The poet Walt Whitman famously wrote that “I take to the open road,/ Healthy, free, the world before me.” Somehow, it’s hard to imagine taking to the road more lightheartedly than in a rainbow-colored school bus.
How have you found freedom on the open road?
I have found that getting out of town, even for just a day or two, frees me in ways that a stay-cation can’t do. The change of scenery, doing different activities from my routine frees my mind from the things that occupy it on an ordinary, day by day basis. After I return, I often find myself inspired by creative ideas for my writing that probably wouldn’t have occurred had I not gone away.