When you’re on the road, it can be all too easy to become fixated on the destination to the detriment of the journey. There are some landscapes – some wastelands – where this is perfectly acceptable. Places where you blast through barren fields, the speedometer dipping below 90 (we’re talking miles per hour now) only…
The first time I drove through Spain it was before GPS was a thing. I believe we were still on Mapquest back then. For those of you who are too young to remember, that meant using half a printer cartridge worth of ink to run off a series of maps and directions that would pile…
When I spoke with the rental agent some hours later he sighed and asked if I had insurance. I did! And he told me there would be no problem. He clacked on his keyboard then informed me that there was a problem. The insurance had been purchased through Expedia, not through the rental agency, so…