Crossword puzzle clue "not just a trip across town"

Not just a trip across town

Money for a trip across town, say

Not worth the trip, as a town

1980 William Hurt film (and what eight answers herein contain on a trip across the country)

How the crew said the trip across the bay was?

"So you never know — next time we take a trip across the country we might even ___"

Provider of a trip across a desert?

Illegal trip across the median strip, perhaps