Good intentions! That's what I have for this blog. However....good intentions get you nowhere. When I dreamed (dreamt?) this up, I fully anticipated for this blog to be the best family road trip blog on the whole internet, but now I'm just settling for it to merely BE a family road trip blog on the internet (as opposed to a family road trip blog that exists only in my mind.)
That said.....I'm going to try to start firing off some posts. Here goes my lame attempt at getting something up in the 15 minutes I have before we leave for karate.
Here are a few of the things I'm leary of as we embark on this 5000 mile trip:
1. Running out of gas in the middle of Kansas in the middle of the night.
2. The minivan we're taking currently has 147,000 miles on it
3. We're camping (as in, a tent, not a camper....as in, outside, not in a hotel.....), therefore, rain could put a bit of a damper on the fun for this camper.
4. Gas is expensive (that is, if we can find any in the middle of Kansas--see #1 above.)
5. We're going to try to pack LIGHT. I'm concerned we'll end up packing a little too light. What if we're in the middle of Kansas and we need something....like, really bad. And we've run out of gas (see #1 and #4) and there's no place to get gas or my favorite road trip snack (Junior Mints)!
6. What if somebody gets sick ?? (Daughter has had 4 stomach bugs since Christmas. People: FOUR STOMACH BUGS SINCE CHRISTMAS!! Can you even fathom how ridiculously terrible it would be to have that happen in the middle of Kansas in the middle of the night?)
7. Car trouble....car wreck....etc. And you know....if we had to leave the van in the middle of Kansas, the only rental car available will be a Ford Escort, right?
8. I've heard that there are bears in the Rocky Mountains. 'Nuff said.
9. We have Verizon 3G service. 'Nuff said. (Can you hear me now? I'm in the middle of Kansas.)
10. One of the kids will forget their headphones and we'll have to listen to the KidzBop version of "Like We're Gonna Die Young" over....and over....and over again.
So, that's what's on my "be afraid, be very afraid" list at this point.
What would you be afraid of if you were joining us on L'WOW?
#1 would definitely be on my list too.
ReplyDelete#2. Being kidnapped while camping by some crazy outdoor survivalist type (thank you dateline and lifetime movies for putting that fear in my head)
#3. Getting lost with only a bottle of water and a pop tart to survive on ( thanks again dateline/lifetime)
Rhonda! Yes!!! Add those to my list. The last thing I want to do is become the inspiration for a lifetime movie about a family trip gone horribly wrong....
DeleteWe pulled a travel trailer on our trip and all four tires blew. Most of them in AZ when it was over 100 degrees. One blew when we were traveling through an Indian reservation. There is NOTHING along those roads.. Make sure u have good tires and a spare at all times. Luckily, we just had a little cosmetic damage each time....
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