tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29235839.post7205013008968195004..comments2024-02-05T05:15:04.759-08:00Comments on Wandering Scientist: An Unusual Sort of GetawayCloudhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09317847285050447789noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29235839.post-5217899726825740062012-03-27T18:48:12.283-07:002012-03-27T18:48:12.283-07:00Snacks in baggies is definitely our saviour (for t...Snacks in baggies is definitely our saviour (for the drive anywhere...DS totally melts down when food needs are not met and everything goes downhill from there). And we used a clipboard with a pouch of crayons when we drove to NYC. Was supposed to be an 8 hour drive (we had a bunch of stops), but it ended up being 12 hours! Eek. DS did amazingly well. He was just over 2 at the time so I sat with him in the back seat to colour, read books, etc. But the clip board was really great. Books on CD are great too. And we've also started playing 'I Spy'...not that you could do that for the whole trip, but it helps break things up.the millinernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29235839.post-10042359847829466892012-03-27T15:06:37.445-07:002012-03-27T15:06:37.445-07:00I've had good luck with eating candied ginger ...I've had good luck with eating candied ginger for (pre-) motion sickness.<br /><br />More to follow, maybe -- dashing now!Alexicographerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06029216139568740202noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29235839.post-5154157886726157032012-03-27T13:54:48.530-07:002012-03-27T13:54:48.530-07:00For motion sickness, I recommend spotting. One of...For motion sickness, I recommend spotting. One of my father's Sierra Club friends taught it to me when I was little on the winding roads of Mt. Tamalpias. Basically you pick something in the distance like a tree or a pole and you stare at it until it passes you on the side. Then you pick something else. And you do it until the winding stops.<br /><br />Exactly the same idea as spotting when ballerinas do turns.nicoleandmaggiehttp://nicoleandmaggie.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29235839.post-50405168747888394762012-03-27T11:56:14.805-07:002012-03-27T11:56:14.805-07:00Oooh! I hadn't thought of books on tape. That ...Oooh! I hadn't thought of books on tape. That is a GREAT idea. We may try that for our next long car drive. <br /><br />I get motion sick, too. There is no way I could read in the car! Just looking stuff up on a map can get me a little woozy, and if we are on a winding road, I prefer to be the driver. I use the pressure bands, too, for boat rides. And if anyone wants to tell me it is just the placebo effect, I'll tell them to shut up and let me keep my placebo!<br /><br />I also find that fizzy drinks and salty snacks help A LOT. I have taken many a boat trip with a big bag of potato chips and a soda to get me through.Cloudhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09317847285050447789noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29235839.post-9604793069384851292012-03-27T11:39:42.916-07:002012-03-27T11:39:42.916-07:00For what it's worth, we do long drives with ou...For what it's worth, we do long drives with our 2 kids when we go on vacation, & Little Sister gets carsick. She can't do things that involve looking at or concentrating on things inside the car. Well, she can, but then she throws up. Anyway, we have had great success with books on tape for those longer car rides--& even for daytrips that are just shy of 2 hours in the car each way. We first tried them when Elder Brother was 5 or 6 & Little Sister was 3, so this may be something to try when kids are a bit older than yours are now, but both the kids have loved the various books on tape we've tried. We also listen to those NPR/PRI audio collections, like their Animal Stories & Bird Stories. (The biggest hit of the books has been David Tennant reading Cressida Cowell's How to Train Your Dragon--the first & biggest success of audio books we've tried. Even last summer, Harry Potter was deemed good, but still a little too scary at the end.)<br /><br />Anyway, I'm sure you've already thought of the books-on-tape thing, but it's been such a boon to us, I wanted to share one of our few success stories! (Oh, those wrist-band pressure-point things have been great for Little Sister & her motion-sickness, too, though I have no idea if that's a placebo-effect thing or something else. You all don't have that problem, though, so that's neither here nor there!)<br /><br />Safe travels to you all.etanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29235839.post-66484689277041667682012-03-26T21:46:07.334-07:002012-03-26T21:46:07.334-07:00We did the drive from SD to Tucson when J was a li...We did the drive from SD to Tucson when J was a little over 1--he did amazing. I'm not so sure he'd do as well as your girls did now that he's 2.5. Sounds like they were absolute champs!<br /><br />And I'd totally offer my sweetheart of a dog for your girls to reacclimate--but besides the fact that we're north of you, she's a larger dog (lab/border collie mix), and I think I remember you saying one of your girls had a particular problem with bigger dogs? But the offer's there if you want it.Gingerhttp://rambleramble.comnoreply@blogger.com