Car Games

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Both Phillip and I grew up in road-trip-taking families before the time of iPads or backseat DVD players.

Road trip

Back in that age of analog entertainment, there were books and snacks and fighting with your sibling(s) and staring out the window.

We counted Volkswagen “slug” bugs, spotted the letters of the alphabet on road signs, looked for license plates from other states, and tried to get truckers to honk.

Mesa retro motel

I didn’t think about this type of games not being universal until Phillip and I were driving our friends from China to go on their first camping trip and realized this was another new thing for them.

Arizona road trip

Of course, it makes sense that not everyone went on road trips as a kid, and, therefore didn’t play road trip games. I just hadn’t thought about it before.

driving towards ocean sunset

What did you do on long trips growing up (whether you took a car, train, bus, etc.)? Did you play any games like these?

 


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2 Replies to “Car Games”

  1. Yes! We played those games!, and took turns navigating with an actual map(I’mso glad I learned that skill), slept… my Dad built a platform for the back of our VW bus that us kids and our big dogs shared as they put us in the car at night and drove overnight… and we survived without seat belts!!!

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