
Our mask-wearing road trip across a battered America
CNN
Sandy Tolan writes about his family road trip -- what they noticed and reflected on during this time of political division and Covid-19 -- from California to Florida with his wife to pick up their 11-year-old son.
And so on January 18 we embarked on the strangest of American road trips, crossing eight states and back, 6,000 miles in 18 days: a surreal and spectacular journey, sure to reveal truths about our battered nation, our resilient people, and ourselves.
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