Family Road Trip: Now and Then

Family Road Trip: Now and Then

Family road trips have changed since the 80’s…

Now
Each kid gets their own captains chair with a seat belt.
Then
Kids crammed in the tiny backseat (not wearing seat belts) kicking and screaming that so-in-so is over the line, while the youngest kid is sprawled on the floor over the transmission hump.

Now
TVs, Xboxes and iPads
Then
Mad Libs, license plate game, Coleco Hand held Football Game

Now
Fast food, mega gas stations, outlet malls
Then
Cooler with sandwiches and Shasta soda, rest stops, historic markers

Now
85 mph in a 75, huge windmill farms, XM radio
Then
59.5 mph in a 55, oil pumper fields, mixed tapes

Now
Multiple, competing GPSs
Then
Big-ass State Farm Road Atlas

Now
Cell phones
Then
CB radio (my dad’s handle was ‘Straight Arrow’ and my mom’s was ‘Quiver’… ewwww!)

Now
Texting, Facebook, Tweets, blogging
Then
Talking, blank stares, dead air

Now
Arguments, disagreements, great memories
Then
Arguments, disagreements, great memories

Some things never change.