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May 17, 2020

Home on the Road

Writer Ralph Gray and his family occupied this motor home as they traveled along U.S. Route 89. His story, published in April 1964, followed their adventure from Maryland to Canada, through many of America's iconic national parks.

photograph by JAMES P. BLAIR, nat geo image collection

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