: Re: If a story includes a cross country road trip, do the highway and city names need to be real? If a story includes a cross country road trip set in the USA in 1970’s, do the highway and

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No.
If you use accurate routes and city names, remember to do your research in detail, but when doing a work of fiction, the particular details of the setting can be fictitious as well.
Research is still, of course, needed to make the places sound like a backwater, a fair sized town, what have you -- especially of the region you situate it in -- but many authors have invented places so as to construct exactly what they want.

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