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...Traveling is standard fare for a Harvard summer, but traveling in the United States is something different. “People know the streets of Prague better than they know the streets of their own country,” Andrew told me. Indeed, representatives at STA Travel say the Harvard students they advise rarely want to remain within this country’s borders. Matt and Andrew wanted to try something different. They weren’t trying to be radical; they just figured it?...
Andrew is less romantic. “I remember us at a certain point kind of jokingly being like, ‘Oh, we should travel around a little bit,’” he told me. “And then at one point we were like, ‘We should really do that. Do you want to do that? Okay, let’s do that.’ And then the rest of the year—neither of us had an internship or anything—‘We?...
...Travel is the best education,” said a woman in a New Orleans park exactly five days before Matt and Andrew arrived in Nashville. She had pushed a cart full of electronic equipment next to a huge oak tree. Wires from the cart connected to soil on the ground and then up into three pairs of headphones worn by her assistants, kids about our age. “What are you guys doing?” Matt asked. They were listening for termites, what were we doing...
Though they spent nights in a series of hostels, motels, and friends’ homes, the car served as the pair’s real home this summer. In the front, they kept their travel guides, which they would consult before nearly every major decision, learning brief histories of each city, as well as brief overviews of its lodging, tourism, and restaurant options. In the back, stacks and stacks of maps. One contained all 48 contiguous states. Every time they arrived in a new state, whoever sat in the passenger seat would pull out this map and then check...
...travel really is the best education, information overload may be travel’s most overlooked risk. Six weeks in, here are some of the things Matt and Andrew had already learned: that “rodeo” is often a euphemism for sex; the seductive appeal of fried pickles; that, according to Boston Market, “corn and convenience should not be mutually exclusive”; that, according to experience, nine times out of ten waitresses in bars are not actually interested in sleeping with you; the name of Paul Bunyan’s ox (Babe...