It helps to keep them focused on what we are doing. Each morning before we leave for the day I add a new packet for a new day.Įach day the kids have something new to do and they look forward to seeing what comes next.

I put day 1 in the binder and I keep all the other packets in a separate folder.I label them with a post it note as to what day each packet is for. I start to look through the books and I try to find pages that will go with what we are doing each day. I make packets for each day and three whole punch all the worksheets and paper clip them together.I also go on Pinterest and search for coloring sheets and activities that go with our trip. It had maps for kids and activities that went along with each state. I found a great book at target, Rand McNally Kids’ Road Atlas. I pick up a few educational work books, maze books, crosswords things like that.I also pick up new pencils, colored pencils, pens, and a pencil holder that can go into the binder. I pick up cheap binders at the store or I use ones that I might have hanging around the house.There are going to be some long days in the car so I went right back to creating new road trip binders for this trip. We are flying to Colorado and driving from place to place! I will definitely write a post about the trip when I get back. We are leaving soon for another two week road trip to Colorado, Utah, Arizona, and New Mexico. One of the things that I made up to take with us was a road trip binder……can you say BEST THING EVER?!?! We drove the skyline drive, stopped in Charlottesville, VA, spent the day in Savannah, GA, walked some beaches in Florida and made awesome memories! I think I enjoyed the week of driving to Disney more than the park itself! We truly had an amazing time! We took the time while driving to visit some great locations along the way. A few years ago I’m pretty sure all my friends thought I lost my mind when I told them we were going to Disney and we were going to DRIVE! At that time Luke was 6 and Liam was 3! Now listen we didn’t do a marathon drive to see how fast we could make it to Florida. We have had some great road trips as a family. Honestly, that couldn’t be farther from the truth. Once we had kids I was afraid our road trip days would come to an end.

We’ve had some of our greatest memories taking road trips. While we were dating we would often drive around hoping to get lost. Jeff and I have always loved a good road trip.

Travel journal template printable map