We did exactly what you shouldn't do...we drove straight through the night. By the time we got there (and home) we were utterly exhausted. But, driving at night was the best thing we could have done, as the kids slept like logs for 8+ hours of peaceful driving.
During the day, we had a wonderful rotation of movie watching, stopping to pee, Mieke screaming (and puking. Yeah. Fun.), stopping for gas, stopping to pee, stopping for food-despite my hope to avoid fast food, we ended up eating almost nothing but fast food both ways, as it was an opportunity to get the kids out of the car.
Now, as for the actual drive. We went through eastern Washington (been there, done that, was just as boring as the other times I drove through), Idaho (mountains ho!), Montana (hills and mountains and then hours upon hours of wide empty fields), South Dakota (fields. That's it, I swear. Oh and more tourist attractions then they had people), Iowa (an entire state of road construction. And an exciting detour due to the interstate being closed down, at 3am), Missouri (I won't lie, I slept through Missouri), and then a bunch of other states that looked like green, grass, treey areas, slowly moving into more green, but with lots of that wonderful loving plant, Kudzu. Eventually we made it to NC (mountains) and into SC. Where we discovered that Mieke was very much constipated. "Hi, we missed you, Mieke needs to poop!" Yep, thats us.
I'll finish this later. I'm hungry :D
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