My default mental car trip is 18 hours with 4 kids in the car, so food is kind of a must.
Wash: So, two days in a hospital? That's awful. Don't you just hate doctors? Simon: Hey. Wash: I mean, present company excluded. Jayne: Let's not be excluding people. That'd be rude.
'Ariel'
Natter 46: The FIGHTIN' 46
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Jessica - Aug 17, 2006 11:30:37 am PDT #3265 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Matt the Bruins fan - Aug 17, 2006 11:31:22 am PDT #3266 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
I'd say valium is even more of a must in that situation.
sarameg - Aug 17, 2006 11:32:24 am PDT #3267 of 10001
That used to be mine (well, more like several 8 hour days and camping) until I drove from NC to NM in 2 days on my own. That's now my mental roadtrip.
Jessica - Aug 17, 2006 11:34:01 am PDT #3268 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Nah, not when you've got The World's Greatest Travel Game! Also, it helps to take the trip every year, starting with very young kids, so that they're good and used to it by the time they're old enough to be annoying. Oh, and the car should be a full-sized van, so there's room for all 6 passengers to stretch out.
sarameg - Aug 17, 2006 11:35:55 am PDT #3269 of 10001
Also, it helps to take the trip every year, starting with very young kids, so that they're good and used to it by the time they're old enough to be annoying.
Yeah, that never worked with us (though just two of us.) We turned annoying into an art form.
juliana - Aug 17, 2006 11:40:47 am PDT #3270 of 10001
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
Mmmm, my mental roadtrip is Fairbanks to Anchorage. 350 miles, 6 to 6.5 hours, 3 gas stations, 1 honkin' big mountain range. We must have made that trip once every two weeks or so in the summers after we got our drivers licenses, once just to see Much Ado About Nothing in the theater. This was, of course, back when gas was still hovering around $1 - $1.25/gallon.
amych - Aug 17, 2006 11:42:56 am PDT #3271 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
I dislike eating in the car, and I'm also not a fan of car trips long enough to require it.
Katerina Bee - Aug 17, 2006 11:44:40 am PDT #3272 of 10001
Herding cats for fun
The last time I drove with a cat in the car and not in a cage, the cat insisted she had to be in the one place I wouldn't let her go - on the floor by my feet (and the gas and brake pedals).
In my experience this is a cat universal, except for the totally deaf one who liked to go on rides in the car. Somehow they understand it is the one place in the car you really don't want them to be, so they insist upon trying to wedge their bodies into that space.
We turned annoying into an art form.
Snerk.
Katerina Bee - Aug 17, 2006 11:44:51 am PDT #3273 of 10001
Herding cats for fun
whoops
bon bon - Aug 17, 2006 11:45:00 am PDT #3274 of 10001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
I'm with amy.
However, y'all made me go get Twizzlers.