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Californians love the open road, and there’s no time like the summer for a drive around the Golden State.

I’ve done my share: solo trips from my parents’ house in south Orange County to Berkeley with nary an auxiliary cord and only a disgusting energy drink for company.

There was the time I got caught in a snowstorm on the way to Lake Tahoe, the drive spent clutching the wheel as I rolled through highways outside Sacramento blanketed by mist. Another trip, a friend and I accidentally took a very long route from Bakersfield to Pismo Beach.