Road Trips

     Road trips can be either the most boring thing or a super fun and relaxing family bonding experience. Mostly it depends on your relationship with your family, bu there are ways to make almost any road trip fun. The only thing that you have to do to have a great road trip is be prepared and have fun.
     Firstly you should plan on bringing your own entertainment. Books are always a good choice because if they aren't that interesting they could make you go to sleep which sucks up a good chunk of the road trip time. For those that don't find books entertaining try bringing a portable gaming system, or if those are not available bring some paper. Once you have paper you can either perfect your in car writing and try to do something productive like study notes, homework, or writing a book, or you can try to draw interesting scenery as it passes by.
     Planning group activities that everyone in the car can have fun with is a cool way to make your trip more interesting. For the musical family turn on a favourite song, but put the volume low so your family can belt it out. Try rounds or songs with a lot of harmonies so everyone has a part, and even the driver can participate in this one. Magnetic board games are also a good idea. The pieces don't get lost to often and board games can be super fun. Also try making a list of things you may find on your trip and get everyone to find the items on the list like a scavenger hunt. While driving through cities find every letter of the alphabet on signs in order. If you want to involve everyone in the car but you can't think of any activities just talk. Get to know each other better maybe even play would you rather which is where you give someone two scenarios and ask them which they would rather be in.
       Fun is not the only thing that should be planned. There are many opportunities for a road trip to go wrong, but most of them can be ignored with ear plugs. Okay, ear plugs can seem rude, and maybe a bit harsh, but sometimes blocking out sound can be the only way to escape a road trip gone wrong. Road trips can be long and if your music taste differs from the driver some excruciatingly long songs can be downright painful. A poem I wrote about this can be found under the business section. The best way to avoid this scenario is to bring music of your own. Remember to bring headphones for your music, because I'm sure your family doesn't want to compete with you for music volume.
        Be prepared to have fun, but remember to be respectful as well. All bad road trips are started by someone try not to be the problem.

Business

I'm eight posts behind and I will not be writing a post on Thursday.

Road Trip Poem

Fifteen minute song

Without any vocals

Still my dad insists

It's okay they're local

I ask my father

His bad music's blaring

How long's this C.D

Now my dad is glaring

An hour's finally past

I think we might be through

But underneath the seat

Is disc number two

Just seven hours left

There still may be hope

But he pulls out a C.D case

Now I begin to mope

I feel like screaming

We're at the final hour

Still he's the driver

So, he has the power

We reached our destination

I let out a groan

Next trip we're going in on

The music will be my own.