2024, Won't See You No More: Closing the Door on a Year Loaded With Travel Galore

Stop me right now if you’ve heard this before, but, hand to god(s), we had another major, major year here on the blog, shattering records all over the place. I mean, are you ready for these percentages? I don’t know if you are. I think you’re gonna have to convince me. “Uhh, how the heck am I gonna do that?” you ask, staring blankly at your phone/tablet/laptop screen as you read these words. Well, it’s simple, Fred: all you have to do is read the following quotation about the subject that’s brought us all here, that lovely, glorious, worldview-expanding, cranium-opening, beautiful, wondrous, amorphous, multi-adjective-inducing thing — travel!

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Road Tripping Across Arizona, from Hoover Dam to the Grand Canyon & Beyond

I had never been to Arizona — now the 35th state I have checked off my race to all 50 — so you can imagine my excitement as I first laid eyes on the sign that read: “The Grand Canyon State Welcomes You”. My main objective was to visit that gargantuan hole in the earth that has entranced visitors for centuries. So, after finally making a stop at the damn dam and a nearby overlook of Lake Mead, I instructed the Google Maps machine to take me to the South Rim of the Grand Canyon.

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Vegas Vibin’: Three Days of Downright Debauchery in Sin City

It was a joke. Kind of. But as my brother’s 21st got closer and closer, my resolve grew: we were going to do it. Well, we were going to do something, anyway. I told him we didn’t necessarily need to go to San Diego; we could take a trip wherever his little heart desired. Somehow, some way, we landed on Vegas. Yes, Sin City was going to be the one.

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9 of the Best Road Trip Movies From the Last 9 Years

Good road trip films? They're full of Clark Griswolds strapping old dead ladies to the roofs of station wagons; of dimwitted Tommy Callahans trying their darndest to sell break pads across the Midwest; of buddies riding across South America on their motorcycles, discovering injustice in the world.

General TravelLogan T. HansenMarch 21, 2018travel, road trips, We're the Millers, Parks & Rec, Rotten Tomatoes, Due Date, Vacation, Django Unchained, Zombieland, The Fundamentals of Caring, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, Nebraska, Little Miss Sunshine, VW bus, Alan Arkin, Steve Carrell, Greg Kinnear, Abigail Breslin, Jason Sudeikis, Jennifer Aniston, Emma Roberts, Will Poulter, Nick Offerman, Kathryn Hahn, Step Brothers, Zach Galifianakis, Robert Downey Jr., Clark Griswold, Chevy Chase, Vegas Vacation, Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz, Jim Croce, I Got a Name, Paul Rudd, Craig Roberts, The World's Biggest Bovine, The World's Deepest Pit, Woody Harrelson, Jesse Eisenberg, Emma Stone, Bill Murray, James Thurber, Ben Stiller, Himalayas, Iceland, Greenland, Bruce Dern, Will Forte, Time Out, Minneapolis Star Tribune, Redondo Beach, Albuquerque, Tommy Boy, Thelma & Louise, The Motorcycle DiariesComment

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