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Yep, the whole calculus changes with kids, and you have to be much more intentional and disciplined about meals, bathroom breaks, and finding ways to keep them occupied.
I didn't enjoy road tripping before kids either.
It makes some things easier. Looking back on it I don't think I took enough long breaks as an adult on road trips. I could go three hours without any stops, and maybe 6-8 hours with only minor stops. But stopping every 1 or 2 hours just makes the whole driving part far less exhausting. And ya it adds a lot of overall time to the trip. But getting where we are going an hour or two later barely matters in the long-run.
Our kids also legitimately enjoy some of the places we have stopped. Like our first visit to a buccees out in Tennessee. They took pictures with the mascot, ate some really good sandwiches, looked through the thousands of souvenir things they sold, got excited about the bathrooms, bought a buccees shirt, and then took pictures outside next to the buccees statue. They talked about that part of the trip for about half a year afterwards.
Had we been planning the trip I don't think we would have allotted an hour of time to visit a glorified and super sized gas station. But I'm happy we went.
Every company in the world needs to be researching whatever the hell is the secret sauce for buccees, even my completely zero whimsy elderly father loves that place.
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