Do you take road trips with your family? Or do you avoid them because the thought of being cooped up in a vehicle for hours on end overwhelms you?
I have great memories of family road trips. We flew for some vacations, but many of our family trips when I was growing up involved driving to our destination. Often the journey was a big part of the vacation itself. Of course back then we were bouncing around in the back seat with no seat belts and could just lay down on the seat to sleep (maybe I'm showing my age a little now!). I'm glad some things have changed. Safety first :)
Early in our marriage I shared my love for road trips with my hubby. He'd never traveled very far by car so it took a bit of getting used to. But it's MUCH more economical than flying and since having our kids we've only taken road trip vacations. Our kids don't know any other way of traveling.
Road trips can be great. Or not. I've heard plenty of horror stories of road trips gone bad. Sometimes those make for great shared memories... years later anyway! Like the time my parents' car got tired of pulling a trailer through the mountains. We were already hot because we didn't have A/C, but when the car started overheating, we had to turn the heater on full blast. Not fun at the time, but funny to look back on now.
You can't control everything on a road trip, but over the years I've learned a few tricks to help make road trips great. I'm sharing them with you so you can plan a great family road trip too!
