I’m back from a really great Spring Break. I won’t bore you with all the details, but I’d like to share some of the things I came away with last week.

1. Ten seems to be the perfect age to road trip with your kid. At least it worked out this way for me. I put the girl in charge of navigation. It was her job to keep up with and read the directions from Mapquest and Yahoomaps. She was also tracking the mileage from one point to the next and subtracting it from our total which nicely took care of all the “Are we there yet” questions since she knew exactly where we were and how much further we needed to go. Ten’s also a good age because I haven’t yet reached the total idiot status in her opinion. We talked about anything and everything.

2. Leave the men behind when you road trip. We pretty much stopped once an hour at rest areas for potty breaks. Men just can’t handle that. Much as I love my stepfather, we had to limit our beverage intake so that we were only stopping every 3 to 4 hours. It would have driven him mad to stop that many times and my husband would’ve complained, but, hey, it worked for us!

3. North Carolina is crawling with state troopers. We saw more state troopers in North Carolina than in Georgia, South Carolina and Virginia combined. They take their speed limit very seriously. So did I since I was in no frame of mind to contribute to the coffers of that great state. This is not the state to discover just how fast your car will go. :O

4. Speed detection devices are illegal in Virginia. You don’t want to speed here either.

5. Life is good blowing down the highway on a sunny day with the sunroof open, the wind whipping through your hair and Stevie Ray Vaughn working out the kinks on Texas Flood.

Jen