- Having extra leg room (e.g. seven passenger van with only five people in it) really helps!
- Taking an empty suitcase or large duffel for souvenirs would have helped.
- Next time we stay overnight in the middle of a long drive, we're taking one change of clothes for everyone, plus toiletries, and putting it in one duffel bag...so all the suitcases don't have to come out of the car at the hotel. I thought of this on the way back home, and it made the hotel experience much easier.
- Having a variety of snacks, plus a case of water, was great.
- Having trash bags for empty snack packs and water bottles was nice.
- Having a power adaptor (electrical plug to car socket) was a plus.
- Having a vehicle with three (!) sockets was very nice: one for the GPS and two for the DVD players and the electronic games.
- Having a printout of Google Maps directions was helpful. It gave us the courage to ignore the GPS when it started telling us to do crazy things that didn't make sense.
- Giving the GPS a cute nickname increases the entertainment factor. We all had a good laugh when our youngest would yell out, "Be quiet, Bertha!"
- Every time we hit a different state, we took a potty break at the welcome center. The kids had a ball picking out road maps and brochures.
- It helps if at least one person in the car is silly enough to come up with creative modifications of place names on the road signs. For instance, in North Carolina...Fayetteville became Fajitaville. (OK I think that being hungry had something to do with it!)
Hope your road trips and summer vacations have all been grand!
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As a kid, at the rest stops, yes, rifling through those travel brochures was a favorite thing to do!
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