Now that we know (some of the) vacation plans, let’s talk about road trips, which maybe for vacation, or to see family, or go to someone’s life-cycle event, the doctor on the mainland, a (long) weekend away, which may or may not be considered a vacation, a convention, &/or a race.
I’m between road trips right now, having just completed a loooong one. Next one is much easier ≈3 hrs / day for 4 consecutive days.
Do you like to drive, passenge, or not be in the car at all?
What is your go-to snack/drink?
I like Parmesan Goldfish, easy to grab a handful of & that flavor isn’t too messy or requiring a lot to drink. My friend likes Cherry Twizzler bites, which I do, but they’re dangerous as I can eat ½, or more, of the bag.
Built-in GPS, stand alone GPS (Garmin, TomTom, etc.) or your phone for directions? Or are you old fashioned & still use maps?
I prefer to drive on road trips. I really don’t have any go to snacks, I just stop and eat when I need gas. And I use Google Maps on my phone for in town navigation.
I’m not crazy about road trips. Maybe in an RV where I could walk around, but hours in a car varies from tedium to torture. You can imagine how much I’m looking forward to driving from Merrylande to Orlando, FL in April and again in May.
Generally, I prefer to drive, but I’ve learned to deal with being the passenger. I’ll pack something to knit when I’m not at the wheel, and it helps pass the time. And very recently, I’ve learned to snooze in the car - something I wasn’t able to do for most of my life. I don’t know if I’ll be able to relax that much when driving with my sister in April - this is the sister who has totalled 3 cars - technically, it was never her fault, but still…
Snackage while driving isn’t that appealing to me - either my hands gunk up the steering wheel or I worry about having a choking fit while driving. Chewing gum usually works best for me.
As for navigation, we’ve got separate GPS in 2 of the 3 vehicles, in the Porsche, it’s built-in, but we don’t road-trip in that. I like to look at a map - paper or online - before we head to a new place. I like to carry a mental image of where we’re going. It’s not that I distrust GPS, it’s just that I feel better with a map in my head. That’s one of my adorable quirks.
Good Mornin’ Y’all! Up and caffeinatin’. YAWN ‘Tis 44 Amurrkin out and cloudy with a predicted high of 71 and mostly N.O.S. for the day. We’re promised rain tomorrow. Rah. Today I shall continue with readyin’ the bedrooms for paintin’ which shall begin tomorrow. As I mentioned in the last MMP I may be somewhat scarce this week while all this is goin’ on.
We don’t really road trip unless you count trips to our respective Ye Olde Home Townes. No need for navigation devices for that as that’s been done so many times we can just point a vehicle in the direction and just go. If’n navigation is needed we use our phones. Like MOOOOOOM I like to look at a map before I get on the road just to get a mental image in my haid.
Now I need more caffeine and rumbly tummy wants to be fed. Then, onward into the day! Rah.
I’m still yawning, but I actually got a pretty good night’s sleep last night.
Other than my leg hurting and I don’t know why. I got up for a bladder call and could barely stand up, it hurt so bad.
It still hurts this morning but not as much.
I hate to drive, I hate riding even more.
Just the hour and a half to two hour drive to the armpit is more driving than I want to do.
There was a time when I liked driving or at least didn’t mind it.
Now, not so much.
Other than irk I don’t know what I am doing today.
Depends on how my leg feels.
My road trips over the last decade have been from no. Illinois to Lexington, KY. Most years I drove with a friend and we switched drivers every 3 hours. Our snackage was sandwiches we brought, and what we bought from rest stop vending machines. The times I’ve done the road trip solo, I didn’t snack, just smoked.
Mystery of the day/night. I wear a dental bruxism apparatus at night. The cat sleeps on a folded blanket at the end of the bed. This morning my mouth guard was not in my mouth. I’ve been known to take it out occasionally. I found it under the cat blanket. Did I put it there (sleepwalking), or did the cat find it after I took it out, and moved it?
wet one, obviously the cat took it out of your mouth why you were sleeping and hid it there. Because cats love messin’ with our heads.
Slept until almost 8am today, making up for not sleeping well on the weekend. Rainy out, which imperils my initial soccer practice this evening, we’ll see what happens.
I road trip up to my brother’s house several times a year, and I need to start taking more, since 7-8 hours of driving in a day don’t bother me that much. Might drive to Charlotte, NC in June for a soccer tournament.
I would much rather drive. The last few times we went to the mainland with hubby driving it looks like to me, as the passenger, that he tends to hug the center line but he says he is not. I tend to hug the outside line so I am pretty nervous the entire time. It is probably an optical illusion as he is normally an excellent driver.
I have to go back in April. We use our phones for navigation the first time we go somewhere but once is enough for me to know how to get somewhere I have been before. There is only one road in and out after all.
Off irk today and already doing chores. Tis never ending around here.
Construction or back-mountain two lane roads and I am the driver; open highway its the OW. She is just a ton better at super-slabs than I am.
Ice-tea and jerky. Which, come to think about it, would be a good name for a hillbilly rap group.
We have a Garmin (who we lovingly refer to as “Direction Bitch”) but for the most part we use maps. We like to plan routes with a high chance of shiny objects more than we do the fastest/smartest route Garmin seems to like.
Now on the motorcycle -------- no snacks, maybe a bottle of water tucked in my jacket, and usually I just point a compass point and ride. Totally different thing. I have been known to go from the North Side to Crafton (6.2 miles) through three states and 200 miles or more.
Just completed a long road trip last week; Texas to New York.
I’ve done this before (both ways) but it seem longer than usual this time because the car I was driving this year didn’t have a CD player so I couldn’t follow my usual practice of listening to audiobooks.
I have a GPS (an old TomTom) but I keep a road atlas on hand because occasionally my GPS acts up.
I don’t snack much during drives but I do like to buy a bottle of soda in the morning as I set out and then sip from it all morning.
I drive a long day, usually around eleven hours but I like to break it up with stops along the way. My usual practice is figuring out where used book stores or game stores will be along my route and stopping at three or four of them during the course of my drive.
On that note, McPhrey’s in Chattanooga is closing its doors this month. Too bad as it was a good book store.
I am just about ready for the painters tomorrow. I disassembled a futon this mornin’. Fun times! Da cave is a wreck but I shall deal. Gotta move stuff out of a room in order to get the room painted and the stuff has to go somewhere. Then it gets to go back where it came from. However, I am glad to finally start doin’ this as it’s been needed for a while.
I found some old road maps of Jawja from sixty to seventy years ago a few years back. Fun to look at 'em and see how much roads have changed.
I prefer to drive rather than fly, especially where I will go 1000 miles or less or where I am visiting multiple cities. The rigamarole of flying and then renting a car takes up most of the day anyway, and that’s assuming the flight isn’t delayed or cancelled.
I always am the driver though since I am rarely accompanied. When I am, I prefer to do the riding rather than driving since it would invariably be on a strange car.
I have a handheld GPS with a lousy map, which I use only as a backup to printed out Google maps and an atlas. I can take it hiking with me, though: I use it in conjunction with printed out Google maps, where I manually scrawl the GPS coordinates of key waypoints.
When I was a young’n and drove little British sports cars I drove cross-country a lot. Probably a dozen times or so. I used to go about 700 miles a day. These days more than a couple of hours in the car wrecks my back, so I don’t want to go anywhere.
If I have to go back east, say to visit a relative who’s getting ready to cross the ‘rainbow bridge’, I fly.
I hate flying too. It’s not so much that I’m afraid of being up in the air, or falling out of it, even though I know we’re just being held up there by magic, it’s that I detest the airlines and airport security so much.
I’d really rather travel by train, except that it’s so much more expensive than flying. :dubious:
Anyway, we use navigation by phone when on the road. I kinda like that ‘Wayz’ app, especially when I was able to get the Mr. T voice. “Turn left, fool!” Or else we use Mapquest.
We don’t travel far enough to require snacks, but we always have a bottle or two of water with us.
Since moving to the sticks, it seems getting anywhere requires a road trip. I’ve not got any big ones planned at the moment though; maybe back up to the ol’ stomping grounds, which is 2.5 hours, next month. Barely counts. Maybe up to Welsh Wales, to go to Cardiff flower show. Dunno, really.
I prefer not to drive, if I can avoid it, unless the person driving is a crazy person. If I can, I’ll get public transport, but that tends to be crazy expensive on the train, and, depending on the route, takes far too long on the coach. I am, however, a master (mistress? It don’t sound right) of cheap travel. If there is a cheaper way, I will find it.
If I have to drive, I will buy a large bag of crisps, the ‘sharing’ kind as snacks. I will optimistically believe that this will last me the full drive, maybe even with leftovers. I will then inhale them before I even reach the motorway, and feel slightly sick for the rest of the drive.
Well heck. My hairdresser is sick today so no hairdo for me today. Now to try to find a time to reschedule as she is going out of town on Moanday. I really need my hairs done.
Well, now there is no excuse for not mopping the floor. I already vacuumed it. Mopping is back breaking to me.
I am surprised to find that train travel is more expensive than flying.
I don’t trust GPS, or Onstar, or any of the systems.
They have driven me in circles and got me lost.
If I’m going somewhere I don’t know, I use google directions before I go and write the directions down, in my style which is quick and easy to read.
If you use GPS coming to my house you will surely get lost because it will send you to other road with the same name as my road.
Then I have to try to get you over to my road using landmarks like’ the yellow house with the purple shutters’ and ‘the Amish shed lot’.
I watch a lot of videos when I am irking.
Yesterday I watched one on training shar pei. The trainer uses treats and said she keep the sessions short because the dog will get bored, but also because the dog will start to get full and lose interest.
Really?! The concept of a dog getting full, especially on treats, does not compute.
Then another video of a woman cleaning out her shoes.
Who has so many shoes?!
She went through her boots first and finally pared them down to 10 pairs.
She still had her shoes, slippers, and sandals to go through.
Another pared her coats down to 10 coats.
That is not including jackets and blazers.
Just coats.
She had some very pretty coats, but damn, I wouldn’t even know where to put 10 coats.
Besides that, if I had that many coats, deciding which one to wear would make me crazy.
I’m one of those people who does a whole lot better with fewer choices.
I always think I have too much stuff.
Apparently I don’t.
I don’t think I own 10 pairs of shoes in total, and that counts my one pair of snow boots. I have one coat - mostly I wear hoodies (I have 3.) And I have one purse. Keepin’ it simple!
Good on ya, Butters!! I can’t believe it’s been 10 months already!
Just finished updating a couple of models and it’s really too late to do much else. Maybe I can find a little 15 minute task to finish my day. It’s been a Moanday for sure!
I love visiting other places. I hate traveling. The exception being on my motorcycle of course.
Snacks and drinks are pretty much anything that doesn’t have sugar because sometimes after I ingest sugar my pancreas goes into hulk mode and my blood sugar bottoms out and I take a 30 minute power nap. Not ideal when driving.
