Reveal: Your road trip should have led you to 7 US cities in the grid. 16A, 22A, 29A, 37A, 44A, 57A, 68A. If you use the first letter of the states in which these cities are located, you get COMPASS. On a side note, for those of you that may have missed it, the directions N, S, E, & W are situated in their appropriate squares. Also, in the corners on a diagonal between the black squares you’ll see NE, SE, SW, & NW.