Road Trips

Returning to the real world can be slightly jarring after spending a week in a most beautiful land with amazing peeps, delicious food and all the water sports/land exploration a person can manage. I'll have to share pics later once I get copies from the bf but let's just say I'm now a semi-pro wake boarder, archaeologist, jet skier and boat chef.

I've also become an expert road trip entertainer. Since it was a twelve hour drive from the LA to Bullfrog something or other where the boat departed that was twenty-four hours the bf and I had to fill in his smaller silver Scion. Oh, and since it's a manual vehicle and I don't really know how to drive one I wasn't a whole lot of help in that area. Some might call that a recipe for disaster. I think it actually made us closer cuz hey, if you can spend that much time together in an enclosed space essentially doing nothing and still come out enjoying one another bonus points. And I think we actually came out of the entire week enjoying one another more making us the coolest couple ever. Our road trip was spent hopping out of the car for various photo ops. Besides all the pics of us by the neverending massive rock formations we posed with the Sinclair gas station dinosaur (our Utah pet).

This isn't our pet dinosaur. Must be a cousin or somethin'.

In addition to taking pics we did the normal car ride things like listening to a lot of music (dance partying it up to some country music, which neither of us typically listens to) and chatted. We also spent a lot of time engaged in mass quantities of silliness that can only be attributed to lack of sleep (or not). We even invented some new animals out of ones that already existed. Lihorserus anyone?

It was especially important to keep our spirits up at one point on the way there when we wandered into Capital Reef National Park. We turned before we should have and didn't see a single person for a couple hours nor did we have cellular signals to reach the experts. At one point we pondered if we were even in Utah anymore. Perhaps against our better judgement we powered on and ended up where we needed to be with amazing views and memories. I wasn't too bothered by the whole detour since I think part of any kind of trip are the random adventures that pop up.

Here are some other suggestions for road tripping entertainment to keep you from dumping the ones you love at the rest area:
- Games such as "I Spy" and the "License Plate Game" dominated my childhood road trips.
- "Spin the Dial" radio game. Set the radio to seek and see if you can guess the song and artist before the station changes.
- Crossword and math puzzles.
- Mad Libs. Bring some or make up your own.
- Make large signs to flash at passing cars.

What do you do on road trips?