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Road Tripping with Teenagers: A Survival Guide

The good. The bad. The Ariana Grande perfume. Everything you didn’t know you needed for a sane drive with teens.

Kimberly Harrington
Airbnb Magazine
4 min readMay 30, 2019

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Illustration by Bene Rohlmann

When you’re heading out on a road trip with adolescents, don’t forget to bring everything, including a little emotional baggage! Here is a sanity-saving checklist to get you through long drives with teens.

☐ Teenagers

☐ Travel mugs

☐ Travel attitudes, depending on what we’re talking about when we talk about “travel attitudes”

☐ A road map, but for keeping a conversation going with teenagers

☐ A road map, but for navigating out of the “stop looking at me like that”/ “like what” struggle

☐ An actual road map, so you can remind your kids of the roughly 100-year age gap between you

☐ Pretending not to notice how genuinely excited they seem about hitting the road

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Kimberly Harrington
Kimberly Harrington

Written by Kimberly Harrington

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