Ten Reasons Why I'm Avoiding a Family Road Trip — huffingtonpost.com

After a week cooped up in a car last August, logging more than 1,000 miles in our great state of Colorado, here are 10 reasons why my husband and I may never, EVER take another road trip with our children. 1. All that "together" time. Yes, it's great that our kids know we care about and want to spend time with them. But that close proximity only allows more opportunity to become annoyed with one another. Sitting in a car that long reminds me of the song, "Total Eclipse of the Heart," a 1980s power ballad by Bonnie Tyler that chants, "We're living in a powder keg and giving off sparks." That was us. One-thousand miles of powder keg, threatening to blow at the next exit.

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