2 adults and 1 younger teen

We’re going on a two week road trip that’ll be fairly leisurely. Stopping by some parks and sights as we go and a few nights at our ultimate destination

I had my car recently serviced. It all checks out

I have a steam deck on the way! Any recommendations here for travel accessories? Or just in general?

We’ve all got devices and chargers and their respective blocks. I’m looking at a power inverter for the hungrier devices
I was debating bringing the oculus to give whomever a bit of isolation if they need; is there anything specific I’d need to do to use it where there’s no internet? I haven’t used it enough to be very familiar with most of its abilities

We adults have ps5s. Most likely won’t bring one. I’ve seen portable monitors that people use with a local device; does anyone have experience using one for remote play for the ps5?

And making sure we’ve got entertainment downloaded to our devices; obviously books and offline/non electronic entertainment will be brought, as well

I’m really looking forward to this and want to make it the best experience for all involved! I look forward to hearing your tips

Edit to add: the point of the road trip is to bury my grandfather. And I’m petrified of flying in the current state of the US

Since we HAVE to make this trip we’re trying to make the most of it by stopping by some state/national parks and other landmarks/pois during which we’ll be present. But there’s going to be LONG stretches of literally nothing exciting. Like corn fields. Many hours of corn fields. Most days are 6 - 10 hours in the car

  • roofuskit@lemmy.world
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    16 days ago

    Take your car to your trusted mechanic, explain you’re doing a road trip and ask them to look for anything that might be an issue.

    I do this before ever road trip and it has saved me a few times. The last thing you want is for problems to spring up during the trip.

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      16 days ago

      Yes I just did this last week. Amusingly I had something that I asked “hypothetically, if I’m driving to state in the near future, would you recommend I take care of that now?”

      Yes, I got my serpentine belt replaced and an oil change. My brakes are still in good shape. But they also did check everything out and I have another appointment next week to make sure the transmission is ok and get the AC looked at (diagnosticians were booked out until then)