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  Highway to Hell It's vacation season in America, which means millions of families are loading enough luggage to survive the apocalypse into an SUV designed to hold groceries. Dad swears he'll "make good time." Mom packs enough snacks to feed a minor league baseball team. The kids begin asking, "Are we there yet?" before the neighborhood is out of sight. Somewhere in the back seat, somebody forgot to charge an iPad. And just like that...the vacation has officially begun. Every summer we convince ourselves that spending twelve hours trapped inside a metal box with the people we love most is a recipe for making memories. It is. Some of those memories require therapy. No, not everyone dies on vacation, and somehow many wonderful experiences accidentally happen which we record on video and innumerable photos. The family looks back years later and forgets all the fights, the disappointments and the time Dad forgot underwear. You should be mindful of the dangers ...