A Date for Your Road Trip
Do any of you have a ROAD TRIP coming up in the near future? I have the perfect date idea for you! My husband & I recently traveled a tooooonnnnnn. Each summer, we travel to a new location for an internship for him. This past summer, we relocated to gorgeous Northern Cali for three blissful months – from HOT Vegas. Lots of time on the road! With SO much quality time together, I thought this would be the perfect time to throw together an “on the fly” date!
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My FIRST “turn to” when I am searching for something is GOOGLE!! *sigh* I can pretty much find just about anything I need on there! (Pinterest is a CLOSE second. WINK!) I was on a mission to find some FUN ideas that Jamie & I could do while sitting in a car. I almost started jumping up and down when I saw THIS printable {and super affordable} ebook! JUST what I was looking for!!!
Over 140 downloadable and FUN games for the road! Bingo, word searches, mazes, scavenger hunts, and I fell in LOVE with their “Secret Mission” printables. So cute! This would be perfect to use as a family when traveling as well… in fact this whole DATE could be an entire family experience. 🙂
I immediately purchased the ebook… and printed off the games I wanted to play with my cute hubby. We were looking at being in the car for TWELVE hours straight, so I wanted to make sure we had plenty to choose from. 🙂 If you want to go paperless you can download the eBook from Amazon {for FREE!}. While prepping I thought that MAD LIBS would be the perfect road trip game as well.
I then set to work & created all of these FUN “Road Trip Survival Kit” printables to go along with my theme.
I made treat toppers to fit the top of a gallon-sized baggie AND a sandwich-sized baggie. One gallon bag I filled with Jamie’s FAVORITE treat: homemade cheesy popcorn! Another gallon baggie included all of the fun games & printables we would be doing, and the last baggie included other yummy assorted treats, including chocolate {which is MY favorite}. I then created a fun little countdown, grabbed a long ribbon & some clothespins, & mapped out our trip. I wrote down stopping points on the cards – which we would take off the ribbon as we hit/passed through each location.
This awesome printable pack includes:
- Small “Road Trip” Treat Topper
- Large “Road Trip” Treat Topper
- “Road Trip” Countdown
- License Plate Game
- “Road Trip” Questionnaire
This countdown was rather fun! I was definitely glad to see our progress when we went through areas like this….
Um, yeah. And this was SUMMER! We actually slid off the road at one point! It was so scary. Luckily neither one of us were hurt, but I think I had a mini-heart attack! 🙂
Overall, our trip was enjoyable. (Minus sliding off the road…) We had a lot of fun talking, laughing, playing games, eating yummy treats, and holding hands… er… I mean, of COURSE we didn’t do that! The driver always had hands on the wheel at the ten & two positions. 🙂
Originally we printed two copies of the “License Plate” Game for our trip, however it’s not really realistic (or safe) to have the DRIVER cross things off, so we combined efforts and just filled out one sheet. I couldn’t believe how many different states we saw! We scored with the big semi trucks. They were from everywhere!
The questionnaire was a lot of fun for us. (This would go perfectly with Lisa’s “Post-It” notes date)! I came up with 50 questions, but we only made it through half! 🙂 We laughed when we BOTH said our least favorite household chore was to clean out the litter box. Ugh!
I would definitely recommend this “Road Trip” date for ANYONE traveling in a car for a long period of time. You could do most of these activities as a couple, or as a family, especially if you purchase the awesome road trip games book I found! 🙂 It totally eliminates the question, “Are we there yet?”
Soooooo… do you have any fun road trips coming up?
Oh, I SO wish I had these ideas 2 weeks ago! I will definitely use them another time though! 🙂
Oh man, I wish I had this date years ago! Would have made some of those longer trips no so dull! lol! But we’ve got another trip in a month that I am super excited about. I’ve already printed everything out and I’m ready to get rollin’! Thanks for this awesome idea! For surely I will never have a dull trip again!
Wow, what perfect timing this is. My husband and I are leaving this Saturday taking our family on a cruise. The drive from home to the port is about 8 hours so I’m excited to receive this just in time!
Thank you so much and I’ll be passing this, along with many of your other fabulous date ideas to my readers as well.
Tara where were you? That looks like the Sonoma/Mendocino coast in that last shot. Great idea for a date and glad to see the shout out to my neck of the woods 🙂
Hey Barbara! I believe that was around the Reno, NV area….?? Crazy, huh! It was SUMMER! Who knew it had weather like that when just a hop-skip-jump away, Vegas is BURNING hot! 🙂
Great job putting this together Tara! I’m so excited to print some of these things off…It seems we are in the car all the time and could put this to good use!
This is awesome! We are preparing to move from Charleston, South Carolina to a small town above Albany, New York in October and this should make our trip a bit smoother. It will be my husband, myself, and our three year old son! We had a very long road trip last year when we moved from California to South Carolina.. this would have made the trip so much better! Thanks again!
We just moved across the country. Wish I would have had this! I’ll have to keep it in mind for future moves!
oh my heavens! i am DEFINITELY bookmarking this post for our next trip from Oklahoma to Utah. LOVE ALL OF THESE IDEAS!! thank you so so much!
Thank you so much for posting this! I love it! We are planning a family trip during the Christmas break this year and I have always thought how fun it would be to have road trip things to do and now I have them. :0)
Wish I had this when we moved last year and drove 2500 miles across the country in a moving truck!! Thanks for sharing this great idea!