road trip, it is a commonly held belief that commuting by means of automotive transportation should not qualify as a road trip, regardless of the distance. Some argue that travel may not require a set distance to qualify as a road trip. In the United States In the United States, a road trip typically implies leaving the state, or in extreme cases, leaving the country for places such as Canada or Mexico. However, in larger states, travel within the state may also be considered a road trip. In terms of popularity, road trips have become loved and revered to an extent that a National Road Trip Day has been established. It is observed every Friday before Memorial Day. In popular culture Literature Bill Bryson, The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America (1989) F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Cruise of the Rolling Junk (1924) Victor H. Green published annually The Negro Motorist Green Book (also referred to as The Negro Traveler's Green Book or simply as The Green Book) Jack Kerouac, On the Road (1957) Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita (1955) Mary Roberts Rinehart, Through Glacier Park in 1915 / Seeing America first with Howard Eaton (With Illustrations) John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley: In Search of America (1961) Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream (1971), a roman à clef, rooted in autobiographical incidents Mark Twain, Roughing It (1872) Photography In The Open Road: Photography & the American Road Trip (2014), the photography writer David Campany introduces the photographic road trip as a genre, the first book to do so. Robert Frank, The Americans (1958) – Sean O'Hagan, writing in The Guardian, about the inclusion of The Americans as the starting point in Campany's The Open Road: Photography & the American Road Trip, said "Swiss-born Frank set out with his Guggenheim Grant to do something new and unconstrained by commercial diktats. His aim was to photograph America as it unfolded before his somewhat sombre outsider’s eye. Ed Ruscha, Twentysix Gasoline Stations (1963) Stephen Shore, Uncommon Places (1982) and American Surfaces (1999) Films Many movies and other forms of media have been made which focus upon the topic of road trips, including the namesake. Many tend to be comedic in nature, although road movies such as Easy Rider and Thelma and Louise exemplify the American dream. Easy Rider (1969), an American road movie