{"id":213,"date":"2026-06-01T12:39:50","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T12:39:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/propertytransitionmedia.com\/?p=213"},"modified":"2026-06-01T12:39:50","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T12:39:50","slug":"my-familys-bicentennial-road-trip-taught-me-what-it-means-to-be-american","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/propertytransitionmedia.com\/?p=213","title":{"rendered":"My Family’s Bicentennial Road Trip Taught Me What It Means To Be American"},"content":{"rendered":"
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What I remember most about our nation\u2019s big bicentennial celebration in 1976 was the bears in Cherokee National Forest. We awoke one morning to three or four of them calmly ransacking our campsite, as my parents, my sisters, and I watched from inside the Volkswagen camper we were driving across the country that summer.<\/p>\n

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That was half a century ago, and maybe we weren\u2019t as aware of wildlife best practices. Or maybe we just weren\u2019t expecting bears. But as one pawed its way into our styrofoam cooler, we watched with a Disney-dulled fascination \u2014 and a misplaced confidence in what that VW Westfalia could withstand, should even a moderately sized black bear find it interesting.<\/p>\n

The bears soon moved on to other campsites without incident, but my sisters and I spent much of the rest of the trip spinning increasingly gruesome stories about how the Bear Encounter could<\/em> have turned out if the bears had known about the peanut butter crackers in the back seat.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Yet with the bears came a revelation to my 12-year-old mind: America was still at least a little bit wild. And America being wild felt proper and good \u2014 not a tame lion.<\/p>\n

That trip helped to form my view of the United States as something big, bold, and wonderful. My love for America can be traced back to the hot summer days we spent traversing her forests, fields, highways, and historical sites. Reagan hadn\u2019t made his famous commercial yet, but it truly felt like morning in America.<\/p>\n

But does that America still exist? I\u2019m taking some time this summer to find out. In the classic, The Devil and Daniel Webster<\/em>, we learned that if you go to Webster\u2019s grave and call his name aloud, you\u2019ll hear his deep voice ask, \u201cNeighbor, how stands the union?\u201d <\/p>\n

Perhaps that\u2019s what I\u2019m asking today.<\/p>\n

1976 vs. 2026<\/strong><\/h2>\n

In the summer of 1976, just as now, we were a deeply divided nation. The fall of Saigon was still a fresh wound on the nation\u2019s psyche, as was the Watergate scandal and its political fallout. Georgia Gov. Jimmy Carter was building up a massive lead in the presidential race (up 30 points after the Democratic National Convention in July). Inflation was a driving factor; the Ford administration was never able to bring inflation down, though Carter himself would bring about a new measure of economic misery: \u201cstagflation.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

None of that mattered much to me, though. I was in it for the camping and the battlefields and the fireworks and the fanfare. I suppose I bought into the hype. In school, we studied the Founding Fathers, we painted the fire hydrants patriotic colors, and my family spent hours with a road atlas, planning possible routes.<\/p>\n

But it didn\u2019t seem like hype then. It felt as if we all, despite our divisions, had come to a consensus on one thing, at least: America is pretty great and worth celebrating.<\/p>\n

We did what many families did at the time; we sought to commemorate the bicentennial in our own way. We drove from our home in northern Florida to Montreal (and back). The trip lasted six weeks, and that was only possible because my parents were teachers. But as teachers, they must have saved money for months to make it happen.<\/p>\n

Our VW Westfalia camper was built in 1968, with a 1.6-liter engine that could work itself up to a whopping 50 horsepower. Our top speed was about 55 mph (downhill), quite in keeping with the new federal speed limit. But the truth was, we couldn\u2019t speed if we wanted to. There was no air conditioner. VW didn\u2019t offer AC even as an option for that model year. But that wasn\u2019t uncommon; we simply kept the windows open and the radio on.<\/p>\n

I brought as many books with me as I could. That summer, I was reading biographies of our founders and other figures from American history, and I didn\u2019t stick to the ones written for children.<\/p>\n

We had a camping box (built with the help of my dad\u2019s friend, the shop teacher) and a Coleman tent. That was enough for all five of us. We had a rough itinerary, with drives of between 200 and 300 miles between sites. We visited the big ones: Mount Vernon and Washington, D.C., Gettysburg and Appomattox, the Liberty Bell and Niagara Falls. Watching the tall ships sail into New York Harbor left me with a lifelong love of sailing and ships.<\/p>\n

Our trip began at the Open Pond campground in Conecuh National Forest near Andalusia, Alabama, only about 100 miles from home. We were well familiar with that campground, and that first night served as a shakedown cruise of sorts. Our usual camping habit was to get a few miles from home, then one of us would remember something really important, and we\u2019d have to backtrack. By starting close to home, we ensured that whatever was left behind wouldn\u2019t cost us more than a few hours.<\/p>\n

Much later in life, I found a verse from Emily Dickinson that truly captures the feeling of the start of a trip: The sailor, she writes, knows \u201cthe divine intoxication of the first league out from land.\u201d The poem is called \u201cExultation Is the Going,\u201d and she gets it right. It\u2019s that nearly impenetrable joy when the trip is all promise (so far) and no disappointments (yet). All of America was before us, and we had a road atlas \u2014 a thing I still take immense joy in, even as GPS renders them quaint. Exultation was in the going.<\/p>\n

Were there disappointments? Of course. I didn\u2019t know it at the time, but we weren\u2019t a wealthy family. Pay for a high school band director in 1976 was $12,000 to $13,000 per year. That wasn\u2019t bad (about $70,000 today), but there were five of us, and travel can be expensive. I don\u2019t remember a single restaurant on the trip, though I remember the hot dogs, pork and beans, Bisquick pancakes, and endless peanut butter sandwiches we ate along the way.<\/p>\n

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Nor do I remember gift shops or souvenir stores. As we traveled north through the Appalachian Mountains, we saw the innumerable signs urging us to \u201cSee Rock City\u201d and \u201cSee Ruby Falls.\u201d When we asked, my dad would laugh knowingly; he wasn\u2019t going to be fooled into stopping at any expensive tourist trap. I now suspect we were simply on a tight budget.<\/p>\n

Yet there was one souvenir that did come home with me. After the very nearly fatal and almost completely disastrous Bear Encounter, my parents bought my sisters and me each a black bear plushie on a leash.<\/p>\n

My sisters were delighted. For my part, I resented the cute red plastic leash. I felt it undermined the true degree of danger we faced. Sure, the bears in Cherokee National Forest were mostly interested in our food, but bears are bears.<\/p>\n

They weren\u2019t particularly expensive toys, but they didn\u2019t have to be to put a dent in a family\u2019s vacation budget. I knew what my parents meant with the purchase. This is important<\/em>, they were saying. Remember this.<\/em>\u00a0<\/p>\n

And I do. In a lot of ways, that trip formed me as a citizen.<\/p>\n

Was the bicentennial celebration of 1976 \u201cwhitewashed,\u201d as critics at the time claimed? I don\u2019t believe so. The historical sites we visited didn\u2019t shy away from any discussion of slavery. But it also wasn\u2019t the only<\/em> story they told, in the way The New York Times\u2019 \u201c1619 Project\u201d demands.<\/p>\n

In fact, the bestselling nonfiction books of 1976 included The Final Days<\/em> (Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein\u2019s wrap-up of Watergate) at No. 1, and Roots<\/em> by Alex Haley at No. 2, long before it became a miniseries.<\/p>\n

So even in the bicentennial mania of 1976, our nation\u2019s failings were front and center. But if there\u2019s one thing a 12-year-old knows well, it\u2019s that ability and action often take time to catch up to aspiration. The underlying truths remain: All men are created equal, and we have rights government can\u2019t take away \u2014 not even in the name of equity.<\/p>\n

We\u2019re already hearing charges of \u201cwhitewashing\u201d being leveled against America\u2019s 250th celebration. (And for the record, I refuse to learn to spell semiquincentennial; bicentennial took me long enough.)<\/p>\n

\u201cThis corrupt, dishonest White House is trying to use America\u2019s 250th milestone as a stage to promote an alternate reality and Trump\u2019s fake America,\u201d California Democrat Congressman Jared Huffman claims. \u201cThe darker parts of our past are airbrushed out.\u201d<\/p>\n

Huffman also has a problem with one of the claims of the Freedom 250 \u201cEvents Toolkit,\u201d which reminds Americans, \u201cOur rights come not from government, but from God.\u201d He apparently missed the \u201cendowed by our Creator with certain inalienable rights\u201d part in the Declaration of Independence.<\/p>\n

The modern rejection of that principle \u2014 now common among Democrats \u2014 is not an indictment of an \u201coutdated\u201d document. Instead, it\u2019s an indictment of our civics education. Ordered liberty requires \u201cinformed patriotism,\u201d as Reagan reminded us.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Voices like these can\u2019t drown out the truth. America was and is the freest and most prosperous nation in the history of the world. She is not perfect, but she is good.<\/p>\n

I think the founders understood that, too. The Constitution\u2019s curious phrasing of \u201cin order to form a more perfect union\u201d always seemed hopeful to me; America was not established with any illusion of being<\/em> a perfect union. Instead, that \u201cmore perfect union\u201d is presented as a goal to work toward for each generation, sometimes referred to as the \u201ceternal effort.\u201d<\/p>\n

The goodness of America is directly tied to the greatness of America. It\u2019s that goodness I find myself looking toward now, as I plan to revisit some of the bicentennial sites. Not retrace or repeat that trip \u2014 my own kids are grown, and none of us get summers off anymore. But I will reconnect with some of the touchstones that tell America\u2019s story because it\u2019s a story that needs to be retold, or it will be drowned out by the noise of these postmodern times.<\/p>\n

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