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18 Great Road Trip Books That Aren't ‘On the Road'
'A fast car and an open road can give you a sensation that's hard to duplicate elsewhere or otherwise,' Cormac McCarthy wrote in his powerful late-career novel 'The Passenger.' The car doesn't even have to be all that fast for you to want to stick your head out of the window and whoop. Summer is the season for road trips, for tapping into that broad and baked-in American narrative of adventure and individualism, for pushing past the constraints of home and career, for fleeing responsibility and learning to love fuzzy dice, low riders, monster trucks, loud stereos, vanity plates, muscle cars and non-factory shades of cherry red all over again. 'Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me,' Jack Kerouac wrote in 'On the Road,' a novel that is revered for a reason; the spontaneity of Kerouac's prose was a perfect fit for intensity of the free-flowing visions of America that came flooding to him. Cars are confessionals. They're often where we tell our best stories. What follows is a list of road trip stories, fiction and nonfiction, that have moved and inspired us in the years since 'On the Road' appeared in 1957. All were written in a spirit of enlightened inquiry. Some are introspective; others have the pedal pushed fully to the floor. Some are primarily about running away; others are about rushing toward. When needed, they've braced our lapsing morale. In an era of cellphones and GPS, it's harder than it used to be to go get lost — but it remains worth the effort, especially in an era when the notion of what America is, and who we are, is so fundamentally up for grabs. Road trips are, oddly, grounding and often humbling; they can help the wanderer stay sane in a demented world. We've picked these 18 sensitive and intelligent books because they are like motorcycles that start on the first kick. Pick one and hold on. SEEKING: HEAD SPACE America the Beautiful? by Blythe Roberson (2023) 'Women have written fewer books about being free on the road or in nature for the obvious reason that women are less free than men are,' writes Roberson in her breezy, antsy, archetypically millennial account of touring national parks as a single white female in a borrowed Prius. A comedian and former researcher for 'The Late Show With Stephen Colbert,' she encounters kids peeing, mighty bison and triple-digit temperatures while confronting the myths behind the monuments. Her many jokes about being murdered aside, the reality of 21st-century road trips is that they are almost too safe, what with geolocation and packs of Instagram influencers. Roberson considers how much of travel is actually trespass. ALEXANDRA JACOBS READ IF YOU LIKE: 'Wild,' by Cheryl Strayed; 'The Last American Road Trip,' by Sarah Kendzior; 'National Lampoon's Vacation.' SEEKING: NIRVANA The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, by Tom Wolfe (1968) Nearly 60 years after its publication, Tom Wolfe's classic of New Journalism is still worth a look. Wolfe rode along with the novelist Ken Kesey and his Merry Pranksters on a cross-country tour in a bus named Furthur. ('Caution: Weird Load' read a sign on the back.) Acid is consumed; Feds are dodged; jam sessions ensue; mayhem is constant. The cameos by Allen Ginsberg, the Grateful Dead, the Hells Angels and Larry McMurtry are worth the journey. This is off-kilter, star-spangled Americana. DWIGHT GARNER READ IF YOU LIKE: 'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas,' by Hunter S. Thompson; 'The Moronic Inferno,' by Martin Amis; 'Easy Rider.' These days I prefer Joyce Johnson's memoir, 'Minor Characters,' about her time with Kerouac. But I did read 'On the Road' again a few years ago and it got to me all over again. Kerouac's exuberance is what sucks you in, but his powers of description are what hold you in your seat. — DG I can't get out of my head Truman Capote's insult that Kerouac merely typed rather than writing. But I love comparing his twentysomethings — the slang, the ragged maturity, the internetlessness — to today's Gen Z #vanlifers. — AJ I'll confess that even though it's a pretty short book I've never finished it. I can't get into the voice, which seems intoxicated by itself. The magic has always eluded me. — JS SEEKING: A FRESH START The Lincoln Highway, by Amor Towles (2021) Nebraska in midcentury, summer: In this sturdy novel of male bonding, Emmett Watson is an orphaned 18-year-old just released from a work farm. His only possession of worth is a 1948 blue Studebaker, in which he plans (meticulously) to take his brainy, much younger brother Billy west. But a couple of stowaways — one conniving, the other blue-blooded and clueless — will throw up serious road blocks. Moral ambiguity rolls in faster than a San Francisco fog. — AJ READ IF YOU LIKE: 'East of Eden,' by John Steinbeck; 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,' by Mark Twain; 'Manhattan Beach,' by Jennifer Egan. SEEKING: A SENSE OF DIRECTION Driving Mr. Albert, by Michael Paterniti (2000) Marriage, mortality and the theory of relativity undergird this account of a cross-country trip with an octogenarian pathologist. But Paterniti, a veteran magazine writer, makes his weighty themes go down easy. In addition to the typical road-trip cargo — clothes, snacks and, because it was the 1990s, a box of audiocassettes — this journey also includes a priceless item filled with metaphor (and formaldehyde): plastic Tupperware containing chunks of Albert Einstein's brain. JENNIFER SZALAI READ IF YOU LIKE: 'Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers,' by Mary Roach; 'Einstein's Dreams,' by Alan Lightman. South — always south. My wife and I got engaged on a road trip through Mississippi, Tennessee and Alabama, where I proposed in a restaurant known for its fried chicken. — DG A couple of years ago, my family drove from Las Vegas up to Death Valley and then down along the edge of the Mojave. Death Valley was sublime, in the truest sense of the word: beautiful and a bit terrifying. — JS The one that takes me back to New York City. But the Niagara Falls, with their tremendous rushing sound, rainbows and tantalizing peek at Canada, never disappoint. — AJ SEEKING: RELIEF FROM GRIEF I Am Homeless if This Is Not My Home, by Lorrie Moore (2023) Here is one of the most unusual road trips in the canon: Riding shotgun is a talking dead (undead?) woman — the driver's ex-girlfriend, a suicide — on her way to a body farm in the south. The result is a humane, folk-horror adjacent comedy of manners as only Lorrie Moore could have told it. The car sex is … well, find out for yourself. This pair travels under a 'wheeling ceiling of the stars' and 'the ambiguous emoji of the moon.' — DG READ IF YOU LIKE: 'Her Body and Other Parties,' by Carmen Maria Machado; 'An American Werewolf in London.' SEEKING: LOST LOVE The Road to Tender Hearts, by Annie Hartnett (2025) Ollie and Luna are Irish twins, fourth graders whose parents have just died in a murder-suicide involving Visine-laced coffee. They have fallen to the care of their great-uncle PJ, a divorced, unemployed drunk lottery winner and survivor of multiple heart attacks, whose older daughter also perished as a teen. What is this bereaved crew to do but hop in a red Volvo (safety first!) with PJ's depressed other daughter, Sophie, and a possibly prescient cat named Pancakes? 'The Road to Tender Hearts' is absurdly over-the-top in plot, yet warms like a heated seat. — AJ READ IF YOU LIKE: 'Little Miss Sunshine'; 'The Wangs vs. the World,' by Jade Chang; 'The Boxcar Children,' by Gertrude Chandler Warner. I didn't grow up with a car, and so my road-tripping has mostly been as a grown-up, trying to keep my own kid entertained. A reliable standby was Ghost — each person names a letter that's supposed to add up to a word, but the loser is the one who is forced to finish a word. A game easier to play than explain! — JS My husband likes a variant called Superghost, for which you add letters on both sides. He is humiliatingly superior at puzzles as well as driving. — AJ We'd play a game in which everyone must tell a brief story, funny or tragic, about each part of their body, working from the toes up to the hair. (No, not the naughty bits.) — DG SEEKING: SEXUAL ADVENTURE Tramps Like Us, by Joe Westmoreland (2001) This openhearted and winningly casual novel tracks one young gay man's coming of age while crisscrossing a wilder and more benevolent America in the 1970s and '80s. He hitches, drives and rides buses from Kansas City to San Francisco to New Orleans and almost every place in between, in search of love, adventure and high times. Originally published by a small press, this reissue is a lost, heat-seeking road classic. — DG READ IF YOU LIKE: 'City Boy,' by Edmund White; 'The Basketball Diaries,' by Jim Carroll; 'My Own Private Idaho.' SEEKING: ACCEPTANCE (NOT ACCOMMODATION) Nevada, by Imogen Binnie (2013) This fresh, funny, heartfelt and down-to-earth novel, a cult favorite, is about Maria, a trans woman who lives in New York City and works for a bookstore that sounds a lot like The Strand. When her life blows up, she steals a car and embarks on a cross-country road trip to Star City, Nevada. Maria is great company — she makes this crazy country feel like her own. Supply your own soundtrack. — DG READ IF YOU LIKE: 'Idlewild,' by James Frankie Thomas; 'Housemates,' by Emma Copley Eisenberg. Southwest: Martha's Gardens in Yuma, Ariz., for the best date shake. Northeast: Rein's Deli in Vernon, Ct. Try the Rachel and thank me later! — AJ These days my favorite stop, on the way up to Maine, is Lobster Landing in Clinton, Ct., for its ideal (warm, buttery) lobster rolls. — DG There's a big, modern rest stop on I-95 in Delaware that has a Burger King *and* a Panda Express. Because it has a huge arched roof over a glass structure, we've started calling it Winged Victory. — JS SEEKING: STARDOM (HOLLYWOOD) Anywhere but Here, by Mona Simpson (1986) A mother and daughter from Wisconsin drive to Beverly Hills and mutual exasperation in Simpson's kaleidoscopic novel. Ann, 12, tries to manage the whims of her mother, the charismatic and reckless Adele, who treats Ann as a confidante and a show pony instead of the confused girl she is. Adele's sense of fun and pleasure outstrips her ability to pay for it: She is charming and maddening at once — a woman who doesn't know what to do with her thwarted dreams. — JS READ IF YOU LIKE: 'Where'd You Go, Bernadette,' by Maria Semple; 'My Name is Lucy Barton,' by Elizabeth Strout; 'Terms of Endearment,' by Larry McMurtry. SEEKING: stardom (Broadway) Gypsy: A Memoir, by Gypsy Rose Lee (1957) Madam Rose, the most (in)famously determined stage mother of all time, used to 'troupe' around with her young daughters by train, then by a secondhand Studebaker once owned by an undertaker. But when Mama's favorite runs off, it leaves awkward Louise — who became the famed stripper Gypsy Rose Lee, the author of this lightly embroidered, eponymous memoir — as the star of the show. This book itself had quite the taxi ride: it started as a 1943 New Yorker piece, and ended up adapted on Broadway.— AJ READ IF YOU LIKE: 'Act One,' by Moss Hart; 'Striptease,' by Rachel Shteir; a double feature of 'Burlesque' and 'Showgirls.' 'In Such Good Company,' by Carol Burnett. Who wouldn't drive better with Carol Burnett on the passenger side? — AJ 'Hitch-22,' by Christopher Hitchens. He's the ideal, ironical reader of his own work. — DG I can't say it's better than the book, but I love John le Carré's audiobook of his memoir, 'The Pigeon Tunnel.' He has such a charming, soothing voice — not a surprise for a former spy. He also does all the accents. (The only dud is the American one — too much twang.) — JS SEEKING: THE GHOSTS OF THE PAST Sing, Unburied, Sing, by Jesmyn Ward (2017) Instead of embarking on the open road, a mixed-race family drives through haunted Southern terrain, from the Mississippi coast to the Delta and back. Jojo is 13; his sister, Kayla, is 3. Their mother is addicted to drugs and grieving the brother she lost. Driving to the prison where the children's father has just been released and their grandfather did time decades ago, they get stopped by a cop and are visited by a ghost. In Ward's moving and mournful novel, the struggles of the present are inextricable from the past. — JS READ IF YOU LIKE: 'Beloved,' by Toni Morrison; 'As I Lay Dying,' by William Faulkner; 'Sinners.' SEEKING: THE OTHER AMERICA Blue Highways, by William Least Heat-Moon (1999) Least Heat-Moon had just lost his job and his wife when he got into the 1975 Econoline he named Ghost Dancing and traveled eastbound out of Missouri, using back roads that old highway maps marked in blue. Looking for those little towns 'where change did not mean ruin and where time and men and deeds connected,' he encountered beauty, heartache, fellowship and loneliness. His voice is wry, companionable, attentive and intermittently grumpy — wonderfully suited to capturing the particularities of the terrain and the people he meets. — JS READ IF YOU LIKE: 'In Patagonia,' by Bruce Chatwin; 'Let Us Now Praise Famous Men,' by James Agee; 'Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance,' by Robert M. Pirsig. 'Tigerlily,' by Natalie Merchant. Pure nostalgia for me, but my teenager happens to like it too, which has put it at the top of the list, at least for now. — JS The Philadelphia Sound. IYKYK! — AJ If you mean albums only, I'd say John Hiatt's 'Slow Turning,' Amy LaVere's 'Stranger Me,' James McMurtry's 'Live in Aught-Three' and two by the Gourds — 'Dem's Good Beeble' and 'Stadium Blitzer.' But ask me tomorrow and the albums will be different. — DG SEEKING: SAFETY Driving the Green Book, by Alvin Hall (2023) From 1936 to 1967, millions of Black motorists relied on 'The Negro Motorist Green Book,' a guide to where its readers could safely eat and sleep while on the road. This was a road trip guide of a different sort, and back issues of the Green Book, remnants of unfortunate national history, are unaccountably moving. In this book, Alvin Hall explores the history of the Green Books and goes on road trips himself, visiting places, like Montgomery's Ben Moore Hotel, where Black Americans have long felt welcome. The result feels like a homecoming. — DG READ IF YOU LIKE: 'Negroland,' by Margo Jefferson; 'The Nickel Boys,' by Colson Whitehead. SEEKING: A WAYWARD WIFE The Dog of the South, by Charles Portis (1979) 'My wife Norma had run off with Guy Dupree and I was waiting around for the credit card billings to come in so I could see where they had gone.' So begins this frazzled yet eloquent novel that takes us, after the narrator packs up his Colt Cobra, from Arkansas down into Mexico and then Honduras. Portis, who also wrote 'True Grit,' is a marvelous observer — and this novel may be the fullest flowering of his particular kind of genius. The title refers to the name painted on a hippie wagon. The novel is a trip. — DG READ IF YOU LIKE: 'The Dog of the North,' by Elizabeth McKenzie; 'So Far Gone,' by Jess Walter; anything by Joy Williams or Barry Hannah. 'The Price of Salt,' by Patricia Highsmith (1952). Seeking freedom, getting blackmailed. A dark mix of sex, repression and religion. — JS 'By Motor to the Golden Gate,' by Emily Post (1916). — AJ 'America Day by Day,' by Simone de Beauvoir (1948). It's an anodyne title for a quietly mesmerizing book. The French writer and philosopher, introspective by nature, travels by car, bus and train, clocking the nation's problems and absurdities, but also its joys. — DG SEEKING: A SURROGATE MOTHER Hearts, by Hilma Wolitzer (1980) Daddy is dead — and your stepmother of six weeks is in charge of your future. What else can 13-year-old Robin Reismann do but hop in a car with Linda, who's only twice her age, has just learned to drive and — oh, by the way — is secretly, unintentionally pregnant? Set in post-women's lib, pre-Reagan America, 'Hearts' is about fraying and knotting family ties until they're as lumpily beautiful as macramé. It's the straightforwardly written story of a girl on the precipice of womanhood and a woman not ready to renounce her girlishness; it's about putting grief in a cooler and taking it to go, until it can be properly processed, far from what was home. — AJ READ IF YOU LIKE: 'Tiger Eyes,' by Judy Blume; 'Fun Home,' by Alison Bechdel; the work of Laurie Colwin. SEEKING: A STOLEN INHERITANCE Cruddy, by Lynda Barry (1999) The adolescent Holden Caulfield found things 'crumby.' Roberta Rohbeson, Barry's much less privileged 16-year-old, digs further down to 'cruddy.' Five years before, she stowed away with her father on a manic, booze-fueled homicidal spree that stopped at the slaughterhouse and climaxed in the Nevada desert. The riddle is how a trip darkened by abuse, gore and drugs — recalled with despair and a smattering of spookerific drawings by the author known for 'Ernie Pook's Comeek' strip — can be so very funny. — AJ READ IF YOU LIKE: 'Bastard Out of Carolina,' by Dorothy Allison; 'Carrie,' by Stephen King; Quentin Tarantino movies. SEEKING: THE UNDOCUMENTED Lost Children Archive, by Valeria Luiselli (2019) Road trips and children can be the stuff of narrative kitsch: ready-made motifs for freedom, coming of age and the American dream. Luiselli turns those conventions on their head in this formally inventive novel about a couple traveling from New York to Arizona, their marriage collapsing and their two children from previous relationships in tow. The husband, a 'documentarian,' is looking for the ancestral lands of the Apaches; the wife, a 'documentarist,' is looking for the undocumented children of a friend — two girls who crossed the border from Mexico. — JS READ IF YOU LIKE: 'Enrique's Journey,' by Sonia Nazario; 'Signs Preceding the End of the World,' by Yuri Herrera; 'The Poisonwood Bible,' by Barbara Kingsolver; 'Solito,' by Javier Zamora. SEEKING: ME TIME All Fours, by Miranda July (2024) A middle-age woman — doting mother, restless wife and 'semi-famous' artist — sets out to drive from her home in Los Angeles to New York and ends up checking into a motel in Monrovia, 30 minutes away. She spends thousands of dollars to redecorate the room according to her absurdly exacting specifications (botanical wallpaper, New Zealand wool carpet, tonka bean soap) and uses the time and solitude she carved out for her unconsummated road trip to stay put, learning more about who she is and what she wants. — JS READ IF YOU LIKE: 'Don't Be a Stranger,' by Susan Minot; 'Fish Tales,' by Nettie Jones; 'Fear of Flying,' by Erica Jong.
Fox News
an hour ago
- Fox News
McLaren Boss Zak Brown Believes F1 Blueprint Can Lift INDYCAR Team
Zak Brown has built a Formula 1 team that has emerged as the team to beat in the world's most prominent racing circuit. Now, the McLaren Racing CEO is attempting to use the same blueprint to build his INDYCAR program into an organization that can have a similar stature to the McLaren Formula 1 program. But at least one question remains: Is that blueprint applicable for a series that has more limitations when it comes to team control of body style and engines? "One-hundred percent [the same] and it's all people," Brown said earlier this month. "It's about having the right people, getting the right people on the bus." As Brown has found, it will take time. He's brought people on the bus. He's thrown them off (see former team principal Gavin Ward). He now has former driver Tony Kanaan running the program. Kanaan was quite popular during his driving days. He brought in driver Christian Lundgaard to replace Alexander Rossi, and Lundgaard has nine top-10 finishes and is fourth in the standings (Rossi had 11 top 10s last year and was 10th in the standings). And Nolan Siegel, in his first full season, has had the inconsistency one would expect of a rookie. Brown recently added Kyle Moyer as competition director after Moyer was let go as part of the Team Penske technical violation issues over the last two seasons. The team will also move into a new, bigger shop in January. This shop will increase the work space from their current 33,000 square feet to 86,000 square feet. "[It's] having the resources, the equipment, the technology, the driver," Brown said. "So I feel like we have everything, but we're young, and we can't stretch our elbows because we're not in a workshop that fits our goals and desires from an investment like in technology and things of that nature. "We're a big three-car team that's in a small two-car shop. With that, we've got buildings all over the place where there's storage units and paint shops, and that's not an ideal environment to work in." With two wins this year, Pato O'Ward sits second in the standings. Lundgaard is fifth. Siegel — who missed a race with a concussion — is 21st. Brown insists he's not making a run at Will Power, the Penske veteran who is still unsigned for next year. There has been speculation that McLaren could be interested. "I've heard everything you've heard," Brown said. "I've got the same drivers next year." Driver stability has not been something Brown has enjoyed on his INDYCAR program. Going back a few years, he had Alex Palou signed before Palou decided he would stay at Ganassi. In the wake of that was McLaren's $31 million lawsuit against Palou. Palou has admitted a breach of contract and a trial is scheduled for late September and October to determine how much Palou owes McLaren. David Malukas was signed by McLaren prior to the 2024 season but then a mountain biking accident resulted in a wrist injury and McLaren opted to release Malukas before he ever drove a race for the team. That resulted in a couple of reserve drivers until the team signed Siegel, who was running well in Indy NXT. "I am happy we've kind of had a year or two of driver stability. That was extremely disruptive, even more so than I would have even thought," Brown said. "It's just what I spent all my time on. "So it's good that that's kind of behind us. It's not totally behind us, but it's behind us from a distraction factor." Brown believes they are the best they have been and have room to grow. The team is the former Sam Schmidt-owned team that McLaren initially merged with more than five years ago. "I feel like we've got everything we need," Brown said. "Now we need to gel as a team, continue to drive the culture forward. I think where the team came from, it was like midfield mentality ... [and] we now have the culture of the team and the mindset of anything kind of short of podiums and going for the win is kind of a disappointment. "We've shifted from we're kind of happy to be there and get the occasional good result to we're here to win championships and Indy 500s. So you can see the team taking a step forward in their expectations of themselves, which is how a Penske and Ganassi and Andretti show up every weekend — with the intention of winning and anything kind of short of that is a bit disappointed." That doesn't mean Brown looks at 2026 as the year his organization will be on top. "Of course, we want to run for the championship next year," Brown said. "But reality is, I think we'll be stronger in '27 than we are in '26 because we're only moving into the shop at the end of '25. "These new hires have just started, so I think '26 is another year of gelling before I feel like '27 will be it." Brown says that because he thinks they just need time. "We've got drivers that can win the championship," Brown said. "I think we've got equipment, technology, the level of sponsorship that you need. I think we've got everything, but it takes time. No different in a relationship. You know someone for a week versus 10 years in. You can look at each other [and know]. "We just need a little bit of time to bring everything together, where the right foot knows what the left foot is doing, and they can get to a point where they can look at each other and communicate, versus having to communicate." One thing Brown got to experience for the first time came recently when he was in attendance for an O'Ward win at Toronto. It was the first time he was at a victory since McLaren took over the team. "It's the first one he's ever been there in the flesh," O'Ward said. "That was really cool." Bob Pockrass covers NASCAR and INDYCAR for FOX Sports. He has spent decades covering motorsports, including over 30 Daytona 500s, with stints at ESPN, Sporting News, NASCAR Scene magazine and The (Daytona Beach) News-Journal. Follow him on Twitter @bobpockrass.
Yahoo
an hour ago
- Yahoo
These are the cities where an Uber ride is going to cost you the most
Taking Ubers is getting expensive across the nation but a half-hour ride in certain states and cities is going to do far more damage to your wallet than in others, according to a new analysis. Net Credit collected the average price of a 30-minute ride in an Uber in locations across the U.S., and found ride-share passengers in Washington state are paying the most, with a half-hour drive costing on average $53.46. On the other side of the list is Indiana, where the average half-hour ride in an Uber will cost around $30.35. Other states with less expensive rides include Texas at $30.96, Utah at $30.71, and Oklahoma at $31.54. But a ride in plenty of other states is going to cost upwards of $40. The average price of a half-hour Uber ride in California, Oregon, Wyoming, Montana, Louisiana, Alabama, Delaware, New Jersey, and New York are all at least $40, and rides in several other states — South Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Arkansas, and Nevada — will cost just under that mark. When it comes to individual cities, Seattle tops the list as the most expensive city for a half-hour Uber ride. In Seattle a half-hour ride costs almost $60, according to the analysis. The nine next most expensive cities for Ubers aren't necessarily each the sprawling, wildly expensive, cities one might expect. Those are Cheyenne, Reno, New York City, San Diego, Baton Rouge, Newark, Anchorage, San Jose, and Portland. The cheapest overall city for Uber for a half-hour ride is Indianapolis where it'll cost around $28.33. Following Indianapolis, the most affordable cities for taking an Uber are Fort Worth, Tucson, Mesa, Omaha, Miami, Oklahoma City, Raleigh, Houston, and Memphis. According to Net Credit, the price of Uber rides increased by 7.2 percent across the country in 2024. Net Credit noted that part of what may be driving down prices in Indianapolis is the appearance of a competitor, inDrive, which allows riders to propose a price for their ride, and drivers can counter-bid for a higher fee. 'We're giving both the driver and passenger the freedom to kind of choose their own adventure," Adam Warner, the company's head of U.S. operations, told Net Credit. 'So you get to select the driver. Are you willing to wait 10 minutes for this person to pick you up in a Tesla Model Y, or are you comfortable with the Chevy Malibu that's only two minutes away to pick you up?' Net Credit also worked out which city's Uber costs were the most and least expensive relative to the average wages of its residents. The city with the most affordable Uber rides — relative to its residents' average hourly wage — is Washington, D.C., where a 30-minute trip will still cost riders 106.5 percent of their average hourly wage. Following the nation's capital, the most affordable cities for Ubering relative to residents' average hourly wages include San Jose, San Francisco, Fort Worth, Indianapolis, Stamford, Raleigh, Boston, Mesa, and Baltimore. The least affordable city was determined to be Cheyenne, Wyoming, where a ride is 224 percent of a resident's average hourly wage. Reno, Baton Rouge, New Orleans, Jackson, Seattle, Fresno, Las Vegas, Augusta, and Buffalo made up the rest of the list.
