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There is a popular saying that the journey is the goal, and this couldn't be any more true than with road trips. Use this TabStart page to find a curated collection of websites that will help you plan a truly enjoyable road trip on the way to your final destination. Some of the resources below offer games for both children and adults to play in the car. Other websites here provide advice on snacks to pack and also on the best places to stop for food. Finally, there are pages below that feature comprehensive guides to AM/FM, internet, and satellite radio stations across the country and even the world.
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Plan Fun Children's Games to Play in the Car on Your Road Trip - The Boys' Life website lists and explains six simple children's games that will keep young minds busy for hours while you head to your destination. Some of the classic games here include I Spy, the Alphabet Game, and the License Plate Game.
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Fun and Off-Beat Road Trip Games for Adults - This site offers a number of highly amusing games for adults on road trips. These activities are likely to leave you and your travel companions with more than a few interesting stories and photos. A particularly fun aspect of these activities is that they will require you to interact with the locals and the towns you pass.
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Planning Fun Road Trips with Car Travel Games for Kids - MomsMinivan.com provides an enormous list of ideas for games that children can play in the car on a road trip. Take a look at this resource and plan the activities that will most interest your little ones. Choose from virtual hide and seek, rest stop athletics, twenty questions, drink cup battleship, the green game, and many more.
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Make a Plan for Healthy Road Trip Snacks and Meals - The Disney Family website provides a list of excellent tips and ideas for planning healthy snacks and meals on your road trip. Some of the snacks mentioned are dried fruit, roasted soy nuts, and sliced raw fruits and vegetables.
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Plan Healthy Fast Food Meals for Your Road Trip - When you're hungry and on a road trip, some of those highway signs for fast food restaurants can look rather enticing. This fantastic resource offers a number of tips and ideas for creating a (somewhat) healthy meal even if you're at a burger joint. Also, this page will direct you to the calorie and nutritional overviews for the food at Arby's, Burger King, Hardees, IHOP, Kentucky Fried Chicken, McDonald's, Sonic, and Subway
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Guide to the Healthiest Fast Food for Your Road Trip - This page offers advice on specific healthy items at fast food restaurants, taking into consideration calorie count, grams of fat, and sodium.
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Radio Station Locator for the Entire Country - This is an incredibly valuable source if you are on a road trip and you don't have an iPod or cd's. Simply enter your zip code, and this site will provide you with the listings of all of the AM and FM stations in your area. The stations are listed with their format (theme), call sign, frequency, signal distance, and city. This site even allows you to search for internet streaming radio.
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Plan a Fun Road Trip with the Guide to Internet Radio - This resource provides a superb overview to the internet radio stations that are available all over the world. You can search by type of music or country.
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Sirius/XM Radio Channel Lineup Guide - This page offers a complete guide to the stations that are available on XM/Sirius Satellite Radio. You can click on the individual stations to see an overview of their format and to see what's playing now.