Self-professed list obsessed person here. If my current profession should suddenly stop working out, I could apply to be Santa’s personal assistant (“Making a list and checking it twice? I do that ALL THE TIME!”)
Of course, lists are always great, but they are probably the most useful when you have to plan ahead and can’t go back to get something you wanted to bring or do something you wanted to do but forgot. So lists. In addition to saving time, money, and various aches (head, heart, feet – your pick) there is one more good reason to make a list: it allows you to look forward and back at the same time. Case in point: planning our road trip music playlist, we rediscovered long-lost goodies, great classics, and the kind of songs that are pure, cheesy nostalgia … We relived the glory days when we put them all together and are now very excited to share them with our kids and to have a soundtrack to go with our drive and our adventure.
Our reading list includes the books we picked for us about all the places we’re going, so we can experience everything through our own senses and through someone else’s lens in the retelling of their trip, and for the kids there are more fantastical adventures – series that capture the wonder of new experiences in the world of the imagination. In both cases they are pure indulgence (reading for pleasure, not work/school) though still feeding our brains with much wholesomeness.
READING LIST for Epic National Parks Road Trip
So if you’re ready to head on out and don’t want to leave everything behind – make yourself a list or borrow one of ours!
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I havent heard of any of those books — they look like great choices! Will you review them after you’re done reading them?
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