Originally Posted By GrumpysWife >>Also gotta mention our infamous 25 hour tours we've been doing lately to DL - those have been so much fun, really good times. Yakking for 4.5 hours on the way down and singing on the way back<< OK, I'm so jealous - I'd be doing a DL roadtrip every weekend if I only lived 4.5 hours away!!!
Originally Posted By GrumpysWife But to stay on topic-one of my favorite road trips was when we drove from SLC to Vancouver (with the help of a ferry, haha), with 7 of us in a Suburban (with a week's worth of luggage for 7 adults too) We were like a circus car, when we'd park and all start climbing out it was pretty amusing. But it was sure some fun, with such beautiful country as a backdrop.
Originally Posted By TALL Disney Guy <>>TDG-I went to Lorrie Morgan's private and public Fan Club parties and got to sing a parody of one of my songs.<< Lemmie guess the song was "Standing Tall"? Get any dirt on Troy Aikman and does she miss Keith Whitley like I do?> Lol, nah I took her signature song "Something In Red" and made it one about food: "Something In Bread". My favorite memory of that trip is her comin' on stage laughin' and givin' me a big hug afterward (and her sister and aunt tellin' me after the party I shoulda won 1st place instead of 2nd cause 1st place guy didn't play fair was a nice rub on my ego, lol).
Originally Posted By TALL Disney Guy (and didn't get to ask her 'bout Troy or Keith, but I've read about 'em in her book)
Originally Posted By AZDLDad Obviously the shy, introverted type you are! Sounds like a lot of fun. I worked at a C&W wear store with one of Lorrie's road managers after he left the biz.
Originally Posted By MissCandice I have taken many a road trip. My mom and I took one at the beginning of May to Port Angeles and the Olympic National Park. Here are the pictures (there are ducks!): <a href="http://misscandice.peeaanuut.com/" target="_blank">http://misscandice.peeaanuut.c om/</a> If that doesn't take you to the album directly, you should be able to spot the album.
Originally Posted By MissCandice Ok, it doesn't take you directly there. The album is the last one on the page.
Originally Posted By beamerdog Road trips that were memorable: From DE to Bay of Fundy in New Brunswick, Canada. Would definitely do that one again. From DE to WDW - many times. Love that one!! From Las Vegas to the Grand Canyon with my SIL in November. Stopped in all the little towns, took some side roads, had a blast!
Originally Posted By SuzieQ We did that drive in November, too! We were at the El Tovar on the south rim the last week of Nov. What a drive, huh? We left DS home with the grandparents, and I took pictures of the vast nothingness on that highway to show him what he missed, LOL! The Canyon was worth every boring brown hill!
Originally Posted By hopemax I took many road trips growing up. My parents families were in the midwest (Milwaukee, No. Ill) and we were in Washington state and we would visit them every 5 years. We did that trip on all possible E/W Interstate routes, except I-40 and I-10, and we did it on Hwy 1 in Canada once. My aunt lived in Idaho, so we would visit them all the time, and sometimes do family trips to Newport, Or. WA to DL several times. DH and I drove from WA, to the National parks in Utah, Arizona. And last year, my parents moved to Orlando, so to help them...I met my Dad at DL, drove up to Washington straight thru. There for 2 weeks, flew home, home for 3 weeks, drove to Denver with DH (from Phoenix), home for month, flew to Seattle, packed 3 moving trucks, drove with Dad and cat from WA to Orlando. Roadtripping is fun.
Originally Posted By irishfan Back in 2002 a some friends and I drove from L.A to New York, now that was some road trip! Cant remember exact details, but we places we saw were San Fran, Yeosimite, Lake Tahoe, Salt Lake City, Jackson Hole, Yellow Stone, Badlands..hmmmm, Mt Rushmore, Chicago...Niagara, and NYC.
Originally Posted By iluvdisneyland I took a RoadTrip into custody in the Play Pen section just a few minutes ago!
Originally Posted By TALL Disney Guy I stopped into Barnes & Noble before work this evenin' and saw a book on a Father's Day gift table: "The Great American Road Trip". Unfortunately there was no pic of our beloved LPer on the front...
Originally Posted By Mrs 2oon When I was a kid we didn't take many road trips at all. My mom was single with three of us and I certainly can't blame her for not wanting to handle us on the road herself for long periods of time. Well, maybe she could handle me, but my sister and brother are another story.... In the 20 years that 2oony and I have been married we have taken so many trips.....mostly down highway 5 to San Diego and Disneyland. In the past 18 months or so I have made several road trips to Fernley, NV to visit my sister. All of our road trips start out with a clean car and drinks and munchies packed. The 2oonlets decide who sits in the back of the van and who sits in the middle. They get together pillows, blankets, magazines, game boys...whatever. Then...the fun begins. We can usually make it to Livermore before someone says..."I have to go to the bathroom." We usually make several of these stops. Somehow these stops always involve spending money at the mini-mart at the gas stations. The kids always find something that they just HAVE to have. I like to get a map and keep up with where we are going. Jeff keeps checking with me to see if we made it to the fold in the map yet. These trips are by far some of my best memories of family time. We talk about what we are going to do when we get to our destination and the excitement just builds. If we are going to Disneyland we usually make it in about 7-8 hours. Hopefully we will keep up these road trips for a long time with children and grandchildren.
Originally Posted By Mrs 2oon I forgot to mention that these trips usually end with a very, VERY messy van filled with all kinds of snack trash and various pieces of clothing throughout the van. It's always off to the carwash after a road trip.
Originally Posted By GrumpysWife Yup, that's the BEST part of road trips. The bonding. You can bond with your kids more on one trip than months of at-home interaction...
Originally Posted By Mrs 2oon I agree, GrumpysWife. There are three places that you get the best information from your kids. 1..on a long road trip, 2...the van ride home from junior high, 3....at the dinner table every night. Kids seem to be more talkative during these times. Of course, 2oonlet1 usually tries to start up some type of controversial political conversation at the same time. 2oony's mom calls this "payback."
Originally Posted By chickendumpling These are all just great, guys and I am totally enjoying reading them. One of the best road trips I ever had was driving up here to live. We drove straight through (about 1000 miles) in the dead of night. It was summer, no air conditioning in the car so windows down, shorts on, feet on the dash or hanging out the window. LOL. We had everything we owned stuffed in a teeny u-haul, our car, and bils car had a mattress strapped to the top. LOL. Like the Beverly Hillbillies or somethin. But best of all was that there were no cars around at all. We had the world to ourselves... and there were beautiful thunderstorms off in the distance - far enough away that we didn't get any of the rain, just all of the beauty. *sighs*
