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APPRECIATING THE STATES through the eyes of a British Family

In the summers of 2018 and 2019, I flew with my family from the United Kingdom with the mission of taking to the roads of North America. We had been to the States previously; the typical destinations of Vegas, Cali and Florida. But for our first road trip, we took an RV from Las Vegas to New York, straight across the flyover states. The next year, we returned to loop between New York and South Carolina.

My family doesn’t necessarily love the super-busy tourist attractions. On our cross-country adventures, we visited the national parks, of course, and they were unsurprisingly stunning. But a huge part of our two trips was spent traversing the long, empty

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