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Long car rides require hella good rock music, and great snacks. I'd like to see murals along the road, or wild flowers, fenced animals, anything to break up the monotony of the drive. With the right tunes on, snacks to munch on, and scenery the long drives are not too bad.
I'm headed from Wyoming to L.A. coming up with is a fifteen hour drive before stops. Not looking forward to it, but it's gotta be done. Oh yeah I also like to find interesting things to see or do along the way. So I incorporate them into our trip, like seeing a national monument we did Dinosaur in Utah, and Fossil Butte in Wyoming our last long trip. It gives you something to look forward to on the way to or from your main destination.
Well how about getting out and taking pictures and taking bathroom breaks . I grew up with a dad who did not like to stop and let us use the bathroom . I could not ride with him today if he were still alive , he hated long drives and he also would not stop to let us go . I hated that . so yeah getting out and taking pictures having snacks and drinks and good music .
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Long and boring... (I know a bit about that as a 30+ yr CDL driver...)
Drive at night,
enjoy hot springs / pools / rivers / naps under the trees by day
books on tape,
Lining up animal crackers on the dash and trying to identify them by moonlight.
Blizzards also help keep you entertained!
Math (doing math from road markers)
inventing stuff (some of my favorite inventions were born in the middle of the night, in the middle of WY / ND / KS / NE...)
Cooking on your engine is a nice hobby too.
Bathroom breaks are pretty rare, Even my car can run 1200+ miles (20 hrs) between fills (Evil VW)
My truck ... MUCH farther
I make a point to get off the highway and see what's out there in the "outback"...like the world's largest hand-dug well in Greensburg KS or Pawnee Rock "the greatest sight ever beheld by man" if you were driving an ox team on the Santa Fe Trail.
You can always compose Haiku in your head based on what you see...
Texas panhandle I-40:
Abundant cow pies
Land of sun baked bovine art;
Welcome to Texas
I like to "Guess that Crop" in farm country. But without an "app for that" how can we know for sure?
I miss the old "Burma Shave" signs. And the "billboards" using old semi-trailers, advertising the "Corn Palace" or some such....
We were driving for about two thousand miles through Iowa (Iowa miles are 5-10 times longer than miles anywhere else in the country, except for most of the state of Texas) and, of course, we're driving through corn fields. Luckily, for a long stretch, there were signs educating you on the type of corn being grown in that particular field. This kind of corn and that kind of corn and LOOK! there's another kind of corn. Y'know what? IT ALL LOOKED LIKE CORN! Boring, boring, boring corn. There's only so enthusiastic you can be about corn.
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