I was just so relieved once I finally hit the road because yeah, I had to postpone my trip until the evening

I pack and make sure I have everything and I try and make sure I have all my stuff ready to go. The night before.

Part of why it was stressful because I was using my sister's friend's car and it was this old Nissan. And it was like such a mess.

I was ready to go and I see the maintenance light on, so I had to postpone my trip until the evening before I could get going.

Probably the fact that it had a port for listening to your iPhone, so I can actually listen to music while I drove.

I really like having the flexibility to kind of make detours and explore things.

That trip to the bay it's just a very sentimental trip because I used to do it a lot when I was little with my parents.

I like to find like something kind of like, kind of like a treat, but also not like super decadent

And then after. I'm typically whatever is like around like I try and find the easiest things so because I do like while I enjoy the drive I want to be done as fast as possible.

I try and do this like risk assessment of what I can handle if I wait to pull over in one more pitstop.

It's a nice getaway spot. But it's a little far away

During quarantine there's not really too many safe options for getaways.

Obviously all that got canceled so we scheduled a Poconos trip instead.

Five hours is a little long, but if you've got someone to split with it's totally fine.

We had a kayak strapped to the roof of our car. And we were terrified it's going to fall off at any point.

You make sure you've got some music ready or a podcast or something like that.

We stopped in the middle to get more gas, and same for going back down

Snacks, I mean just like chips or sodas or peanuts or dried fruit or something like that. Something not too messy.

I could be playing any game app on my phone, as long as they don't get carsick.

Worried about the first time during a quarantine drive that you have to go to a rest stop

We drove down to, what was the thing, some fall down in Ohio, with three of my friends.

Two of the people besides me took turns to drive because me and one of the friends couldn't drive.

So the three of us were regularly watching movies Friday nights, and one other person was a roommate of one of the friends who is also a friend of ours.

So we decided to go on a road trip together. Also we needed an extra driver because two of us couldn’t drive.

And we got really hungry on our way back home. We didn't see any place that sold food.

We just looked for a close outdoor place and then we picked one weekend.

because it just seemed easier.

Or we just liked the idea of a road trip. We just wanted to get out of Pittsburgh.

We didn't really eat anything during our road trip besides some snacks I brought with me.

We used the Map app to navigate.

Someone had to keep their eyes on the road and eyes on the map app, while on the road trip and tell the driver the directions.

We took a wrong turn once but it was pretty easy to recover.

We discovered the new spotify feature to make a shared playlist by scanning the QR code or something, so we listened to music and added music to the playlist on the road.

The person in the passenger seat had to keep their eyes on the map app all the time to tell the direction to the driver. I guess if that was automated it would have helped us a lot.

There's really no other way to get there, other than by car.

If we took a train we were gonna have to book the train and go to the train station and at the destination we're going to have to go through another mode of transportation after we arrive at the train station. So we just thought renting a car was way easier to get to the outdoor location that we planned to go.

We became very hungry on our way back. We got some hot dogs at the fall, but that was pretty much it. We got very hungry.