I like that you chose to start your audio with just your voice instead of using music. It gives the listener a preview of what your are about to describe in your audio; your tone towards New Jersey, your setting and what might happen next. After the guitar/banjo starts playing it  sets up a  theme that there is going to be a southern(ness) background towards your essay. I am already imagining the country side you cannot wait to leave. You descriptions are very detailed 0:36-0:52, 3:20-3:40 I can see already picture the small quiet town, the older white possibly republican hunter families debating politics. I can see the eagerness you feel in getting out of your hometown, packing up for a road trip, exhausted by small minded and “patriotic” townspeople. The recordings you used in 2:00-3:00 and 5:14-5:24 goes in and out nicely but it is a bit too loud at some parts and makes it hard to understand what you said which takes away from your story.