Rough Roads, Wild Roads and Road Fever

I have a lot of books on roads, road trips and road adventures. Trying to organize them into categories can be difficult. There are cross country road trips, meandering road trips, and road races. Then there are the purposes for which people travel roads---pilgrims set out to make a new life. When I finished law school, the greatest freedom I could think of was to get in my car and drive across country. Car + 26 year old, and lots of roads meant freedom. That trip was part pilgrimage. I retraced a 1919 trip my maternal grandfather made at the same age. I tried unsuccessfully to publish a book out of the adventure. This group is picked for some of the most adventurous road trips with a little history thrown in. 1. The Wild Roads: The Story of Transcontinental Motoring , T.R. Nicholson (1969). Stories of motoring firsts in the early age of the automobile. Nicholson's expertise in early automobile adventures hit the sw...