“It made road trips almost tolerable.”
I know what you mean. We had relatives all over the United States and we took huge road trips all around the country every two years. Upstate NY to Idaho, down to Albuquerque, and over to Fort Worth. We also kept track of license plates and wanted to be first to collect all 48 (later all 50). I’ve still got a couple of scrapbooks from those trips.
On your road trips, did you play “Zip!” with horses and graveyards?