Hit the Road with these Bookish Road Trip Essentials

Summer’s here and it’s time to hit the open road! Day trip or Route 66 extravaganza? What books are you bringing with you and how many? Clothes? Unnecessary. Hairbrush? That’s what fingers are for. I was the kid with the overflowing tote bag of library books on the road trip. If I was going to be crammed in a hot car for 5-20 hours, I needed books with me. I have an ereader now, so thankfully I can bring a hairbrush and an extra shirt on my next trip. For those who can read in the car, how does it feel to be the favorite? Audiobooks are now my preferred way to read while traveling. I’ll admit it, I still like to stare wistfully out the windows and pretend to be the main character of my current read. You can’t do that while reading a physical book.

Maybe it’s the warm weather, maybe it’s the unbound optimism of having spent the last two summers entirely at home, but I’m looking at my future travel plans like that scene in A Goofy Movie where everyone is singing about how much they love driving. Pack those books, queue up an audiobook or two, and make your summer road trip decidedly more bookish with these fun pieces!