Mom and I finally started our cross-country road trip to take most of my belongings (except for all the stuff that wouldn't fit in the car and is still sitting in my long-suffering friend's basement in Utah) to Tennessee. It's a lovely road trip. My ever-lovin' mother is a great travel companion. She thinks of good songs to sing and she changes the CDs and this morning she spent 20 minutes holding a map up against the windshield to block the rising sun in Kansas so it wouldn't blind me while I drove. Here are a few things I would change about this road trip if I had it to plan over again, though.
Good Change:
I would remember to pull out all the good road trip CDs before packing the car. They're in the trunk somewhere. John Denver. I need John Denver.
Even Better Change:
I would go back to 2003 and purchase a car with cruise control. My knee just about broke in Kansas.
Best Change:
I would ask my parents to drive the car to Tennessee back in July when they came to visit before I went to Europe. I could have completely avoided three days of driving in the wake of a giant winter storm. Not that I don't love spending Halloween in a wacky inn in Strassburg, Colorado conveniently located within feet of the train tracks.
4 comments:
John Denver is only appropriate in the car. Be safe.
John Denver is excellent for cross-country trips! Especially if you live in West Virginia and "Country Roads" comes on. :-) Sorry about the no cruise control. It's a life saver for me and all my 1/2 hour trips to get anywhere around here.
Eliana--Agreed. But he's absolutely essential in the car, especially in Kansas.
Heidi--True. Singing the WV state song at the top of your lungs is also a very good activity in the car in WV.
Absolutely agree with you on John Denver. Barry Manilow and Neil Diamond aare my other road trip guilty pleasures.
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