One of my new initiatives is to try to make more effort to talk to complete strangers

Driving across this great country of ours has (as usual) filled me with the longing to know more about the lives of the people around me. However, I face the typical problem of the traveller: there is literally no reason for me to talk to the people around me. I've become fairly good at talking to people when there's even the thinnest excuse for me to d…