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Motoring. What's your price for flight?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9i5VBrCvCNII am going on a road trip to my brother's house in Virginia in a few hours. What are some things I can do to not want to kill myself (I am a passenger, not the driver)? Are there good android games (already have hearthstone on my phone but that takes up hella battery).
Also, what are some of your road stories? What do you guys always need to have when you travel? What is your price for flight?
I should mention that I'm traveling with my family so nothing too raunchy, you rascals.
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Unfortunately, the one that got put in for the longest leg of the journey was John Steinbeck's "The Pearl". And by the time we realized how much we all hated it, we were all committed to finishing it just out of morbid curiosity.
I do not recommend listening to that book, over several hundred miles of the Western US, in the dark. Or really under any circumstances. Or any other Steinbeck novel, unless it's for purely academic purposes. What a hateful, horrible, miserable story. What a torturous build-up, just to have everything go to crap anyway in the end. By the time we got to the wedding, we were all unified in our disgruntlement, ready to burn down the whole shitty earth for its numerous offenses. We were grouchy enough that my grandma dragged us all aside individually to lecture us about our attitudes, and how, as the three oldest kids, we needed to set a better example. But then she segued into the "why aren't YOU married yet" lecture, and rather than snap at her I spent the rest of the Texas adventure stewing in my hotel room, fighting with the complimentary wifi and cursing at it loud enough that the people in the room next door complained to management.
So. Audio Books. Good for keeping you awake, at least.
When I took my Electric Motors class, Sister Christian was the bane of my existence.
When I took a two-day trip from Victoria to Calgary this summer, though, I thought I'd mix it up and listen to podcasts instead. It was pretty fun! I would alternate between hour-long podcast episodes, an album, back to podcasts, and so on. It kept it varied and the trip was really nice.
I haven't been a passenger on a road trip for a while though, and really, the only difference in my habits then was that I wasn't driving. I liked looking out the window and listening to music. Maybe even nap a bit!
I have many road stories from driving Austin -> Boston without stopping! It is insanity and I don't recommend ever doing it. One time I stopped for breakfast after driving all night, and found in my pocket a) less money, and b) receipt from a meal I'd had the night before and did not remember.
One time I pulled over to sleep because I was too shattered to go on, and woke up an hour farther down the road than I was when I'd stopped, pulled over in front of my exit. No idea how I got there.
Once I had a leaf stuck on my windshield wiper, but I didn't want to stop so I turned on the wiper and reached out to grab the leaf while still driving 70 down the highway. Caught the whole wiper instead, which promptly broke off and blew away. Few minutes later, it started raining... I was in rural Virginia at 6:30 on a Sunday evening. Desperately drove around the next town I saw an exit for, banged on the door of a NAPA auto parts and some guy took pity on me and sold me a wiper so I could continue.
That same trip, coming back, I was caught with one headlight in a torrential rainstorm in the mountains in Pennsylvania near Scranton I think, and was nearly blown off the road by an 18-wheeler because he was going 60 and I couldn't see 10ft in front of me so I was going like 25. I thought I was going to drive off a cliff that night.
My price for flight is around $400 now.
Need some stuff designed or printed? I can help with that.
got through almost half of aDWD in a 12 hour drive
Sleep.
Trust me its like time travel
I can't sleep in the car, especially when it's with my parents. Wish I took the train.
Multitap USB -> car lighter adapters and cables long enough to reach everyone's devices are a must have.
You Must Build A Boat is available on Android. It's a great matching/dungeoncrawl game.
bam, done