We were camping in Escalante Staircase in Utah and each morning we’d choose what we felt like doing that day. When have you last been in a situation that you could plan your day around how you felt that morning?
We drive all over our country to camp and explore new places and to visit family and friends. We’ve found traveling by car to be a luxurious way to go.
We purposely bought a car that provides us with comfortably engineered seats with plenty of room for our stuff and sometimes our dog. Our car becomes our home on the road and our private travel pod. Choosing a car just right for your needs is step one!
We have a Subaru Ascent and a Toyota Rav4 and both cars suit our needs really well in size, space, comfort, reliability, and on and off road capabilities. Make a list of your travel requirements and choose a car that meets them.
When on the road, if you are fortunate enough to have two drivers, then make the most of that and trade driving every 2 or 3 hours. Suddenly, you will have traveled 600 miles after only 2, 2 hour stints each!
We travel with a cooler and food plan so we don’t have to eat at places unless they support the food we choose. This also frees us to stop and stretch and eat whenever we feel like it and not only when we happen to be passing through a town with services.
The whole advantage of driving yourself someplace is freedom! You can arrange to have your choice in timing, what to bring, when to stop, when to eat and where you’re going- that’s a lot of freedom that sets you up for a lot of fun.
We were visiting my mom in the Chicago area and learned a cousin was coming to visit on the day we had planned to leave. It was simple to stay another day and visit with her too.
We were camping in Escalante Staircase in Utah and each morning we’d choose what we felt like doing that day. When have you last been in a situation that you could plan your day around how you felt that morning?
Driving is fun. Listening to books and music, singing along out loud, the euphoria of speeding along on a gorgeous road next to someone you love are all enticements for this mode of traveling.
It hardly makes any difference if someone has a disease or disability and that is a nice break too.
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