So I will be traveling to Boston with my parents to go visit my sister and her husband. I will be taking their portable DVD Player, a lot of movies, my Game Boy SP, and am now getting ready to go look for my sisters book light. I will be taking my camera too. My mom will also be taking her camera and she also bought a GPS. The trip should take 12 hours.

Whatever happened to using a map, reading a book during the day, and doing all of the other things that don't involve electronics? Somehow I survived 24 hour trips to Iowa and 10 hour trips to Florida without all of this stuff when I was little.

5/19/2009 1:19:56 PM

PIZZA ON A BAGEL

5/19/2009 1:20:53 PM

^Wouldn't that make a mess out of the car?

5/19/2009 1:21:23 PM

I couldn't take a 12 hour road trip with my parents even with all the ipods, gameboys and dvds in the world

I would definitely fly instead...you can get flights to Boston out of Raleigh or Charlotte for 300 or less

5/19/2009 1:23:28 PM

oops! wrong forum! Doh!

5/19/2009 1:29:02 PM

^^^^did you know that when pizza's on a bagel, you can eat pizza anytime?

[Edited on May 19, 2009 at 1:29 PM. Reason : ^]

5/19/2009 1:29:29 PM

^^thats why i posted Pizza on a Bagel

5/19/2009 1:30:36 PM

5/19/2009 1:32:36 PM

Alphabet game, next olympic sport.

5/19/2009 1:34:27 PM

5/19/2009 1:39:18 PM

I used to dominate my brother in some car bingo back in the day.

(note: car bingo were these little cardboard games with random road shit on them. If you saw something, you covered it up. If you covered up enough of them, you got bingo. It was much simpler times)

5/19/2009 1:44:06 PM

my sister and i shared some epic games of "travel sorry" back in the day

5/19/2009 1:50:28 PM

my friends little brother and i used to read every road sign backwards; endless laughs

5/19/2009 4:20:29 PM

there were some epic linked gameboy tetris battles fought in the back of our minivan.

5/19/2009 4:22:31 PM

I thought this thread was going to be what Hansborough will be saying once he plays in the NBA

[Edited on May 19, 2009 at 5:10 PM. Reason : ]

5/19/2009 5:06:21 PM

I analyzed football statistics and made my own league made up of re-drafted teams with coach/gm profiles and salary caps and played entire seasons out in my head and on paper.


This is why I still know the majority of RBs and QBs from around 1986-1990

[Edited on May 19, 2009 at 5:10 PM. Reason : d]

5/19/2009 5:10:06 PM

...in between begging your parents to stop at every McDonald's you passed

5/19/2009 5:15:14 PM

oh man, you never get old, ever!

just like the taste of those sweet sweet burgers never got old right?

5/19/2009 5:17:09 PM

...and throwing a temper tantrum when they said "No Shannon, we're holding out for a nice place like Applebee's or Bob Evans"

5/19/2009 5:19:04 PM

oh you fucked up now... Applebees wasnt even around then... should have tossed out a Cracker Barrel or Po'Folks

5/19/2009 5:22:26 PM

Applebee's has been around since the early 80's

Even if you're 35 that still puts them in your childhood age bracket

5/19/2009 5:24:32 PM

Get it together, baby!

5/19/2009 5:32:52 PM

we generally didn't

5/19/2009 5:51:22 PM

we played, "that's your house", by pointing at shacks and run-down buildings we would see on the road

5/19/2009 5:51:55 PM

i thought this was gonna be about travel in 19th century and i was about to drop some knowledge on that ass

oh well

5/19/2009 5:52:51 PM

bigman ++

5/19/2009 5:53:00 PM

You don't need those things to survive travelling. Well, at least you don't if you're not a socially inept dipshit.


Come on dude, you're almost in your 30's.

5/19/2009 5:56:13 PM

i recently did a 48 hour road trip (24 each way over the course of 3 days) with the boyfriend

we kept completely entertained with xm radio and random naps. i think i read 1 magazine the entire time

in all honesty, it was some of the most fun we've ever had and hardest we've ever lol'd

5/19/2009 6:28:41 PM

Quote :

"Applebee's has been around since the early 80's"

not anywhere that I saw... that god awful shit didnt come around until the mid 90s

5/19/2009 7:16:33 PM

Quote :

"I couldn't take a 12 hour road trip with my parents even with all the ipods, gameboys and dvds in the world"

agreed. anything more than 5 or 6 hours, i try to fly. i hate riding in cars.

5/19/2009 7:18:15 PM

i can't read or watch movies in the car

makes me

5/19/2009 7:36:10 PM

Quote :

"The Beginning of the Applebee's Concept 1980: Bill and TJ Palmer open T.J. Applebee's Rx for Edibles & Elixirs,® in Atlanta, Georgia."

in atlanta nonetheless

although the first restaraunt was later

Quote :

"1986: The name is changed to Applebee's Neighborhood Grill & Bar. Abe Gustin and John Hamra of Kansas City open their first Applebee's franchise restaurant in Kansas City."

[Edited on May 19, 2009 at 7:39 PM. Reason : .]

5/19/2009 7:38:53 PM

^ I didnt grow up in Atlanta... moved here about 2 years ago

5/19/2009 7:40:19 PM

hah ya, i just thought it was a funny coincidence

5/19/2009 7:51:27 PM

i spent way too many of my late teens and early 20s at fucking applebees waiting on assholes

5/19/2009 7:53:01 PM

Quote :

"my Game Boy SP"

+

Quote :

"Age: 29"

=

Quote :

"PETER PAN SYNDROME"

5/19/2009 8:06:04 PM

Quote :

"i recently did a 48 hour road trip (24 each way over the course of 3 days) with the boyfriend we kept completely entertained with xm radio and random naps. i think i read 1 magazine the entire time in all honesty, it was some of the most fun we've ever had and hardest we've ever lol'd"

Yeh I pretty much did nothing the entire trip besides talk and look out the window, but I did manage to watch a few classic western films and Cinderella Man. Also, I can remember when there was no XM radio and people actually had to listen to local stations.

btw, having a GPS isn't a bad thing. It sure was helpful when we made a wrong turn in the slums of New York City!

5/26/2009 12:50:56 AM

pizza in the morning

pizza in the evening

pizza at suppertime

5/26/2009 12:53:00 AM

Quote :

"I used to dominate my brother in some car bingo back in the day. (note: car bingo were these little cardboard games with random road shit on them. If you saw something, you covered it up. If you covered up enough of them, you got bingo. It was much simpler times)"

I FUCKING LOVED THAT GAME.

And when the trip is long enough, we'd play for FULL CARD. Whoever got the board with "Tree Grove" on it was usually fucked.

5/26/2009 12:56:13 AM

^We had those too when I was little and we always tried to fill the card. It got very challenging as fewer and fewer people between Raleigh and Tampa and Raleigh and Livermore drove Red VW Beatles. Then VW finally came out with the New Beatle and it was easier again!

[Edited on May 26, 2009 at 1:02 AM. Reason : .]

5/26/2009 1:01:14 AM

Quote :

"i recently did a 48 hour road trip (24 each way over the course of 3 days) with the boyfriend we kept completely entertained with xm radio and random naps. i think i read 1 magazine the entire time in all honesty, it was some of the most fun we've ever had and hardest we've ever lol'd"

I recently discovered that long car rides with a significant other can be great fun and MUCH more bearable than ones with just friends

5/26/2009 5:40:41 PM

I still play the Name game and I Spy

5/26/2009 5:42:24 PM

I mostly just whined and acted like a little asshole.

5/26/2009 5:46:08 PM

Quote :

"1986: The name is changed to Applebee's Neighborhood Grill & Bar. Abe Gustin and John Hamra of Kansas City open their first Applebee's franchise restaurant in Kansas City."

For what its worth I think Applebees sucks too, but the one Applebees I went to in Kansas City was a billion times better than the ones around here. I guess it helps your quality control when the CEO could walk in the door on any given day.

[Edited on May 26, 2009 at 5:52 PM. Reason : where'd that w come from]

5/26/2009 5:52:01 PM

DID YOU SURVIVE IT WITH BACK TO THE FUTURE AND NEON SUNGLASSES?

5/26/2009 6:29:54 PM

^I only wear those on Halloween and when I take photos of myself for the internet.

5/26/2009 9:49:39 PM

'scuse me ladies...I'm taking pictures of myself for the internet.

5/26/2009 9:55:38 PM

My sister and I would play the punching game until our parents finally would yell at us to stop

5/26/2009 9:57:11 PM

i still use maps

5/26/2009 9:59:33 PM

^Having a GPS is not a bad thing when you are driving through the ghetto in NYC and other large cities.

5/26/2009 10:30:57 PM