What's the license plate game?

I've heard tell it's about spotting license plates from different states. So, she who finds the most states wins, I imagine. We never played games on long road trips (and rarely made them), because my one sister and I were too busy hating each other furiously and guarding the invisible line down the middle of the back seat for unauthorized encroachment. This may be why we didn't take many long road trips.

Oh, and we get a long great now.

Nilly! Great to see you, too. I think I posted and ran yesterday.

We went on a lot of long trips when I was a kid. Once, in an undertaking perfectly appropriate to Minearverse, we drove from central Florida to Montreal and back. Even my sister and I can only fight for so long, so we did the license plate game, something which makes you think there can't be anyone left in Ohio, and the animals game, which is counting the number of cows, horses and so on that you see.

Huh. We tried to find license plates from states beginning with a particular letter, working our way through the alphabet.

You have no idea how grateful we were for "Quebec", which showed up reasonably often in the Midwest.

There's also "I spy with my little eye".

We tried to find license plates from states beginning with a particular letter, working our way through the alphabet.

We did that with signs, but license plates only counted when we were really desperate. And at that point we would probably switch to Password or something.

My dad and my brother spent a while during one drive in a game where they tried to spot the next mile marker first. It took my brother quite a while to realize that my dad had the odometer in front of him.

Ooo, there should be an episode of Drive that's all about travel games.

Kids these days, with their DVD players in their cars....

I would have killed as a child to be able to watch movies during trips. Instead of playing the license plate game and fighting over who had to sit on the vomit side.

Pfft. My family drove 18 hours to Canada (and back) every year, and we had no need for these new-fangled "DVDs." We had The World's Greatest Travel Game, and that was enough.

On long trips (more than 8 hours) we usually took the camper, so us kids could take naps on the top bed. Usually I had a stash of Red Hots hidden up there too....

Not sure if it's legal for people to ride in campers anymore....

Lacking DVDs, we did license plates, mile markers, animals and how many miles until we get there. We also read aloud every sign and tried to get my dad to stop for antique stores (Mom), museums (me) and bathroom breaks (all of us who were not Dad). We also got to listen as Dad did a running commentary on the cattle we passed. "Look, they've bred some Brahma into this herd. I wonder how much it helps with heat resistence."

My dad would stop so we could look at the "Hysterical Markers." (My dad often thinks he's funny....)

I just read books and got accused of being antisocial by my mother.