Simple Travel Games for Kids that aren't "Plugged In"

"Are we there yet?"

Four of the most dreaded words in family travel! 

At least that is the way it used to be.

If your family is consumed with all the electronic stuff available today, you may not hear that phrase as much, but if you are interested in traveling as an interacting family (in the car and with the passing landscape) the following ideas may give you an old-fashioned buzz.

Life was simpler back then ---- when being together meant exactly that.  Sadly today, it too often means separate individuals doing their own thing ---- even when sitting next to each other in a confined space.

In my last post I promised some simple travel ideas to help families (who habitually tune one another out) tune in to each other and the areas where they are traveling. A unique way of traveling that somehow got lost along the way.

Just as it is unnecessary to "reinvent the wheel", it seems equally unnecessary to re-do the pages I wrote in my 2000 booklet Simply Keepin' 'em Busy about simple things kids and families can do and share while riding on those wheels.

Regarding the last item on the above page---our kids are appalled at the memory of doing that---but they all survived. 

Next: Special activities and an auto survival kit for parents of the really young.

Stay tuned!  The mileage game will show up this coming Friday in my  next post . . . along with

• Racing Alphabet
• Letters Game
• Name That Truck

Plus more sanity savers for breaking the monotony of eating and motel-ing on your way to "there."

Just in time for the last holiday of summer!  But not the last chance to try something new.