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![]() ![]() And with the advent of personal electronic devices of course they’re just so omnipresent in all of our lives. With the coming of airline deregulation in 1978 under the Carter administration, in the 1980s everybody started flying everywhere. ![]() Kai Ryssdal: This is really about how America used to travel? Because we just travel differently now right? The following is an edited transcript of their conversation. Writer Richard Ratay has a new book out on the history of family road trips called, “ Don’t Make Me Pull Over.” He talked with Marketplace host Kai Ryssdal about how road trips have changed the country and how road trips themselves have changed. AAA says of those 46.9 million, 39.7 million Americans are planning a road trip. That’s the most in the 18 years that they’ve been tracking it. An estimated 46.9 million Americans will travel 50 miles or more this year to celebrate the Fourth of July, according to the travel organization AAA. ![]()
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