Not everyone loves road trips. I happen to NOT be one of them. I absolutely love them. The open road. The unexpected. The simple joys along the way that you miss if you fly into the metropolitan core of a city. And if you’re with a companion, there’s the reminiscing of prior years’ adventures and of course, car games.
On this most recent road trip from Los Angeles to Scottsdale, Arizona, we played what my dear friend & photographer, Shannon, and I call the alphabet game. We pick a theme and then alternate choosing words in that theme for each letter of the alphabet. With each new word, you have to repeat all the words prior, so for example, if your theme was produce, and the first three were “Apples, Bananas, and Carrots,” you’d repeat those before you going on to the next letter and word, “Dill.”
On past road trips our themes have been everything from cities and countries to animals and items you’d purchase during a bout of retail therapy. This trip, we upped the ante due to my personal frustration with having forgotten my iPod connector and having no radio signal, and chose a more challenging theme. Here’s the list of what we came up with. Who wants to guess what the theme was?
Airplane
Bathroom
Closet
Dining Room
Elevator
Floor
Garage
Helicopter
Igloo
Jersey
Kitchen
Lanai
Museum
Nook
Opera
Pool
Queensland
Raceway
Sauna
Treehouse
Underwater
Vortex
Waterfall
Xerox machine
Yurt
Zoo
I’ll be in Scottsdale for the week. It’s been a fantastic start to the trip. The Hermosa Inn is gorgeous. Just spectacular desert luxury. I’m staying in a casita that has a beautiful skylight over a seating area complimented by mahogany leather chairs and a fireplace that Hemingway would envy, and a four-poster bed that is sure to bring sweet dreams.
Dinner at LON’s tonight was fantastic — look for a full review coming soon… I’m thoroughly stuffed and am now going to “work off” dinner in the private jacuzzi under the stars.
Tags: Arizona, Desert Luxury, Hermosa Inn, LON's, road trip, Road trip games, Scottsdale
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