Editor’s note: This piece was originally written by Natasha Heinz during the Spring 2018 semester. It can be read in its entirety here.
A friend recently came to visit me for two weeks around spring break. Before Luiza arrived, we planned a trip that included a weekend in New York, a few days in Kent and a way too long drive to Florida in search of warm weather and sun. Almost nothing about the plan bothered me. We’d spend most of 14 days just the two of us, with nowhere (and no one) to run to after arguments, but we had traveled around Germany together in 2012 and we were still friends. I couldn’t get one thing out of my head, though: What would we listen to during the trip?