We just finished driving NY to FL. 27 hours straight through. We alternated driving every 3 hours. 2 kids, 1 dog, 1 rabbit. One adult in back of the van resting. One kid in the middle playing x-box or reading or playing with the animals or whatever. One adult with one kid navigator up front. We did the straight thing on the way up too. We've done it in 2 or sometimes 3 days, but really you end up just as tired as when you stop.
Different strokes and all that, but this more or less describes why my idea of the perfect road trip is "no longer than it takes to get to the airport".
If I'm ever in a car crash, onlookers will think someone dropped one of those Korean War-era propoganda bombs from all the loose paper that will be floating everywhere in the vicinity.
We wanted to have the kids fly up to make the trip less crowded, but they shocked me and said they would rather road trip with us. Must be the junk food thing.
Flying with 4 people and 2 pets is tough. We did leave the cat home. 3 pets were just too many for the van.
Timelies all!
Urgh. I just paid over $1200 to get my car tuned up and fixed.(The tune-up revealed carbon in the manifold, a leaking timing chain tensioner and flat spots on the tires) The next credit card bill's gonna hurt like hell.
a turducken but with issues instead of meat.
I kind of want to tag this, even though it wasn't about me.
The turducken analogy is killing me.
Snack food for cars:
Homemade chocolate chip cookies
Tim Horton's Donuts or Timbits (that is about the only time I actually buy Donut's)
Coffee (Not nec. Tim's)
Diet Pepsi
Fries
I hope you didn't want healthy foods.
This is making me hungry for the Trader Joe's carrot cupcakes in my cupboard at home. Mmmmmm
When I was a kid, many of our road trips were in the camper. Which gave lots of comfortable sitting/laying locations, but trying to sleep on hot summer nights with mosquitos and my dad's snoring - NSM fun.
It turns out that HJO was drunk AND stoned when he wrecked his car. Bummer for him. But at least he didn't start a bigoted rant.
Kat you are making me laugh and laugh.