How to make your next road trip more AMAZING
Celebrating the Everyday, Travel //
Hey everyone! It’s Day 2 of our CRAZY adventure with Justin & Mary for their What’s Next Tour. Today is the first day workshop day of the tour and then we pack up and head off to Phoenix! (We are finishing this post up will Mary is speaking and let us just say that she is definitely ROCKIN’ IT!) Since we will be traveling quite a bit over the next few weeks and and we knew we would most likely start missing some of our favorite things from home, we decided to create a fun little travel box to make our adventure just a little bit more AMAZING. Here a few of the things we’ve included:
Sour patch kids! These are probably Ryan’s all time favorite candy (not consisting of chocolate and peanut butter).
Hairbro Gummy Bears! In addition to sharing the bus with J&M, we are also sharing it with our good friends Ashley and Jeremy. A while back Jeremy had posted that hairbro gummy bears were his favorite. Say no more, we included these too! Ok, I promise, our box of travel amazingess doesn’t just include candy!
Air Freshners! We LOVE to burn candles at home. The smell of fresh linen, cupcakes, spiced pumpkin, and cinnamon are some of our favorites! Although burning candles while driving might not technically be illegal (if anyone knows for sure we’d love to know!) it isn’t exactly the safest thing. Hit one pothole and all of a sudden you have a flaming projectile flying through the air! So instead, we picked up these AMAZING air freshners from Yankee Candle. Now the bus will still smell like spiced pumpkin and cinnamon and we won’t have to worry about testing out the smoke detectors.
Vitamin C Energizing Face Spritz! The tour, although a super incredible once in a lifetime AMAZING fun time, is still going to be a lot of hardwork! Last night already consisted of set design at midnight while using head lamps! Yes head lamps! Like the kind you would use while spelunking! So to fight off the urge to curl up in a ball and rest like a baby, we picked up energizing face spritz from The Body Shop! One quick sprtiz is an instant pick me up of citrus AMAZINGNESS!
To round our the rest of our box we included Ghiradelli Chocolate, Cheez-its, gold stars, and Rolos.
Ok, so this wouldn’t be a “how to” post unless we shared a few tips on how you can create your very own travel box of goodness to make your next road trip more AMAZING. Below are a few ideas to help inspire you!
Find a fun box to store everything in! A boring old plastic bag or cardboard box just won’t do! The goal is to make your trip more AMAZING and that includes the box. We picked up a fun little rustic box at Homegoods then stuffed it with all of our goodies.
Include a few of your favorite indulgences! Traveling and roadtrips are meant to be a break from your everyday lives so spice it up with your favorite chocolates and candies. As we mentioned above, we included sour patch kids, gummy bears, Ghiradelli chocolate and Rolos. Before your next road trip, head to the grocery store and spend a few extra minutes in the candy aisle picking out your favorite sweet treat!
Think therapeutic spa! Whether you are going on a road trip or traveling for business, travel can be rough on the body. Help rejuvenate your body and mind with fun things you world normally only find at a spa. Pack your favorite body lotion, air fresheners, bath soap, and in our case, Vitamin C Spritz. These little extra touches will make your trip that much more relaxing.
In addition to your box of fun, don’t forget to pack the essentials you simply can’t live without. Yesterday we asked on Facebook “What is the one thing you can’t go without while traveling?” Thanks so much to everyone that responded! We received a ton of AMAZING answers and we wanted to share a few of our favorites today.
Brad Slater – A travel partner! Makes it so much more fun. Otherwise, my rollerboard suitcase. It’s been all over and makes navigating airports so much easier.
Natalie Franke – New music / a playlist for the trip!
Abby Field – fresh socks!
Have an AMAZING week and safe travels on your next trip!