| One of my favorite travel games is chess. Okay, it's | | | | considered bad form for the driver to slow down, |
| just one of my favorite games, and I have three-ounce | | | | letting more cars pass, so his guess will be the |
| set with a cloth board, so I can take it anywhere. The | | | | closest.One classic travel game involves the alphabet. |
| last time I used it was in the town center of a small | | | | Try to spot something starting with an "a", and be the |
| pueblo in the Andes Mountains. The games below are | | | | first to call it out ("apple tree!"). Since the Qs and Xes |
| primarily car travel games, but can be adapted to | | | | are difficult, they can be skipped. The player with the |
| other forms of travel too. Have fun!Educational Travel | | | | most "firsts," is the winner.Using the radio, you can |
| GamesSome games get you thinking, learning | | | | have a game in which everyone tries to be the first to |
| something, or at least showing off what you know. | | | | call out the name of the artist when a song starts. |
| Here's one for the family. Have the driver, or another | | | | Then change the station, so you don't have to wait |
| designated host, asks questions like "What | | | | through a whole song to continue the contest. In one |
| temperature does water boil at?" or "What's the | | | | car radio game, each player chooses a word. The |
| Capital of Columbia?" or "With sales tax of 7.6%, | | | | player whose word is spoken (or sung) first on the |
| what's the total cost of a $23 sweater?" For the kids | | | | radio is the winner.Here is one you can play anywhere. |
| to love this one, you may have to pay twenty-five | | | | Someone starts a story with a sentence or two, then |
| cents for each right answer.Another car travel game | | | | each person in turn adds a line to the story. It can get |
| starts with someone looking out the window and | | | | personal, but this usually creates a story that has |
| randomly selecting an object. Players then try to | | | | everyone laughing.Try one of these on your next trip, |
| imagine a creative way to make money with it. Old | | | | especially if you have a car full of kids. They are easy, |
| barns become places to advertise, cows are rented | | | | and unlike my chess game, you don't need anything |
| out for kids parties, and an house that is being moved | | | | but a few people to play these travel games.Steve |
| becomes a traveling discotheque."Red Car" Travel | | | | Gillman hit the road at sixteen, and traveled the U.S. |
| GamesGuess how many red cars will pass in the next | | | | and Mexico alone at 17. Now 40, he travels with his |
| ten miles or ten minutes. It can also be blue cars, | | | | wife Ana, whom he met in Ecuador. |
| trucks, or whatever everyone agrees to. It's | | | | |