Do Not Wait to Fill Up Your Tank

The road is long and the days are short

Untitled (Still Life), Marsden Hartley, 1919

As we prepared to drive across the country this summer, John’s mother, who road tripped from North Carolina to Oregon in the early ‘60s to attend graduate school, offered two pieces of advice:

1) Do not wait until empty to fill up your tank. When you see a station, get gas.

2) Whatever you do, do not drive acros…