Travel Tips for Car Trips

Published: November 19, 2007, 11:31 am

Tags: travel with toddlers, family vacations, car travel, travel with children

With the holidays approaching, our family has several long car trips ahead of us. Having made these trips before throughout my children’s childhood, I offer these suggestions to help manage car trips this holiday season. When calculating the time it will take to get there, factor in an additional 25%. For example, from Palo Alto to Santa Barbara, according to Google Maps, is supposed to take about 5 hours - when we travel with our kids, it always takes 6.5 hours. Our trip to San Diego is supposed to take 7.5 hours, I am planning on 10. Why the extra time? Kids, especially toddlers who cannot self-entertain, will need to stop fairly often to run around. And even those who can read or do crafts by themselves, still need to get out of car seats and have a stretch. Entertainment is probably where I spend the majority of my trip planning. Fortunately, my son is quite happy doing game books, and my daughter is good with projects. However, there was a time when both were too small to

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