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Travel dilemmas: Are you the Satan of back-seat drivers? Read this before you ruin the holidays

When the holidays begin, my reptilian brain takes over. It keeps me breathing, but as McGill University describes it, "The reptilian brain ... tends to be somewhat rigid and compulsive."

That's attractive. Or not, especially when it comes to car travel this time of year. For Thanksgiving alone, 55 million people are expected to take road trip.

I'm turning to a couple of sources for attitude adjustment. The first is from a new book by Scott and Alison Stratten called

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