{"id":1869,"date":"2015-03-18T13:55:09","date_gmt":"2015-03-18T18:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hectic-dad.com\/hectic-dad\/?p=1869"},"modified":"2015-06-12T16:03:35","modified_gmt":"2015-06-12T21:03:35","slug":"things-to-keep-in-your-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hectic-dad.com\/hectic-dad\/things-to-keep-in-your-car\/","title":{"rendered":"Things to keep in your car"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"We travel a lot in the Hectic Household. We travel for sports, leisure, work, and to visit each other. Being in the middle of the US means that drives of nine hours still only get us 1\/4 of the way across the country. With one daughter in Boulder, CO and another in Rochester, MN…those 9 hours drives are fairly commonplace. Another daughter went to the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, IN for four years. That meant one-way drives of 12 hours. She then moved to New Jersey…21 hours away. Subsequently another daughter enrolled in Maine Maritime Academy for her university work…a whopping 29 hours by car.<\/p>\n

Those times are\u00a0driving times<\/strong>, they don’t include stops for food, gas, restroom. All that driving means that we’re in our cars a lot.<\/p>\n

I’ve been thinking about what we should have packed in our cars for these trips. We don’t drive the newest cars (my van is perilously close to 200,000 miles), so repair gear is essential. Weather is often a factor when we drive, so we need safety gear. Food, spare charging cables, tow straps…we have a smattering of everything imaginable\u00a0in some of the cars<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

And that’s the real problem. I’m not sure that any of our cars (including my well-stocked van) actually have all the essentials on this list. There are really four\u00a0classes of situations that I’m considering here:<\/p>\n