On the third day of the trip, walking into a convenience store at a truck stop, and seeing absolutely nothing that even looks remotely palatable as a snack. You’re just so burned out on the whole damn subject you’d rather wait until you can get real food. And that’s several hundred miles away yet. Okay
@2many2no I think I took I-40 back east after going over the rockies in my house but 2010. Nice weather in February. Pretty terrain. Less traffic. I didn’t dislike the portion I drove but was just that side
@BioBill if on an actual road trip, I.e. interstate highways there’s wasn’t really any “stuck in traffic” and usually plenty of rest stops.
Where are you getting stuck in traffic?
If carrying passengers. Especially kids. Got to be watching for them and ask them as you go… Plan stops at attractions…
I honestly don’t know what it would be like today. We had no electronics. We had travel books. Checked out the max on our library cards to read. Played games in the car.
Now they have phones and tablets they should not even notice
@BioBill@unksol I remember playing a kind of bingo with pictures. Also our trips predated seat belt laws so my parents would fold down the seats in our old Volvo wagon and us kids would spread out and play games. I had a big box of Lego blocks. I’d make a box and hand it up to my mom and she would fill it with her homemade Chex mix and give it back to us to snack on. When we took the camper and pickup us kids would lay up top in the cabover and look out the big window. At gas stops my parents would buy us comic books. Over the years we accumulated quite a collection.
@BioBill@tweezak I’m not sure on the seatbelt laws. But we would go to the orchard to pick stuff and sometimes we had the seats folded back in the station wagon so we could play with those big blocks. I think half of mine were other brands grandpa picked up at their flea market. So were tom swift.
I do know dad had this little metal clipon thing that would route the over shoulder that would kill a kid back to the lap…
And I only recall him using it going around the 4-6 house block cause we wanted to be in front… So may not have been that common
The stiffness and soreness in your old body when you get out of the car
@Cerridwyn And then feeling the need to sit down seconds after the stiffness gets worked out.
On the third day of the trip, walking into a convenience store at a truck stop, and seeing absolutely nothing that even looks remotely palatable as a snack. You’re just so burned out on the whole damn subject you’d rather wait until you can get real food. And that’s several hundred miles away yet. Okay
Worst part? Paying for the multiple tanks of gas. Worse even than having to monitor the weather reports.
Highway hypnosis.
There’s stretches of road that just knock you out.
I’m talking about you, I-40
@2many2no I think I took I-40 back east after going over the rockies in my house but 2010. Nice weather in February. Pretty terrain. Less traffic. I didn’t dislike the portion I drove but was just that side
How about having to go to the bathroom while stuck in traffic.
@BioBill if on an actual road trip, I.e. interstate highways there’s wasn’t really any “stuck in traffic” and usually plenty of rest stops.
Where are you getting stuck in traffic?
If carrying passengers. Especially kids. Got to be watching for them and ask them as you go… Plan stops at attractions…
I honestly don’t know what it would be like today. We had no electronics. We had travel books. Checked out the max on our library cards to read. Played games in the car.
Now they have phones and tablets they should not even notice
@BioBill @unksol I remember playing a kind of bingo with pictures. Also our trips predated seat belt laws so my parents would fold down the seats in our old Volvo wagon and us kids would spread out and play games. I had a big box of Lego blocks. I’d make a box and hand it up to my mom and she would fill it with her homemade Chex mix and give it back to us to snack on. When we took the camper and pickup us kids would lay up top in the cabover and look out the big window. At gas stops my parents would buy us comic books. Over the years we accumulated quite a collection.
@BioBill @tweezak I’m not sure on the seatbelt laws. But we would go to the orchard to pick stuff and sometimes we had the seats folded back in the station wagon so we could play with those big blocks. I think half of mine were other brands grandpa picked up at their flea market. So were tom swift.
I do know dad had this little metal clipon thing that would route the over shoulder that would kill a kid back to the lap…
And I only recall him using it going around the 4-6 house block cause we wanted to be in front… So may not have been that common
@BioBill @tweezak also would today’s kids even notice if they were up their iPad/phones.
Id be in a book and “look up kids” plus senic views. Lets stop and hike down this trail
Granted they used to be able to save up for 8 weeks off
Long stretches of boring landscape.
I love road trips
@Sasha3398 I love turtles