One is visual, the other moody, both boring after a while. I'll tell them stories about hobos or pioneers. We'll talk about school, friends, pets. We'll turn off the music and tell fart jokes. I will coordinate their experiences like a tyrant and they will happily chew their sandwiches.
Travel is useful to children.
It engages the senses, leaves its little scenes unpackaged and, most importantly, shows what the road from Oakland to Nevada looks like. The long gray asphalt line will stick itself in their pea brains, revealing its heart years later when appropriate. Travel is useful to children and consequently mine will resist its virtue until they are blue. Skies with clouds, skies without clouds, skies that have birds that have field mice. We'll have the hang of the road and travel with rhythm.