#but I know that going home means facing up to [redacted] and my various deeply sad feelings and struggles and everything so I just……..lol

[tomatoluvr69]

The thing that the movies and books (and even songs probably although none come to mind) leave out when it comes to a big spontaneous road trip is that you will be so so guilty and anxious about putting that many miles in your car. Gas is whatever like I drive a hybrid and I’m clockin like 100mpg sometimes and I have money in the bank for that whatever. But it’s a much vaguer fear knowing that your car is taking unknowable damage that may not bite you until years down the road like I keep being like “ooh I should make a detour for X” and then being like mmmm….200 miles…….perhaps I will chill in this Walmart parking lot and drink water and watch its denizens wander in and out in their various christ themed apparel while my phone charges