{"id":539,"date":"2007-12-22T23:09:28","date_gmt":"2007-12-23T04:09:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/2007\/12\/22\/the-drive\/"},"modified":"2008-01-09T20:51:53","modified_gmt":"2008-01-10T01:51:53","slug":"the-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/2007\/12\/22\/the-drive\/","title":{"rendered":"The Drive"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today we are driving to Florida along with what appears to be most of North America.\u00a0 From Ohio to Atlanta, Georgia, the trip has been perfect.\u00a0 Somewhere around Macon, Georgia, everything came to a crawl.\u00a0 This continued about every half hour until we reached the turnpike in Florida.\u00a0 In other words, the stretch took about three hours longer than it normally does.<\/p>\n

Fortunately we are equipped with more technology than the first moon landing.\u00a0 We have a\u00a0DVD player in\u00a0each van (we have a two-car caravan going here).\u00a0 That has kept the kids occupied.\u00a0 We watched (they watched while I listened) A Christmas Story, Christmas Vacation, The Santa Clause (1, 2 and 3), The Grinch (original version) and several Mickey Mouse\u00a0Christmas things I have never heard of before.\u00a0 We also have a\u00a0few computers with wireless\u00a0and DC\/AC converters to keep everything powered.\u00a0\u00a0We tried\u00a0a wireless game of Ages of Empires, but had problems with the signal even though we have two cantennas.\u00a0 Three of the kids have Nintendo DS consoles and use the wireless to play head-to-head games.\u00a0<\/p>\n

With all these creature comforts, the “when will we get there” question was frequent once we were eighteen hours into the drive that was suppose to take sixteen.\u00a0 I don’t know how we ever managed to drive across the country as kids armed only with a couple of coloring books and an AM radio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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