Secrets To An Effortless Family Road Trip
Posted by Shannon M. on Tuesday, March 6th, 2012
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Few things are more American than the family road trip. When I was a kid, my summer was often punctuated by my family’s annual California vacation to see the grandparents. Every July, my mom and dad packed up their station wagon with suitcases, toys, coolers, and kids and we headed out west. Times seemed simpler then – there were no iPods or Gameboys – and, often times, my sister and I were left to our own devices in the back seat. This basically means that my parents endured hours upon hours of maniacal laughter turned whining when one gave the other a cross look or dared to breach the invisible barrier of “my side.” Try as my parents did (and, for the record, they did a darn good job), they definitely could have benefited from a few of these “secrets.”
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