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Reasons Why You Should Take a Road Trip

Janet Ruth Heller is quoted in the interview article “Seven Best Reasons Why You Should Take a Road Trip,” posted on October 12, 2018 at https://www.autoaccessoriesgarage.com/why-take-a-road-trip  by Jim Milan.

Here are my comments from the article.

I enjoy road trips because they give a traveler more flexibility.  My husband and I can choose when to leave, when to eat, where to go, etc.  We can also lengthen or shorten a trip if we wish without having to worry about airline penalties for changing a ticket, etc.

Having a car enables us to see out-of-the-way highlights, such as picturesque small towns, roadside memorials and monuments, minor battlefields, gardens, homes of famous people, etc.

I have food allergies and having a car available enables me to bring a cooler with items that I can eat.  Also, the car enables me to easily shop for food during the trip.

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Janet Ruth Heller

I am the past president of the Michigan College English Association. I have a Ph.D. in English Language and Literature from the University of Chicago. I have published four poetry books: Nature's Olympics (Wipf and Stock, 2021), Exodus (WordTech Communications, 2014), Folk Concert: Changing Times (Anaphora Literary Press, 2012) and Traffic Stop (Finishing Line Press, 2011). My scholarly book, Coleridge, Lamb, Hazlitt, and the Reader of Drama, was published in 1990 by the University of Missouri Press. My fiction picture book about bullying for children, How the Moon Regained Her Shape (Arbordale, 2006; 7th edn. 2022), has won four national awards. My play The Cell Phone won fourth place in a national contest and was performed twice at the Fenton Village Players One-Act Play Festival on June 24-25, 2011 in Fenton, Michigan. Triton College produced another play, Pledging, as part of its Tritonysia Play Festival in May 2017. Choeofpleirn Press published Pledging in Rushing Through the Dark (2022).