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The Logistics of the Long Road Trip: How Black Gen X Learned to Move Different
Before GPS, Cash App, cell phones, and streaming music, taking a long road trip required planning, memory, discipline, and a little bit of nerve. In this episode, Tony Reeves reflects on what it meant to drive from Tampa to Pine Bluff in the early 1990s, when every gas stop, radio dead zone, highway turn, and dollar had to be accounted for.This is not just a story about travel. It is a reminder of how Black Gen X learned resilience, independence, and problem-solving in real time—long before technology made the road feel safer and easier. From $0.99 gas to sunflower seeds, Cherry Coke, back…
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