Getting outside and meeting people might reveal we’re more alike than different

When Lauren Hough set off across America in 2023 in her self-refitted second-hand Dodge van, she had the twin goals of circling the US and not traumatising her dog, Woody Guthrie.

As readers setting off across a deeply polarised nation in the company of a six-foot left-wing lesbian who is no fan of the ‘orange […] ...