Beatdom  

"The car had a tremendous impact on our lives. The word peon means pedestrian. The car was an enabler. Enabled us to travel in meatspace, the windshield our TV screen, a constantly changing panorama as we raced out of the past through the present and into the future. Signs in bars said, Free Beer Tomorrow. It’s time travel on the surface of the earth and you can stop and get out whenever you want. True liberation. All the modern accouterments of trains planes and the internet are okay but nothing beats piling the kids and dog and luggage and camping gear in the car and taking off for a few weeks of intense bonding excitement bounding between hellish and exultation and providing stories that last for years to come when family members get together to rehash old times."--Ken Babbs interviewed in Beatdom: Issue One (1985) by David Wills