How to Pick Where to Eat on a Road Trip.

December 15, 2013 ♥ Posted in: Journal, Travel by Kristina Horner

I have been truly terrible at keeping up with my blog this month! I was doing so well for awhile there, and then NaNoWriMo just crashed its way in and wrecked my whole flow – and then, well,  December just sort of speaks for itself in terms of getting off schedule. The holidays are in FULL SWING, and the road trip I was on since Monday didn’t help at all.

But that’s not to say the trip wasn’t totally amazing. I will walk you through a few of the highlights, right now.

Joe and I hit the road early Monday morning but it wasn’t until about midday that we hit snow for the first time. I was a bit worried about getting my Fiesta through the snowy mountainy part of the drive, but it was never really an issue.

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I am a rather seasoned road-trip connoisseur, so I filled Joe in on the art of finding good places to eat when you have no idea where you are. All you have to do is look for diner names on the “Food at this Exit” signs, bearing a couple of rules in mind. First of all, you never pick a place you already know. You’re out exploring the open road! Subway can wait! No, when you’re on a road trip, you should always find new places to discover. The best way to pick them (when in reality you have absolutely nothing to go on) is to make sure they match one of two criteria. Rule #1 is to find a restaurant with an actual person’s name (like Rudy’s, or a Glenn’s, or Tracy’s). If the name sounds friendly, the food will probably be delicious. The friendlier, the more delicious. It’s direct variation, folks. Second is to pick a sign that’s written in cursive (or some other cute font). The cuter the font, the more adorable (and subsequently, delicious) the restaurant will be. For example, here’s one of the places we ended up eating at by following this standard set of rules:

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Cutest font! And it was delicious! And they had amazing blackberry cobbler!

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On the first day of our trip, we made it all the way from Seattle to Redding, California. It was a pretty intense day of driving, but it was made much easier by the beautiful sights as well as the massive amounts of Nightvale Radio we listened to. Joe and I learned you should probably only listen to 3-4 episodes of Nightvale Radio in one sitting. We learned this by listening to at least 12.

The next day we were back on the road where we made a stop-off outside of Sacremento to visit the offices of Wyrd, the makers of Jetpack Unicorn. Which is now available on Amazon, by the way. Our next stop was San Jose, but that may need to wait for its own blog post. I may or may not have accomplished a bucket list item there.

Thanks for sticking with me while I’ve been so crazy busy! There will be many more updates on this blog in the coming days, and in the mean time, please go catch up on my YouTube channel and gaming channel! We just started playing the Adventure Time game and it’s a lot of fun, so don’t miss it.

How’s your December going? Tell me one fun thing you’ve done this month in the comments, and I’ll be back with another post tomorrow.


5 Comments

5 Comments

Katie says:

I like your method of choosing a restaurant, I’ll have to keep that in mind for my next roadtrip. One fun thing I’ve done this month is go to Disneyland!

Cassidy says:

Great method haha! Well I haven’t actually done this yet, but I’m going to see the nutcracker! I’m the daughter of a ballet teacher and I’ve never seen it. I’m not sure how that happened… Glad to see you back!

Mary says:

Good tips, most of my friends are really unadventurous when it comes to food so it’s hard for me to convince them that we need to find places that aren’t in every city. The best part of my December so far was this afternoon where I attended a Harry Potter themed scavenger hunt at the mall, it was the best!

Kayla says:

I wonder if those rules would still work in England… I celebrated my 21st birthday on Wednesday which was awesome, and have been catching up with all my friends who have just come back from Uni for Christmas.

Yay, you’re back posting! I KNOW WHAT YOU MEAN about December speaking for itself. Also, NaNoWriMo. 🙂

Hmm, something fun in December… I’ve been in the thick of huge amounts of work, but I did blow it all off one afternoon to make tamales with a friend. I’d never made tamales before. It was a blast.

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