Good news: Brian, the kids, and I are leaving on a road trip this Saturday. Woot! Road trip of the East Coast! Five states in fifteen days! BOO-YAAAAH!
And as you may or may not know, road trips need — nay, require — two things:
1. An inside joke that develops during the road trip and which the people who went on the road trip repeat endlessly afterwards, making all of their friends who didn’t go on the road trip want to . . . kill . . . their, um, legs.
2. A killer mix of jammin’ tunes.
So, what I’m asking is: what should I put on the mix? What ONE song would you say is the best road trip song ever? The one song that epitomizes the open highway and endless skyway?
And keep in mind that I’m already putting “Born to Be Wild” on there.
And that I really hate “King of the Road.”
Don’t think — just do it, and I’ll post the results when I’m done creating the playlist.
Thanks!
Brooke
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When I was younger my dad picked up a tape at a gas station during one of our road trips to California. It was called Cruising Classics and forever afterwards became the ultimate soundtrack to our childhood roadtrips. It included such classics as Johnny B’Good, Great Balls of Fire, The Wanderer, Blueberry Hill, My Girl and severeral others that I could probably sing word for work even now if they came on the radio. Anyway have a great trip,
Liz
Best road trip song? OutKast’s Hey Ya, so that when the tedium is almost suffocating, you can “shake it like a polaroid picture.”
My personal road trip playlist:
ALL STAR by Smash Mouth
ROAD MAN by Smash Mouth
LIFE IS A HIGHWAY by Rascal Flatts
REAL GONE by Sherly Crow
ROUTE 66 by Nat King Cole
ORDINARY MIRACLE by Sarah McLaughlin
BIG WORLD by Ryan Shupe and the Rubber Band
IF I WERE A BIRD by Ryan Shupe
THE JOURNEY by Mpulz