Thanks for the lovely amount of feedback! This story was largely inspired by the American road trip me and my sister took almost a decade ago. I'm glad my intent of a chill, cozy trip between friends came across, and you enjoyed the characters :)
I do get what you're saying about how densely packed it feels. And I hadn't realized at first that some sentences feel over-nested. I WAS wondering whether or not I should add more to the story, like couple more locations, but I decided to go ahead anyway since there's some other stuff I kinda got going on atm and I didn't want worry about juggling TOO many projects. Doesn't mean I won't go back into this story! I do like the idea of expanding on this story a bit more, so there's plenty of opportunities to work on those details.
Thank you once again for your feedback! :D