Road Tripping With the Delps

Living 12 hours from both sets of grandparents, with 2 kids 3 and under leaves us little choice but to make lots of road trips to Texas and Pennsylvania. These have become family events that we have looked forward to and have enjoyed over the past few years.

They are made a lot easier because we have the best traveling family ever! Yes, the rumor is true, we made it to Texas in less than 12 hours with only stopping one time to let the kids out of the car (compare that to 14+ hours for Grammy and Grandpa)! We even did the same thing on the way home. We did not use a DVD player and the words "we didn't have DVD players in our cars growing up" were uttered numerous times.

Before you go and call the authorities on us for inhumane treatment of our children, they rather enjoyed it. You would be amazed at how long a Dum Dum lollipop can keep a child occupied. Or in Sam's case, you'd be amazed at how looking at bridges and searching for alligators can keep him busy for hours. Maya got lost hundreds of times under her blanket, thankfully we found her every time.

I hope that our road trips to PA and Texas will remain family favorites for years to come (somehow I don't think they will enjoy them when they are teenagers, but one can hope). I know as they get older we will need to stop more, but for now I will enjoy seeing how fast we can make it!