Road Trip Tips From “The Cruise”

Onion columnist Jim Anchower is planning a road trip, and he’s got some tips for his fellow travelers. Among them: Get a road-trip buddy. “If you can sucker someone into buying all the gas since it’s your damn car, that’s the best way to go,” he writes in today’s issue. But by no means is The Cruise a by-the-book traveler. “There are other things you can do if you’re a puss, like you can get a tune-up or get a bunch of maps from your grandma, but part of the adventure is leaving some of it to chance,” he writes. “If you take too many precautions, how will you learn to think on your feet? How will you ever know what it’s like to push a car a mile uphill to a service station if you never experience it? All right, it sucks. But you should live it at least once to know how bad it is.”

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