Pre-College Road Trip

HImom
Sun, 17 Nov 2013 05:12:14 +0000

My kids at 23 and 21 went on a cross country road trip from LA to Lake Tahoe and many other points before getting to The elder kiddo’s new place to live and job in Washington DC. His job reimbursed travel expenses and both had been in college, had AAA with a 100 mile towing membership, S’s credit card and savings. By that time, they had both spent a month in Taiwan together with a student youth summer program and S had spent 6 weeks in Thailand. Both had drivers licenses for some time.

I agree that teen drivers should ideally not drive great distances with other young drivers. There are just too many things that can and do go wrong bi can see doing this after a year or more of college, where you’ve lived more independently. I expected my kids to earn funds toward their college spending money over the summer. This long trip sounds like it would cut into summer jobs.