One important key to a successful road trip is comfort, even if it comes as part of a daring idea that wasn't so well received by a certain parent prior to beginning the road trip. I'll keep your name quiet... for now ;). Anyways, allow me to explain:Prior to the trip's start, Orion and I rigorously debated the merits of each possible seat arrangement in the van. For the unaware, the van we are driving has multiple seat configuration possibilities. As you can imagine, our ideas were endless and we debated the pros and cons of bringing just 1 seat vs. some seats vs. all 4 seats.
We settled on bringing 1 seat, since we'd only need an extra seat in the back for the third person, and so we moved on to debating the merits of where that seat should be placed. So far bringing one seat has been a good decision as we haven't needed to drive an extra person around.
Orion and I settled on the location of rear passenger side. Why? With that seat in the far back, it offers more privacy for the person there. One thing we've done is turn the music all to the front so that it's completely quiet in the back, which makes for great napping. Other reasons included more foot space compared to a traditional seating arrangement (boy Orion looks comfortable in that picture). And putting the seat on the passenger side, rather than the driver side, meant that viewing out of the back is not impaired. Note: this advantages list was twice as long but I had to edit it down for the sake of brevity.
We'll post other tips (idiosyncrasies?) so that you, our loyal readers, can get more "behind the scenes" glimpses into our trip and perhaps use a tip or two from us...
Rafael
