| |  | | | | June 19, 2018 | | Road Trip Week, Day 2: The Clothes to Pack, the Gadgets to Bring and the Podcasts to Download
Plus: The World's First THC-Infused Craft Beer | |  | | | | | | | All week long, we're sharing insights and intel about the American road trip, from essential tools to optimize your drive, to poetic ruminations on the most uniquely American tourist destination in the country. We're calling it—wait for it—Road Trip Week.
Editor Thompson Brandes, on his finest road trip memory: "I have road tripped through a thunderstorm—lots of them, actually, having been raised in Florida—and I can definitely tell you it is bad. The storm arrives cool enough: you sit and watch as a thick, dark rain creeps in from the distance and the wind starts to howl. But eventually it all just turns into a slippery, cautious mess of bad traffic and loud noises.
I have road tripped alongside a tornado—once—and I can definitively tell you it is also bad. You drive and you observe, helplessly relegated to the confines of an interstate, as a grimacing death-tunnel rips far into the horizon (but visible enough to keep you paranoid).
I have road tripped through a snowstorm—one glorious afternoon from Syracuse to New York City—and, by contrast, I can definitively tell you it is good. Very good, even..."
A driving camera. Deerskin leather driving gloves. Something called the "handpresso." Here are 10 essentials for your summer road trip.
Brand new bag: the clothes to pack for your next road trip, and the bag to pack them in.
When else are you going to listen to over six hours worth of Harry Potter-related content? Herewith, seven binge-worthy new podcasts for the long drive.
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This THC-infused craft beer was inevitable. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Photos: American Zoetrope (main); Getty Images (top) | | | | |
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