Traveling long distances alone is fun. The phone is off. You have your own music or book playing. You take the back roads to your destination. You stop along the way at a local diner and have their special for lunch.  And they will always have sweet tea and chocolate pie on the menu. It may take twice as long to arrive, but you actually feel rested from your drive. 

When you are traveling with kids and some adults, it can become tiresome to those backseat drivers.  I learned along time ago to keep an ample supply of games on the go. The internet and iPhone are slowly taking over the backseat, but every once and while, the backseaters just want to enjoy the ride and play a travel on the go game.  The all time favorite is travel bingo.  I picked two sets up at the local Cracker Barrel. One set is for the rural roads and the other set is aimed for interstate roads.  They are a lot of fun and we even have made bets on who was buying dinner on the loser.  The interstate and rural bingo  can be found here
  
   

Another fun on the go game is Uno. This game can go on for quite some time.  You made have to pick up where you left off when you stop for lunch. There is also a lot of deciding who gets the next draw.  You can find it here.

My favorite is hangman. I can’t actually play because I am usually driving, but I can’t help myself in wanting to spell the words.

Of course the favorite of the guys is battleship. The back seat gets rather loud with this game. I just turn up my music . That works every time.  The best part of the trip is family and friends are enjoying the ride .