You might be in the same room, but you're not together. Alice says there are a handful of TV programs worth watching, but tube watching is no way to spend a road trip. Sure, there's something to be said for a day of driving without bickering in the back seats. Maybe that's true more often than we want to admit. Yet long car trips are a rite of passage in childhood.
Every kid deserves at least one trip.
Great-grandma Alice would give the world to be able to take just one more winding road trip with her kids, some of whom are grandparents themselves. It seems like yesterday that we were having so much fun. My kids still talk about how they loved those trips. I have faith, you see, that not too many parents will be duped by those ads. I hope not.