Why I like the road trips.

Why I like the road trips.

Driving usually means I am on my way to work, or coming home from work, or having to go to Home Depot to fix something at my house.

So, if driving is something so synonymous with tedious tasks–why do I roadtrip? Is roadtrip even a verb?

Well, a little background.

I like my car. I like to take pictures. I especially like good company. I also like listening to music. Combine them all, and you get a road trip.

Plus, for tech geek’s, a road trip is an excellent way to apply one’s toys.

For trips, these are the several cool toys I have used (on here whether or not they are electrical or not)

  • Socketcom Bluetooth GPS
  • Dell Axim x50v Pocket PC PDA
  • Sony Ericsson EDGE Card
  • Alpine IVA-D300 multimedia headunit (and the rest of the car stereo accouterments)
  • Sony Playstation 2
  • Q-Grille
  • Laptop with Windows Media Center 2005 (for watching the shows from home, just while on the road)
  • 5 day cooler
  • Lots of cameras
  • 4 person tent

Add some flashlights, a lantern, a AAA card, and some good tunes, and you’ve got the ingredients for a cool tech road trip.

For me, leaving my home by car to discover a new place is really fun. Plus, camping is cheap and split gas among passengers and it’s cheaper than flying. Plus, you can’t take pictures in a plane.

November 28, 2006
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2 comments

You like roadtrips for a lot of reasons, but one you didn’t mention is that it’s an opportunity to use your everyday, mundane object (your car) in a way that escapes the mundane in the most unordinary way. That’s always a recipe for success. :)

I would enjoy roadtrips a lot more, too, if I weren’t in Southern California. When I was back in the lower Midwest/upper South, I used to enjoy going places all the time.

Tue, 11/28/06 :: 9:22 PM
by Billifer

That’s a good way of saying it. Being in southern California, however, shouldn’t be a detriment to road trips. Instead of heading north (LA, Barstow, etc), you just head east. You know one hour east of us is the Cleveland National Forest and snow at Mount Laguna. Plus, cool looking rock mountains.

Wed, 11/29/06 :: 12:12 PM
by spencer

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