My husband and I had to laugh at our friends and how the do road trips. Let's just say they are different than us.
AJU1 and I both grew up taking long road trips. We learned to get in the car and go. We don't stop for long meals. We try to minimize our stops by getting food and gas at the same exit (if not same parking lot). We rarely have to make extra potty stops (well, before we had a potty trained child). So, if the GPS says we will be there in 10 hours, we will be there in about 10 hours. We make up for our few stops with our driving about 5 miles per hour over the speed limit.
Our friends are different. They stopped and had a 2 hour dinner before leaving town because they tried to leave at rush hour. Then, they stopped on the other side of our town for breakfast - which lasted an hour. Now, they claim they didn't want to wake us (because it was 6am) and they were hungry. But if it would have been us we would have either just went to and grab and go place or texted/called (and as you may know, we don't sleep past 6 because our kids don't let us). On their way home, they planned to stop again for at least an hour for lunch.
How do you travel? Do you rush to your destination or make lots of stops?
We know our next trip will be a little different with AJU5 potty trained, but we still are going to conserve stops as best as possible. And maybe when the kids are school-aged we will start stopping at landmarks along the way (when they can appreciate them)...
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It depends on the trip for us. If we're going to my parents' house (4 hour trip), we stop once for a diaper/bathroom break and always at the same gas station. Otherwise, we play it by ear.
It depends for us, as well. If we are making a 4-hour trip to see relatives, we usually only stop once, if everyone is awake and restless/have to use the restroom.
If we are making a large multi-day trip, I like to travel for 4-6 hour spurts, with a longer meal at a sit-down restaurant for a break once a day...and a trip to the hotel pool any time we have a stay-over.
We try to go, go, go! Once we stop once, we end up stopping a bajillion times.
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