They can sit in the car for hours, content to watch the countryside as they roll down the highway.
Others take books so they don't have to pay attention to the highway at all.
And still others, sleep. (This option is not really available for the co-pilot in our family because we still rely on good old maps and map-reading skills)
But then there are the ones who don't travel well.
Bless their little hearts.
They are the ones who ask, after just one hour on the road "How much longer until we get there?" And then just twenty minutes later they ask "When are we having lunch?" quickly followed up by "Where are we stopping for lunch?" even though they just had breakfast two hours ago.
They are the ones who say to you "I don't have to go" when you are in the nice clean gas station/fast food restaurant combo but then just five miles down the road will have an emergency and need to go, requiring you to stop at the first gas station you encounter. Yes, this will be the gas station that has water all over the floor, no toilet paper in the stall and/or the light in your bathroom will be out. But as Rudy Huxtable once said "Little kids can't always know when they'll have to go." (Or something like that, I'm working off of memory here.)
I guess it takes all kinds and for sure, my family got a little of all of these kinds. Luckily we have one that drives everywhere we go. Fearless about driving in unknown lands--definitely the most important type to take on your road trip.
When we were kids, Willie Nelson sang the anthem of every single road trip we took :-)
On the Road Again
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