Heavy traffic downtown in our town yesterday. Ah, holidays, I figured. School is out. Last minute shopping. Meeting for drinks and meals, doing holiday things under the weak sunshine in the forty-degree air.
Which kicked Lindsey Buckingham singing “Holiday Road” (1983). I know the song from that classic comedy, National Lampoon’s Vacation with Chevy Chase. We were on Okinawa when it came out (military), and saw it on video at home. The movie became a favorite.
“I found out long ago,
“it’s a long way down the Holiday Road.”
“Holiday Road” has a lot of energy but not many words, yet it conveys that whole sense of excitement of jumping into the Family Truckster and braving the Interstates for a family vacation.
I especially like the dog’s barking at the song’s end.
Hope your Holiday Road is a smooth and safe one this year. Let’s be safe out there.
Had to include something of National Lampoon’s Vacation, right?
Michael Seidel, writer 
It’s so weird–I had NO idea that Lindsay Buckingham did that song!
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So surprising, right? Like, “Where was I? How did I miss that?”
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Does Lindsey Buckingham have any songs for the deep depression you feel when the vacation is over?😂
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Ha – I don’t know of one. Someone out there surely made one by now.
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😂😂😂
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