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Road Trip Pad Patter 2.3.17

I love road trips!! We would drive to our family camp in the upper Michigan ( we live in the lower) every summer with our kids It is a 10 hour drive.
At the end of October me and my hubby decided to drive to Colorado Springs where my daughter lives. 10 hours first day and 8 the next day but we did a audio book and music and conversation. It was so much fun and so nice to see the country!!
 
When I was little we lived in California and most of our extended family lived in Utah. So we went on trips quite a few times to see them. One summer my Mom and us kids went on the California Zephyr (train) to Salt Lake for a few weeks and then back and that was tons of fun. But going by car is the best as I love stopping to see things and just taking our time to really enjoy the journey. My husband used to be a go and get there quick person but has relaxed about it a lot. Now we will even go part way and then stay somewhere overnight and then go on the next day. I like that we have both relaxed and like to just take it easy along the way. Makes the trip a lot more fun. :)
 
I just went on a road trip last weekend (and took laptop so I could still be an MOCer). My daughter and I drove from DFW to Columbus OH for her last semester at seminary! We listened to one of the Women's Murder Club books. She really likes to drive so I was just there for company and to buy gas and food! :)
 
JillW said:
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!!
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No, were in Virginia. I left Wisconsin in the late '80s.
 
tkradtke said:
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.
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yes this is us - and its just not possible to drive non-stop without toilet breaks and back stretch stops and coffee and then more toilet breaks LOL and such for the rest of us

we have probably flown more places than we have driven but we've learnt that our GPS takes us via backroads a lot or via a C shape route when a straight line (btwn the start and end of the C shape) woulda been more logical to us and we end up seeing random places we wouldn't have even found brochures for and some of them are really fun to hop out and take a look around - it's about the journey, afterall, as well as the destination
 
and i totally get that arguing over car stereo control becomes the main problem on road trips!
 
I love road trips! I grew up with my family doing them & I enjoy doing them now with my family.
I like that I get to sit and talk with my hubby while the kids do their own things in the backseat of the van.
 
I :heartslub:hehe:heartlub road trips! I would actually much rather drive to most destinations than fly (of course, that only really works if we're going somewhere in North America). I don't mind the actual flying, but the hassle of the airport and security have pretty much killed the fun of that mode of transport. So, drive it is!

Our longest road trip was 4,300 miles + 14 days hauling our camper in a loop from home through a bunch of western states and then back again. It was AMAZING! We drove to Disney World a few years ago, and I'm driving back solo in a couple of months. I'm already stockpiling the audio books for that trip. :)
 
I grew up doing road trips and did some when our kids were growing up. I've been known to set off on a road trip all by myself. I love driving and would load my car up with scrapping supplies (back when I was paper scrapping) and drive to FL to visit family and sightsee and scrap. Or load it up and drive to TX to scrap with friends there. The MOC day 31 page I did was my trip to TX, then on to AZ, and back again with my husband along for the ride back. When the two of us road trip, I drive and he naps a lot. It's such fun to be able to leave enough time so you can make spur of the moment decisions to stop and see something. The last time we drove to FL from WI I remarked about the number of times we've driven past Mammoth Caves and never gone to it. On the way home, my husband suggested we stop there and we had a lovely day exploring there.
 
We love taking road trips where we have a specific destination but we stop along the way. We took a road trip down the coast of Oregon a few years ago and ended up driving the sum total of 12 miles one day when there was so much to see along the way!
We just got back from visiting with our daughter in Savannah and took several overnight road trips during the week while she and her husband were at work. We took one to Hilton Head and Charleston, then another to Jekyll Island and down the coast to St. Augustine. There's so much to see in that area; we just loved it!
 
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