As you know, tomorrow is Independence Day, and nothing says “Fourth of July” like sitting in traffic for hours to get to a crowded beach where you’ll develop a wicked sunburn and deposit sands in places it was never meant to be.
Well, there’s the drive back, of course, which says it just as well, but I digress.
I can’t offer any grand solutions to holiday traffic congestion or our skin’s love-hate relationship with ultraviolet radiation, but I can suggest at least one remedy to road-trip boredom.
Mix tapes.
Yes, it’s hardly a novel concept, and for most of you, the term is actually a misnomer – unless you’re incredibly old-school and still have a box of cassettes in your car, in which case, kudos to you for living life like it’s 1985. But nothing takes the sting out of a boring drive like a carefully selected set of songs arranged around a theme.