| Car travel games are a tradition wherever
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| | what's the total cost of a sweater priced
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| families take vacations or long trips by
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| | at $22?" If you want the kids to love
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| automobile. Long drives are always more
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| | this one, pay twenty-five cents for each
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| tolerable with some diversion or
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| | right answer.In another car travel game,
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| entertainment, and reading might not be
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| | someone looks out the window and randomly
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| the best choice, at least for the driver.
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| | selects an object. Everyone in the car
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| Why not try some games that everyone in
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| | then tries to imagine a creative way to
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| the car can play?"Blue Car" Travel
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| | make money with it. Overpasses become
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| GamesThese are travel classics. Each
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| | places to advertise, cows are rented out,
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| person guesses how many blue cars will
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| | and a truck becomes a traveling
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| pass in the next ten miles or ten
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| | discotheque.Other Car Travel GamesTurn on
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| minutes. Of course it can be red cars, or
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| | the radio and you can have a game in
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| trucks, or whatever everyone agrees to.
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| | which everyone tries to be the first to
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| By the way, it's considered bad form for
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| | call out the name of the artist when a
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| the driver to slow down, letting more
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| | song starts. You can change the station,
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| cars pass, so his guess will be the
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| | so you don't have to wait through a whole
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| closest.Another classic travel game
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| | song to continue the contest.In another
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| involves the alphabet. Everyone tries to
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| | car radio game, each person in the car
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| spot something starting with an "a", and
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| | chooses a word. Then you turn on the
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| be the first to call it out ("apple
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| | radio. The person whose word is spoken
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| tree!"). Since the Qs and Xes are
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| | (or sung) first on the radio is the
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| difficult, they can be skipped. The
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| | winner.Finally, have one person in the
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| person with the most "firsts," is the
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| | car start a story with a sentence or two.
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| winner.Educational Travel GamesThese are
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| | Each person in turn adds a line to the
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| car games that get you thinking, learning
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| | story. This can get personal, but usually
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| something, or at least showing off what
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| | creates a story that has everyone
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| you know. In one game, the driver, or
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| | laughing.Steve Gillman hit the road at
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| another designated host, asks questions
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| | sixteen, and traveled alone across the
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| like "At what temperature does water
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| | United States and Mexico at 17. Now 40,
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| boil?" or "What is the Capital of
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| | he continues to travel with his wife Ana,
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| Columbia?" or "If sales tax is 7.6%,
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| | whom he met in Ecuador.
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