One sanity-maintaining tool we used on our 12 hour road trip was (as usual) music. I’ve recently discovered Sufjan Stevens, and managed to obtain 9 tracks to listen to on the road. We played them almost on repeat the whole trip, and did not get sick of them.
He uses so many different instruments and pays tribute to so many different musical styles, that you can hear a song differently each time it plays.
+100 scene points for me!
I totally introduced you to him.
You just…took awhile to catch on.
=P
Its true — in fact, I even stole a couple of his songs from you when I was rescuing your hard drive 😉