What's Your Favorite Road Tripping Activity?

Properly driving cross country involves stopping at unusual roadside attractions and sampling every regional delicacy you find. And once the landscape gets monotonous, calling into the local pop radio station to say you'd like to fill in as their guest DJ. Props to Brad Wells on Louisiana's Star 101.9 for indulging me.

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Cool music, and that's how you should do a road trip.

Driving across Canada, I love to listen to CBC and hear all the different local shows. Except in Quebec where I like to listen to rock stations. Quebec has the best rock.