Over the weekend, I took a road trip with one of my friends from Montreal to New Hampshire. For anyone unfamiliar with their North American geography, that is a six-hour car ride, not including bathroom breaks. That is a long time to be stuck in a car for anyone. So, what do you do to make the time pass faster. If you’re with someone else, there’s always the option of books or magazines, but as someone who is prone to motion sickness I tend to avoid reading in cars. Instead, I prefer audiobooks. But as we all know, sometimes the voice of a narrator can be a little too soothing a put you off to sleep. Not exactly what you want while driving. So, that really leaves us with one option: music.
A great road trip playlist must accomplish three major things:
- Create a balance of energetic but relaxing,
- Keep you awake,
- And perhaps most importantly, alleviate your stress and frustration due to idiot drivers (they’re inevitable).
I have created an upbeat playlist that has been tried and tested, and is guaranteed to keep you awake and entertained for a two-hour period! Long enough for a day of driving but short enough to not be too daunting and feel like you’re never going to get through all the songs (is that a worry anybody else has, or is it just me?), and diverse enough to have no problem listening to it over twice in a single car journey.
So, if you’ve got a roadtrip coming up, or are just itching to get out of your routine and are thinking about getting into the car and just heading somewhere (I think about doing this a lot), with this playlist to accompany you, I promise you, you won’t regret it.
Enjoy!
P.S. Keep a watch out in the next couple of weeks for another roadtrip playlist, this time filled with some well-known and favourite tunes from the 60s, 70s and 80s!
~ S ~
