NPR Road Trips Collection

This audio collection includes previously aired NPR Road Trip segments which have been grouped into five categories -- Family Vacations, Roadside Attractions, Postcards from Around the Globe, National Park Adventures, and Fairs and Festivals. The listener gets a variety of experiences without ever l......more

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This was great and it informs my own writing having grown up just a mile or so from the Indiana state fairgrounds. Everything in this is interesting and is a great reminder of the traditions of showmanship of fairs. circuses, carnivals and coliseum performances people my age and generations before u......more

I really wanted to love this collection of NPR stories for a recent roadtrip with my husband, but it fell short. A couple of the stories we ended up skipping just to save our sanity while driving. The stories were short and we learned a few interesting things, but overall it would not be a repeat no......more

I love all the production that goes into an NPR recording, bcuz it was a radio program. So much more than just listening to someone read a book, there’s music & natural background noises, including animals. This really did make me feel like I’d travelled around! I think I’ll look to see what other N......more