Stop. Just STOP. (Mild rant)

[astroNikon]

I envy your kid free trip!!! We're taking a family road trip driving from San Diego to San Francisco in June stopping overnight several times along the way.

We're doing Santa Barbara, to SF, to Napa. Will bring the 'ol D600 and 24-70 and 70-200 2.8 VC's.

You and the cats ?

 

[Nevermore1]

Well when/if you take a family on road trips, you can stop! And then your kids 20 years later will complain on some other forum about how their dad would annoyingly stop every 5 seconds and take boring photos, and how it was a wasted opportunity that they could have gotten to Portland by 3:00 if you hadn't.

No matter what you do they'll complain. I still give my husband a hard time about refusing to stop at the Grand Canyon for me while we were driving cross country on vacation (DC to OKC to SF to Portland and back to DC) because he wanted to get to San Francisco that night (truck driver mentality). I pointed out every exit to the park on the way. He still owes me a trip there...

 

[Steve5D]

I always tend to be Clark Griswald when I travel (Google that if you need to). I'm one of those people who loves to make good time.

Last year, though, I forced myself to stop during my cross-country trip. I even forced myself to drive 30 or 40 miles out of the way (say, to go to Devil's Tower). My trip consisted of some 5,700 miles, so a few miles out of the way simply couldn't be viewed as an imposition.

It was the single best 25 days of my photographic life...

 

[Nevermore1]

He made the trip to Devils Tower and Mt Rushmore but wouldn't stop for the Grand Canyon. I think he stopped because I was giving him such a hard time about the GC
It's been 9 years and I still give him crap about it!

 

[deveaushawn]

Why not retrace those trips and try to recreate the images your dad took? Would be very cool if you have kids of your own to bring along!

 

[JerryLove]

If there's enough light (that photo you've put up, which looks like a painting, appears at night); you might actually get the "out the car" shots with a fast enough shutter.

Just sayin.