My family recently made a three-day road trip from one end of the country to the other. Stopping for meals, sightseeing and hotels each night still makes for very long days.
I don’t know if you’re aware of this, but all the moms out there somehow got nominated “Road Trip Queens”. That means, you pack everything, you’re supposed to know where everything is at all times, and you hand things to people in the car when they need them. It’s a very important job.
I love being the queen of the road, but it does make reading more than three pages of my book at a time without getting interrupted next to impossible. Just when I get to a good part I hear “Mom, I’m hungry. Do you have any snacks?”
You open up your stash and rummage through everything looking for some fruit snacks and by the time you pass them back and pick up your book again you hear “Mom, I’m bored. Do you have anything I can do?”
Sound familiar?
I thought so.
I’ve got a traveling tip I think you’ll love.
I like to pack all the things my kids will need for a road trip in a heavy duty, clear bin with a lid. You can get them on the home storage or office supply aisle at any major box store for under $6.
You fill this bin with all the items your kids will need such as: fruit snacks, a deck of cards, sunscreen, granola bars, gum, a United States Atlas (National Geographic Kids makes a great one), hand wipes for sticky fingers, Band-Aids, electronic game systems, headphones and anything else you can get in there. I like to add Kleenex, motion sickness pills (my daughter gets car sick), and a note pad with a pencil so my kids can keep track of the things they’ve seen along the way and a couple plastic trash bags-just in case.
This bin fits between two kids with lots of room to spare in the back seat of any car. Or, if you want to keep an eye on how many fruit snacks your kids eat, you can keep the bin up front with you and still have plenty of legroom.
Are you going on any road trips with your family this summer?
Do you have any traveling tips you’d like to share?
What’s the longest road trip you’ve been on?
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