hey Tawny - hope you have a great time at your Gramma's b'day. How cool! Sorry for my long absence from the blog - we have been technology deprived since we landed in Florence, but have just learned we have internet in our apartment (something they could have mentioned a week ago!) and all is now as it should be. I get car sick, too, if I read. Am also jealous of your eldest - how cool would that be! The miles rolling away, and you're totally off on an adventure in your head. Sigh. Chris and I lived in Sydney for a while, and we did the 10 hour drive down to Melbourne to visit family and friends a lot. The radio, sporadic conversation, I spy, sleeping (um, not when it was my turn to drive!) and singing to CDs was the order of the day. These days, people have cars with DVD players in them. Maybe I need to join the 21st century...

I don't drive, so I can and do read books in the car (or train), I even used to do some of my homework when I was coming home from school in a bus. I don't remember reading much when I have been on the plane, though. I watched some of the movies they showed, listened to the music and talked with the passengers sitting next to me. That have been interesting sometimes, to say the least. Just try to understand a man from Scotland when your own mother tongue isn't English and the man's language can be barely defined as English.

Knit knit knit!!! And then knit some more! ;)

I bring socks for travel knitting because they're small and the general pattern is a snap once you know how to knit them. I'm a nervous flyer (although I suspect if Angel Torres was at the controls, I'd be less nervous...or at least focused on something other than dying) and the knitting works better to take my mind off being 30K feet in the air in a hollow tube. I can't read in the car anymore either, but for some reason I can still knit.

Of course, the safety of having sharp, pointy sticks in front of an airbag is debatable, but I'll take my chances.

Safe travels!

Margaret

...in the car at least! :-) I've never grown out of getting car sick. I used to listen to books on tape, but my Jeep doesn't have a CD or tape player, so I haven't done that in a while. I will listen to music or a football or hockey game if they are on. I can read on a flight if it isn't too turbulent. I've gotten a number of books read on various flights!

Have a great trip! Happy Birthday, Grandma! :-)

I like being places and not going places as well -- which is why I always choose teleporting as the superpower of choice. ;)

I can't read in the car, makes me nauseated, too, so I talk, daydream, listen to music. Probably also why I prefer driving, because it gives me something to do, though if I'm not driving I usually fall asleep.

I can read on planes -- just got better at that as a distraction method. I was never crazy about flying, and the first few times, couldn't read, either, was too nervous, but the last time I flew I finished two books and took a nap. And it's gotten to the point where if I am given the choice of flying over driving, I'll take it because it's faster.

I almost never take my computer, take my cell phone but sometimes leave it in the room or shut it off, and I don't have an iPod, though Mike does. I do bring books, and maybe on a family trip, like you're taking, I would bring the laptop, but for a vacation vacation, no way. I am firm about no technology/work on vacations.

I do bring a camera. I love to snap pictures of anything and everything. On the NYC trip we had a video camera since Mike was going to a trade show (I went too, and was camera girl -- a guy actually called me that), and so I took lots of video on the way down, but as Mike puts it, I was a "spaz" with the video, kind of all over the place (except when taping his interviews -- I was a pro then, dressed all in black and followed him around like the papparazzi...). LOL

I guess when I'm home I sit around and read and write so much, when I'm not home, it's the last thing I want to do, so I tend to be go-go-go on vacations...

Sam

Hope you have a great time. I still get car sick. My son also does too. So hubby kinda hates to go on long trips with us!!

I read in the car. I get very car sick if I look out the window but I'm fine reading--isn't that odd? And lucky for me.

Also I have a 35-45 min commute one way (it's longer at night due to traffic) to work so I listen to books on CD in the car.

Lately I've been listening to Christopher Moore's stuff. That guy is laugh out loud funny!

Have a great trip, Tawny!

ani

I'd love to read in the car, but it does unfortunately make me carsick (you're SO lucky, Ani!) I listen to music, or play silly car games with the kids, or insist on taking a turn driving...

If we're traveling by plane, I love to read, but that's not quite possible yet because our carry-ons are still filled with snacks and amusements for the kids. Very much looking forward to the kids getting slightly older, if for nothing else but reclaiming my carry-on space for MY amusements! :)

My book and Ipod are the only way to survive a flight, because I am afraid to flight. And I have a ten hour flight to the US. So I also pack my palm pilot for the ebooks into my handluggage

I read some in the car, but find I'm all blurry eyed when I look up. I did go to see a friend this past week and read on the plane both ways. In fact, the book I was reading was so good, that I was kinda ticked that we landed so soon. lol It's a nocturne, called The Dark Gate.

Hey Tawny!

Have a great trip!! I never read while traveling, get car sick as well. Usually, I drive. It's the only thing that really helps. I've only been on a plane once, on the way back it had a movie, that helped - and I slept. On the way there, it was all new and wonderful - except for the monsters in the tummy.

I love car trips (any trips, really *g*) but I do still get car sick :-( I can't read, can't look behind me (to yell at the kids *g*) and can't sit in the back seat. But I can look out the window (I love taking back roads instead of highways whenever possible) and sing along to the radio. Oh, and I can daydream about my next book :-)

I do read when I fly (sounds like I have super powers *g*)which is great as there's no scenery to keep me occupied!

Hope you have a great trip and Happy Birthday to your Gramma!

I never could read in the car if I was in the back seat. I would get car sick and make my parents unhappy. Now since I am the one doing the driving I can't read. However I always take books with me when I travel and even buy new ones.

I can sometimes read, I usually look through magazines, I like to listen to books on tape that is how I finished all 7 Harry Potters I borrowed them from the library

Hi,

I am glad I am not the only one who makes a list :)

I can't go without my i-pod, but always leave my laptop at home when I am going on vacation!