A humorous chronicle of a months-long road trip spent visiting America's national parks while examining our obsession with the open road, the crowds of people expressing their freedom by going on the same vacation as everyone else, and what duties we have to the (stolen) land we call home.

There are only so many Mary Oliver poems you can read about being free, only so many times you can listen to Joni Mitchell's travel album, Hejira, before something inside you snaps. Which is what happened to Blythe Roberson, who decided then and there to quit her day job, and then, as you legally must after quitting your job, she went on a Great American Road Trip. This was a trip Blythe had been pondering for years, and as she planned, she thought about the canonical American travel narratives that made a road trip seem like the epitome of freedom. She wondered why there were so few canonical American travel narratives written by women, and what that meant for her, a woman who wanted to go on the road. So, she decided that she wanted to write a female American travel narrative.

A laugh-out-loud-while-occasionally-raging-inside travelogue, filled with meditations and many, many jokes on ecotourism, conservation, freedom, traffic, climate change, and the structural and financial inequalities that limit so many Americans' movement. Ultimately, Roberson ponders the question: Is quitting society and going on the road about enlightenment and liberty-or is it just selfish escapism?

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