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bestcee

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Are you a road trip lover or road trip hater? What's your favorite road trip destination?

At the very last minute, as in 10 pm my time! I've decided to take munchkin and the dog to visit the parentals. I am a road trip lover, and a little excited to go without DH. He prefers audiobooks in the car, I prefer music. But since he's usually the driver for most of the trip, audiobooks it is.

I've got our lunchtime stop picked out. Now to pack! And maybe cry a little at leaving beautiful weather for cold, inversion weather! #WhatWasIThinking?!?
 
oh my, what fun!!
We are traveling family!! I love road trips. Our new van has a dvd player in it, and it is a hit! We went to the big city tonight. El Paso! woot and Lego Movie and Pup Patrol had children in a trance. I am gonna have to load up my kindle with audio books and music and have headphones, cause I can't handle another Chase is on the CAse howling. bhahah
I love love to travel!!
We are going to San Diego in July, and plan on just kickin' it around, nothing fancy, just relax on beach for 18 hours! lol
 
I love road trips. I had so much fun when I went to VA and NC a couple years ago. I just had a list of things I could go see and made the call on the day I was there. Totally relaxed and just enjoying the drive and scenery.
I don't have any planned yet this year. Hopefully a couple to Seattle and a couple to my favorite state park. But this whole year is up in the air with where I'll land -- job or home getting in shape and learning more about myself and where I'm headed.
San Diego is a little far and I'd have HOT country to drive through or go down the coast. It's tempting.
 
I really like road trips too. It's so much different now that my boys are old enough to entertain themselves the whole time, but I used to put together road trip boxes for them when they were little. I'd have little snacks and water bottles so I wouldn't have to hear "I'm hungry" or "I'm thirsty" and then I'd give them a brand new notebooks with markers and crayons and stickers galore and other little toys that were new from the dollar store so they'd be excited to see what was in their box and then I'd stuff every other crack full of books. :) I kinda miss those days. Now they are so good at entertaining themselves they barely talk to us! Lol!
 
I absolutely love road trips!

My husband doesn't get them though. He's a drive non-stop until you get to your destination type of guy. We're trying to break him of that habit, but it hasn't worked yet.

My parents, on the other hand, are great road trippers. A few years ago, two summers in a row, the kids and I went on a road trip with them. The first year's big destination was Yellowstone and the second year's was Niagara Falls. We had an end point designated for each day and some ideas of what stops we might make, but it was really flexible. We scoured the brochure stands at the hotel each night for ideas and sometimes just made command decisions to follow road signs and billboards. I truly love seeing all of those smaller attractions and kitschy shops.
 
I love road trips...

except

road trips that involve me driving or road trips that involve babies or toddlers.

Driving from IN to WY (and back 3 months later) with a child under 2 is certainly a form of torture in some other country.

:smackdown :poke :spin :stars :tantrum
 
LeeAndra said:
road trips that involve me driving or road trips that involve babies or toddlers.

Driving from IN to WY (and back 3 months later) with a child under 2 is certainly a form of torture in some other country.
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Agreed!! We drove from Texas to Michigan one summer when Clara was either 2 or 3. A waitress at a restaurant commented about how cute she was and we jokingly(??) offered to give her to her. I was seriously done.
 
I don't like driving and, if you asked dh husband, I'm not a good passenger either. :)

And yup: road trips with young kids would be a level of Dante's Inferno if cars had been invented. DD hated the car as a baby. She'd cry and scream if we drove for more than 20 min. Seriously. So 2.5 hour drives to see the grandparents were terrifying for me, especially when I was nursing. Thankfully she's better now. And once DS can read, I think road trips will be easier. And when both kids can use a restroom by themselves, road trips will seem like a breeze!
 
Lots of road trips to see our parents, yup lots of little kids, etc. The worse - gotta be the sick child vomiting in his car seat, not once, but twice in the same trip. My tip for ya'll with littles - put a bed sheet over the backseat, under the car seat. And if you are in stopped traffic and your 4yr old has to pee - let them go on the side of the road - it is better than an urine socked seat. Ask me how I know.

Now that the youngest is 15, we just load them up and go. Although it is a bit challenging when the pup-dog goes too. She likes to ride up front on the passenger's lap on a pillow.
 
Love me a good road trip...especially if I'm traveling with my girlfriends. We always have so much fun. We usually don't even have music on because we chit chat the whole time. So relaxing to me.

I once drove from South Lake Tahoe to home just me and my daughter. She was 11 months old at the time. It's about a six hour drive. She cried for about 5 1/2 hours of the time til she finally passed out. I even had the DVD player going and that didn't keep her entertained. I had to pee so bad by the time she finally passed out and I was determined to make it home without stopping. If I had to pee on my seat I would have. Haha! That was the most miserable trip ever.
 
Hmmm...I guess I have a love hate. If it were a road trip to just drive and end up where you end up with no super huge commitment and could stop leisurely I might like it more. We have always done roadtrips like Point A (Michigan), to point B (usually FL or NC), so it is like an 18-22 hr drive usually and it is TOO long!!!
 
I have a habit of picking up & driving to San Diego (8hrs). I love it there. Many a time, I've just booked a hotel at the last minute & gone. We used to have Sea World passes because I would just go whenever for whatever reason. We took that mini-vacation to Six Flags on New Year's Day, that was spur of the moment. That's only a 2hr drive though.
 
We love road trips! It takes about 6 hours to get to my mom's house from ours- and we make that trip every few months! We are also planning a summer road trip from our home in Eastern WA to South Dakota where my best friend lives- we're stopping at Yellowstone, Mt. Rushmore & some family in between too! I can't wait!!!

As a kid- we went on road trips a lot. I remember driving (riding) to arizona & california multiple times to visit grandparents! :)
 
We just drove from Minnesota to Montana this summer...broke the drive out into two and a half days but drove the 17 hours straight through on the way home. Have made many 10 hour roadtrips to see my daughter play basketball when she was playing in college ...five hours there, watch the game, five hours home - usually getting home between 1:00 and 2:00 am. LONG days!! I don't mind roadtrips. We may be flying out to California this summer and roadtripping down the coast. Fingers crossed!!
 
I love road trips on my own but both men who became my husband just want to get to a place. Current man says...just tell me where you want to stop. Uh, how will I know til I see "it"? Most women I've been on road trips with are fine with...OH Look! - brakes jam on! we may get lost but we don't care. The joy is TRULY in the journey.

But all that said, current dh and I decided to have a vacation in Park City UT one year. We live in MD. I said, how about if we drive??? he thought about it for a bit then happily got planning. (His engineering work morphed into long range planning so trip planning is just plain fun for him.) We rarely got off interstates on that trip but just seeing the different landscapes of our country was enough for me. It was a lot of driving and those flat rectangle states were tedious imho. See one cornfield, you've seen em all... But all in all it was a fun trip. Strangely enough, I have no recollection of the return part.???????
 
I love them, but now they're usually focused around skating competitions. When I was carefree and single my housemate and I would wake up on a Saturday morning and say, Let's go somewhere. We lived in Madison, WI at the time, so it would be the Amana Colonies in Iowa, Chicago, Minneapolis/St. Paul, just wherever our little hearts desired. It was so fun!

What I really want to do is when my DH retires is to purchase an 18' Airstream trailer and travel around the country to the different national parks. Now, that would be fun!
 
We love road trips ... near or far - and most generally have no where in specific we will end up! We have a Harley Davidson, so during the summer we take road trips as often as possible. During the colder months we take shorter trips ... usually when we have hubby's work truck, so we can explore the back (gravel) roads ... we just like to pick a direction and go! We've stumbled across a lot of great little antique shops and restaurants on our trips.
 
QuiltyMom said:
What I really want to do is when my DH retires is to purchase an 18' Airstream trailer and travel around the country to the different national parks. Now, that would be fun!
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Buying a class A RV is top on our bucket list when we retire ... we have a "destination" list already started - that is in addition to seeing the national parks in the US!

Do you still live in Wisconsin? We are about 20 miles south of Monroe, WI - small world!!
 
I've been driving long distances since I was like 13. lol.
My dad moved to TN when I was 12 and he'd come and get us. He started letting me drive part of it when I was 13. I'd turn the music up and help him out with my siblings in the back singing along.
As long as I have music and snacks, I don't mind driving or riding. Hubby likes music and so do the kids, so that's usually our go to entertainment. And now with them older they have tablets, and DS's and books and MP3 players of their own!!!

It's pretty easy breezy now.
 
I used to love road trips more so than I do now. I'm more of a "get there as quickly as I can" gal now. I think it's because I spend so much time in my car already. I drive an hour and a half round trip every day to work, and I've been doing that for 28 years. So I have a love/hate relationship with driving these days. Maybe in retirement it will be more fun :)
 
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