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