Over at The Daily Beast, I have a new piece (“It Wouldn’t Be an American Road Trip Without Roadside Chapels“) on my summer road trip, particularly the experience of roadside chapels I discovered along the way to see seven national parks and monuments. Check it out.
“Cover the earth before it covers you,” said philosopher Dagobert D. Runes. American travelers apparently agree, as there has been a record number of visitors to the national parks since 2016 (over 330 million) and a sharp increase in U.S. vacations by road trip—from 22 percent in 2015 to 39 percent in 2016.
And yet, as vacationers are covering the earth on this side of life, it doesn’t mean they aren’t also thinking about covering heaven as well.