As airplane tickets continue to rise in costs, with customs becoming stricter, families are deciding to go on vacation via car to save on money. Most of us with young children are returning to the days we grew up in where we traveled most places by car with our parents.
Here's ten tips to help your car vacation go a lot easier:
Ask your children whether they would prefer to travel in the daytime or in the evening. Which ever it is plan your travel to match, for this us our kids don't travel well in the morning they do much better if we leave after 2:00pm and travel into the evening.
If you have small children, then bring their favorite coloring books or games with them, with enough crayons and colored pencils, and if you have older kids or teens, then an iPod or travel journal would do - bring enough snacks for everybody to enjoy.
Take along Gameboys & games, personal CD/cassette players (even for little kids), and you can get books on tape from the library.
Do consider a portable DVD player, this makes 5 or 6 hour a day seem like 2 hours. Since your kids will be so focused on the cartoon they're watching, they'll spend less time pestering you to stop over for something.
Instead of carrying a suitcase per person and going on nightly stops, maybe you can try this instead. Pack a 3 day bag into which each person contributes 3 days worth of clothes. This way you take one suitcase of clothes in every three days.
Do pack a lightweight table cloth for outdoor lunch stops along the way.
Be sure to take the digital camera you'll create lifetime memories.
Do get postcards from every major destination along the way.
All kids are different but in general don't drive as far as the adults can go in one day, try to keep car travel to a 6 to 8 hour range of time.
Last, but not the least, avoid filling up your car with all your personal belongings and leaving your kids with precious little space - consider buying a car topper instead.
Here's ten tips to help your car vacation go a lot easier:
Ask your children whether they would prefer to travel in the daytime or in the evening. Which ever it is plan your travel to match, for this us our kids don't travel well in the morning they do much better if we leave after 2:00pm and travel into the evening.
If you have small children, then bring their favorite coloring books or games with them, with enough crayons and colored pencils, and if you have older kids or teens, then an iPod or travel journal would do - bring enough snacks for everybody to enjoy.
Take along Gameboys & games, personal CD/cassette players (even for little kids), and you can get books on tape from the library.
Do consider a portable DVD player, this makes 5 or 6 hour a day seem like 2 hours. Since your kids will be so focused on the cartoon they're watching, they'll spend less time pestering you to stop over for something.
Instead of carrying a suitcase per person and going on nightly stops, maybe you can try this instead. Pack a 3 day bag into which each person contributes 3 days worth of clothes. This way you take one suitcase of clothes in every three days.
Do pack a lightweight table cloth for outdoor lunch stops along the way.
Be sure to take the digital camera you'll create lifetime memories.
Do get postcards from every major destination along the way.
All kids are different but in general don't drive as far as the adults can go in one day, try to keep car travel to a 6 to 8 hour range of time.
Last, but not the least, avoid filling up your car with all your personal belongings and leaving your kids with precious little space - consider buying a car topper instead.
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