Write a story about someone who started a road trip ten years ago and hasn't stopped since.

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“AURA OF THE ROADS. ” by Kavitha Sharm

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My heart beat raced when the yellow colour radiant two wheeler overshadowed my car, I couldn’t even perceive the man travelling in the bike, I drove my car fast to compete with that stranger I met on this road today, it has been ten years since I started my road trip, every time I meet different personalities in this traverse. When I started this road trip I was twenty three years old, car is always my choice, I can sit inside and watch the anonymous road precariously. I never decide my destination while I travel. This anonymous road in Kera...

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“Endless Road” by Tabitha Johnson

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Today marks the day that, 10 years ago, I started my road trip. It started off a simple task for my job; to watch someone as they were in Witness Protection and they were on someone's Kill List. I thought I'd watch them for a couple of weeks and then go back to my normal life on the other side of the world, but then I ended up staying much longer than I expected. And everyone thinks I'm still on my road trip I used as cover. And as I'm realizing this, I'm also realizing that, if I'm going to tell you this story, you're going to need some bac...

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“A Trip Cut Short” by Lee Brown

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Most road trips are meant to be enjoyed — let me tell you, after 10 years, considering everything that has happened, that isn’t always the case. What began as a simple trek across the rural Midwest of the United States to visit family, resulted in narrowly avoiding the devastation that ravaged nearly all populated cities and towns. It was sudden and unexpected, and no one — myself included — was truly prepared for it.I remember that afternoon vividly, it was the middle of August and I had pulled off to a gas station to refill my car and grab...

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“A Man and His Van” by Nick Homberg

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Blinded by an unprecedented light that tore through my eyes. The weak, dry desert ground crunched beneath me. I turned away from the sun and raised my hand up to defend against the hanging inferno that looked like a weird mustard stain on a cyan blanket. I coughed and dry heaved. It felt like a monster was trying to rip its way out of my skull. “Oh boy,” I whispered; the sarcasm dripped from my words, “Gotta love hangovers.” I slowly sat up and peered around. Something was different, something was... off. What was it? For the life of me I co...

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“The 'Road Trip' that Changed Her Life” by Shelli Salinas

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The day was a warm fall day in the month of October just ten years ago. She had reached her lowest low. Her life wasn’t going the way she had envisioned it to go. But, she knew that her choices had landed her there. She had been traveling in the wrong direction for way too long. She made stops where she knew she shouldn’t have stopped. She paid for services that were not in her best interest. She befriended people who were not good for her. She made choices that put her life in danger. She could see the light at the end of the tunnel, but i...

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“Memories of the Past ” by Liz Young

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Glancing back into her rear-view mirror, she saw Arizona slipping away after only three days. She had anticipated that her time in Arizona would have been longer - the long deserted stretches of highway, the fast sprints in and out of the car during rest stop breaks because of the sweltering heat, the roach infested roadside motels she had pinched her pennies and begged her way into. But maybe it was because of these things that she had powered through the unsettling desert. Unlike the other cities she had slipped through during her 10 ...

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“Betsy” by A.P. Rule

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We’ve got about 350 miles to Buffalo when Syd finally wakes up. Even though she’s been with me close to a year and a half, it still gives me a start sometimes when I feel her moving in the RV. It’s comforting most of the time, though. ********** I was 21 when I bought my first RV. Her name was Betsy and she was my ticket out of Waterford. After Ma died, there just wasn’t anything left in Detroit for me. Good ol’ dad blew most of the insurance money...

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Write a story about someone who started a road trip ten years ago and hasn't stopped since.

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✍️ 22 stories

“AURA OF THE ROADS. ” by Kavitha Sharm

“Endless Road” by Tabitha Johnson

“A Trip Cut Short” by Lee Brown

“A Man and His Van” by Nick Homberg

“The 'Road Trip' that Changed Her Life” by Shelli Salinas

“Memories of the Past ” by Liz Young

“Betsy” by A.P. Rule

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