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 came across this AMAZING list of 30 of the Best Road Trip Games.
While browsing through it, I also thought that MAD LIBS would be the perfect road trip game as well. Even this Mad Libs on the Road edition looked SUPER cute!
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?
I am so excited!! Our family is going on a road trip this weekend and I am so bringing these printouts!! I’m going to print 2 of the questionnaires so we can all answer, & 2 of the license plate game sheets- maybe we’ll play adults against kids or boys against girls- who knows?? I’m bummed the link to the ebook didn’t work 😕 Also, I have to ask- what month & year was this with the snow? I ask because I live in No Cal about an hour & a half or 2 hours away from Reno & in 2011 my son’s birthday party got SNOWED OUT in May!!! It rarely snows there at all!! So I’m wondering if you were driving through the same storm? Such crazy weather that year!
Oh man! So sorry the link isn’t working. That book was AMAZING! We’ll have to see if we can find something similar to link up. And gosh… I don’t know if I remember the exact year! lol But goodness, I wouldn’t be surprised if we WERE in the same storm! HA! So glad we were both safe!
Love this!! I can use this in my lassroom and on family trips. My 21 year olds will think a hoot. (twins) Especially with the snacks. (& boys)
Thank you so much! I’m going to use them in my English class for adults – conversation questions and the license plate game – when we talk about going on vacation.
Oh FUN! I’m so glad you like them! XOXO