is a different kind of travel, about the journey far more than it is about the destination. The road becomes the trip itself -- winding and meandering like a choose-your-own-adventure novel. Where you go is up to you, as is how you get there.
When you think of the road trip in literature, you may think immediately of Jack Kerouac’s iconic On the Road or John Steinbeck’s classic Travels with Charley. And for good reason. Traveling the country is a right of passage, giving you the opportunity to explore the world through your own unique lens...

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