Emily Post says..

I just found this in my current summer reading, "Cross Country; Fifteen Years and Ninety Thousand Miles on the Roads and Interstates of America with Lewis and Clark, A Lot of Bad Motels, A Moving Van, Emily Post, Jack Kerouac, My Wife, My Mother-in-Law, Two Kids, and Enough Coffee to Kill and Elephant." I highly recommend this book if you've at all enjoyed my writings so far (author Robert Sullivan is a kindred soul in that we're both incredibly introspective and aware of the nuances of life. Or so I'd like to think). Anyway:

"It is your troubles on the road, your bad meals in queer places, your unexpected stops at people's houses; in short your misadventures that afterwards become your most treasured memories."
Emily Post (who, believe it or not, was a road tripper)

So true!