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We recently drove 5000 miles in two weeks and we learned a few things along the way.  Over the next few weeks I'll share some of our lessons.

Lesson 1 - Share the driving!

No matter how much your husband loves to drive, make him give you a turn once in a while, at least once a day.  Even someone who loves to drive will be tired and cranky after 400 or 500 miles.  If you want your trip to go smoothly and harmoniously, share the driving.

Lesson 2 - A 90-minute lunch break will throw off your schedule.

Unless you planned for an hour and half stop of course.  The first day out we got a late start and then found the coolest rest area/picnic spot for lunch that our goal of 30 minutes for lunch stretched in to an hour and a half.  It was a lot of fun but we ended up changing our route to compensate.  Oddly enough, 90 minutes became our standard stopping time, no matter how hard we tried to make our breaks shorter!

Lesson 3 - Cities on the state line may not be in the time zone you think they are.

We got in to West Wendover, Nevada at 8:45 pm, only to discover that West Wendover is on Utah time and it was really 9:45.   These things are easy to find out if you check in advance, but we didn't think to check in advance.  We had a quiet dinner of take out pizza in the dark in front of our cabin and went straight to bed.

That's it for now, but stay tuned for more.