Joecy Posted August 18, 2014 Report Share Posted August 18, 2014 Hi there, I'm back from camping! You probably can tell from the topic that I was miserable from the long drive We drove 5 hours to the Upper Peninsular in Michigan, where all you see on the road are trees and rocks, rocks and tree, and some dead trees. Nothing to do on the drive, I can't read because I get dizzy. I also want to keep the driver, my husband accompanied so he wouldn't feel like just being our driver. So, we listened to Sirius, the radio tailed to car all the way, until I can puke on those repeating top 10 pop songs! Even listening to those songs so many times, I still can't sing along like my teen daughters do. Somehow, those English lyrics couldn't registered, or make sense to me. How I wanted to listen to Chinese songs when driving. I miss listening to my favorite Chinese songs, singing along and feeling free like a bird... So I checked the 100+ channels on Sirius, there is Spanish speaking channel, even Korean, but no Chinese! Aaaaarghhh! I understand driving long distance in the US is very very common, but most Chinese are still in the habit of taking bus or train. Then we can play cards and eat lot of sunflower seeds on the bus/train. What do you listen on a road trip? What do you do to kill boredom if stuck in a car for 10 hours? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dnoblett Posted August 18, 2014 Report Share Posted August 18, 2014 I know what you mean about XM radio, I did email them once about the lack of Chinese content, even told them that WAY more people in the world speak Mandarin than Spanish. I use to drive truck for a living for a period of 4 years, always enjoyed the change in scenery. Audio books and talk radio was what I listened to. If you have an iphone or ipod touch, there are many Chinese audio book apps, that you can download the mp3 files, and then playback, several ways to connect it to a car stereo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
warpedbored Posted August 18, 2014 Report Share Posted August 18, 2014 Welcome back! We missed you. My wife usually sleeps most of the way. She listens to her Chinese CDs and takes pictures out the window. We stop and get out if we see something interesting. Occasionally we take a 425 mile trip to Idaho to visit friends and family. When we do we stop up on the summit of the Blue mountains and have a picnic at the rest area. Another good way to pass time is to listen to books on CDs or watch a movie on your laptop. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amberjack1234 Posted August 18, 2014 Report Share Posted August 18, 2014 Well for me I just love to drive as long as I have a car that I enjoy driving. I enjoy looking at the scenery. We have recorded about 12 CD's with maybe a couple of hundred songs both english and Chinese that we both enjoy. We also have an MP3 player hard drive in our car radio system that store thousands of songs. I don't think that Chinese people are accustomed to travel by automobile but that is changing very fast. The younger Chinese generation are being brought up with cars in the family. For you it probably will take some getting use to and perhaps you may never like it. I don't know. As for the wife she had just as soon stay at home and NEVER leave not even to go into the yard. I'll bet that in the 14 years that she has lived here she has been in the back yard no more than a dozen time. By-the-way welcome back we missed you and the other girls. I know that Christineli is on a trip to her family reunion so she should be back very soon. I hope she enjoys herself immensely. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomas Promise Posted August 18, 2014 Report Share Posted August 18, 2014 http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=2GQSwMCHJNU 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dennis143 Posted August 18, 2014 Report Share Posted August 18, 2014 Welcome back! We missed you. My wife usually sleeps most of the way. She listens to her Chinese CDs and takes pictures out the window. We stop and get out if we see something interesting. Occasionally we take a 425 mile trip to Idaho to visit friends and family. When we do we stop up on the summit of the Blue mountains and have a picnic at the rest area. Another good way to pass time is to listen to books on CDs or watch a movie on your laptop. My Leiqin usually nods off like a baby once we're underway driving somewhere. Stays occupied pretty much like your Bing, Carl. I try to make frequent stops to stretch about once an hour to break the monotony. Truth is, the older I get the less I care to sit behind a wheel driving for hours or most of the day.Leiqin wants to go to Vegas to see friends. Last time I rented a large van and ~10 of us went to Vegas. I've decided that if we go again we'll take a casino bus and let the casino pay for most of the travel expense. I'm with you, Joecy, take the bus. And, welcome home! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mick Posted August 18, 2014 Report Share Posted August 18, 2014 Glad to have you back, Joecy! Hope you enjoyed the top of Michigan. It has been many years since I have been up to that part of the country. Shortly after we moved back to America from China, we took a long road trip from Tennessee to South Florida. Li spent the time sleeping, doing needlepoint, talking to me, taking pictures, and things of that nature. Since then, we have traveled to Memphis three times from our home. It is about four to five hours and a very boring, tedious drive. Now that Salina is older (turned ten in May), she gets a tad restless if cooped up in the car too long. If we drive for over two hours, we usually try to find a place to stop and stretch for awhile. On one trip, we stopped at several Cracker Barrel locations, not only to eat, but to let Li and Salina look through the Old Country Store, etc. Once again, it is great to have you back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chilton747 Posted August 18, 2014 Report Share Posted August 18, 2014 My wife and I take frequent road trips. We do not like listening to the radio so mostly she talks and I listen. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joecy Posted August 19, 2014 Author Report Share Posted August 19, 2014 I know what you mean about XM radio, I did email them once about the lack of Chinese content, even told them that WAY more people in the world speak Mandarin than Spanish.Very cool that you actually sent them a email! I appreciate that! Interesting that big as XM, they haven't done anything with Chinese speaking population. I actually found a press release they had in 2005, said they would have a Korean radio, might launch a Chinese one in 2006. But nothing happens... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joecy Posted August 19, 2014 Author Report Share Posted August 19, 2014 Welcome back! We missed you. My wife usually sleeps most of the way. She listens to her Chinese CDs and takes pictures out the window. We stop and get out if we see something interesting. Occasionally we take a 425 mile trip to Idaho to visit friends and family. When we do we stop up on the summit of the Blue mountains and have a picnic at the rest area. Another good way to pass time is to listen to books on CDs or watch a movie on your laptop. Very romantic to stop and have a picnic! We have been munching on snack bars and skip meals, just trying to get to places. Got to tell my husband to SLooooooow down from time to time, just to enjoy the journey. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joecy Posted August 19, 2014 Author Report Share Posted August 19, 2014 Well for me I just love to drive as long as I have a car that I enjoy driving. I enjoy looking at the scenery. We have recorded about 12 CD's with maybe a couple of hundred songs both english and Chinese that we both enjoy. We also have an MP3 player hard drive in our car radio system that store thousands of songs. I don't think that Chinese people are accustomed to travel by automobile but that is changing very fast. The younger Chinese generation are being brought up with cars in the family. For you it probably will take some getting use to and perhaps you may never like it. I don't know. As for the wife she had just as soon stay at home and NEVER leave not even to go into the yard. I'll bet that in the 14 years that she has lived here she has been in the back yard no more than a dozen time. By-the-way welcome back we missed you and the other girls. I know that Christineli is on a trip to her family reunion so she should be back very soon. I hope she enjoys herself immensely.Great idea to have Chinese and English burned in a CD! So unfair for me to listen to English songs all the time, time for my husband to learn some Chinese tunes!! I was at home for 2 weeks, didn't go out much, didn't meet other people face to face, only talk on phone. I thought I would be fine cause I kept talking to people on phone, but by end of the 2nd weeks,I started to cry. I wasn't sure what's wrong, thought I just missed China, miss my friends, miss going out with them. Then I realized I was very depressed not being able to see people face to face. I think people, especially women need to be connected and be social. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joecy Posted August 19, 2014 Author Report Share Posted August 19, 2014 (edited) ur.... I see the problem of having the husband driving for 10 hrs all by himself, and it's pouring rain.... Edited August 19, 2014 by Joecy (see edit history) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joecy Posted August 19, 2014 Author Report Share Posted August 19, 2014 I miss you guys too! You are all so warm and it DOES felt like back home again!! I'm still struggling on balancing my time between child care, my little none profit magazine adventure, exercising to take care of myself and having food on the table. Now I have to go grocery shopping. Just decided to plan dinners for a week, so I don't waste time on grocery shopping. Please bare with me if my response is slow. But I'm trying to be here everyday in the workday Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doug Posted August 20, 2014 Report Share Posted August 20, 2014 Well now since you have the kids, you need to think up some stuff. Of course teens have their own ideas. We used to sing along, basically me teaching them some really stupid stuff. Also, IF POSSIBLE, get a car with a bench seat in the front. Makes life more happy. Oh the days when the lady could sit next to her man... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joecy Posted August 21, 2014 Author Report Share Posted August 21, 2014 Hi Doug, Is this the bench seat in the front? (i'm sorry for the size of the pix) Do you still remember the really stupid stuff you taught them? http://assets.blog.hemmings.com/wp-content/uploads//2012/10/1963Impalabenchseat_1500.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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