Five Essential Holiday Road Trip Items To Keep in Your Trunk - Family Car Guide

What's in your trunk? I have a home-made road emergency kit with jumper cables, tire pump, quart of oil, small shovel, screw driver, pliers and hand ax. I also carry a first aid kit which I assembled when my son was in Boy Scouts. Tell us what you think is essential.

Five Essential Holiday Road Trip Items To Keep in Your Trunk - Family Car Guide: "Heading out onto the roads this holiday season to go across the river and through the woods to Grandmother's house can be a stressful affair. Not to mention evil women in Gingerbread houses who try to cook you (oops, mixing my fairy tale metaphors here) there are big rigs, distracted drivers and other road hazards to contend with."

Secrets for Surviving Holiday RoadTrips

Here are some ideas for making a Thanksgiving road trip more fun even when disaster threatens. Be sure and explore the Roadtrip America website for lots of good stuff about road tripping.

Secrets for Surviving Holiday RoadTrips: "The roads are jammed, the kids are squabbling, the weather is sleety and the pumpkin pie is going cold in the trunk. Ah, yes, it's the annual Thanksgiving road trip. Is there anything you can do to make this pilgrimage more bearable? Yes, there is."

Top Ten Reasons that Road Trips Suck | Gadling.com

It's good to read a contrary view every once in awhile. Here's ten reasons to think twice about that road trip you are planning. Forwarned is forarmed, as they say.

Top Ten Reasons that Road Trips Suck | Gadling.com: "Road trips suck. Just in time for Thanksgiving, let's go ahead and talk about it. It might make you feel better."