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Surviving Long Car Rides

I love my husband and I love spending time with him. However‚ driving twenty two bone crushing hours in a row is not my idea of  an easy ride across the country. That is how my husband used to do his driving in his single days. He had his red bull in one hand and Queen’s Don’t Stop Me Now blaring out the car speakers. Now that Chandler is married‚ he realized that plan was not going to go over strongly. However‚ moving across country from Phoenix‚ Arizona to Nashville‚ Tennessee takes patience and planning. My husband and I like planning our trip so it goes smoothly as possible. We need our comforts and we both are very particular about what we need for the trip.

The two things that is most important to my husband and I are food and sleep. We are two minutes from a meltdown and nit picking at each other when six hours has rolled by and food and sleep are not in the equation. I act like I haven’t eaten in years and my husband starts to get annoyed with the traffic. Then we go through the gamut of where we should eat because my husband and I want to pick the number one place to eat in that state. Can you tell we are foodies? However‚ that plan does not always work out so easily. For example‚ we drive into Sulfur‚ Louisiana looking for this famous Cajun food restaurant and everywhere we drive the restaurants are closed. We are annoyed at this point‚ but not giving up. Driving down the road we find a Raising Canes. However‚ it is packed to the nines with heathen children running around with their heads cut off and parents just not caring because they obviously need a break from their terrorist children. At this point I am saying a prayer because I both know we are fried at this point from the stress of moving and driving. We decide to scratch the plan of finding a restaurant and head out of Sulfur‚ Louisiana in the next town. We do end up finding a restaurant in Henderson‚ Louisiana. We stuffed our faces with Pat’s Huval’s Camp style Craw fish Etoufee and a bowl of Craw fish Bisque and it is if you had an explosion of awesomeness in your mouth. Pat’s Fishermen’s Wharf was worth the hunt. They did have turtle soup and fried frog legs‚ but I was not about to be brave and try them.

Now that are belly’s are full and we are no longer going to choke somebody out we can make it to our hotel in Jackson‚ Mississippi for some much needed sleep. Again my husband and I are very particular about our sleep and if we both don’t have a full night’s rest ‚ it is game over and we should just be deemed the whiny couple. Our plan was to get two single beds because I am a crazy sleeper and will move around like I am running a marathon in my dreams. My husband on the other hand is a snorer. Normally‚ every night I want to chuck a pillow across the room at his head but realize that is not what rational adults do. He tells me he wants to duck tape my feet together. We do neither of these things and compromise with two beds and ear plugs. The other important detail is to have the right amount of pillows. I need three pillows and my husband needs four pillows. Although he tries to steal mine from me in the middle of the night and sometimes succeeds‚ I usually let it slide. Luckily‚ we brought extra pillows for the car ride so there are plenty to go around. We have the room completely dark‚ and the air turned on just right‚ and we are in business for the long drive the next day. It sounds silly‚ but hey its the little things in life that get a person through moving across the country to a new state.

What are some imperative things you need when you are taking a long trip?

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