This Ain't Your Mama's Road Trip

Five words: iTrip iPod/car radio adapter. Anyone who has ever gone on a road trip without one really hasn’t gone on a road trip. True, there’s something to be said about constantly having to scan through the meager selection of available radio stations while driving through the middle of nowhere, but this is way better than that. Between the two of us, we have a few days worth of unrepeating music. Yes, we know we’re spoiled. We remember the road trips of our youth when all you had was a library book, your Walkman, and the alphabet game to keep you entertained. We realized this was a 21st-century road trip when MB was simultaneously talking to a hotel clerk on her cell phone, getting VZ Navigator directions on Susie’s cell phone, taking photos of the landscape with her digital camera, and synchronizing her iPod to the car radio while drafting blog entries on the laptop, with the video camera perched on the dashboard to record our singing along to Hairspray. When it all comes down to it, though, if you don’t properly charge the suckers, you’re stuck with good old-fashioned pen and paper, like Susie was when she wrote this section.

Note: Despite the 21st century-ness of our trip, we have had some trouble getting regular internet connections. This, combined with our need for at least four hours of sleep each night, has delayed our intended timely entry of posts. Good news, there's hope! It's Day 7 and we've finally figured out that one of the advantages of bringing a laptop on a trip is that it will work anywhere (including the lap of a person in the passenger's seat of a car). For those of you that have been requesting a daily dose of our adventures, they should be more prompt (i.e., closer to real time).