Road Trips

My family used to go on a lot of road trips. We'd usually go either to St. Louis or Ohio - close states that we have relatives in. They were only on average about four hours, but they were still fun. But occasionally we would take the 6-10 hour road trip. My favorite was when we didn't get started until the evening, and then we ended up travelling through the night and into the next day. My dad has a huge GM van that the four of us would pile into (me, my parents, and my sister). We always got to pack our choice of drink (diet coke for my mom, diet rite for my dad, grape soda for me, and orange soda for my sister) and my dad would make us all bologna sandwiches (I wanted mine with mayo, my sister's was always mustard.) We would stay up late watching movies or playing video games on the t.v. in the van. Eventually we would fall asleep. I always loved waking up in the middle of the night at a gas station or rest stop and going in to get snacks, then staying up for another half our or so (maybe reading), and then conking out again.