We can’t resist the call of the open road. Give us a blue highway or an interstate, the autobahn or a muddy path to who-knows-where. We don’t really care where we’re going. We don’t really need a why, either. Road trips can, as Bill Belleville writes in “The Distance Between Then and Now,” sometimes descended on us like a religious vision. And sometimes, as for Mark Edward Hornish in “Kissing E with the Hair Band,” they’re just about seeing what’s happens when you’ve got no gas left in the tank. Here are eight road trip favorites from our archives