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Music for your Road Trip

When we took our last vacation, there was a LOT of driving involved. A LOT.

ROAD TRIP!

Everyone knows you need proper music for a road trip to get you in the mood. And we were pretty sure that radio reception was going to be spotty in a lot of those areas. We took it upon ourselves to compile a list of songs for the drive. Every day we started driving, CD number one would get thrown in, and we'd all get moving to "Rollin', Rollin', Rollin'" the theme from Rawhide. Silly, but it works. The rest of the songs cross genres, but all are related to travel or the road.

Feel free to give us suggestions... We would love to expand the list.
Create your own CD's... or load the songs onto your Ipod.

Meanwhile, enjoy!

Traveling tends to magnify all human emotions.
Peter Hoag

Rawhide

Get 'em up, Move 'em out!

I love the Rawhide theme song... it is a perfect get-up and get-moving tune. This for me dates back to a bus trip I took in College... every morning the group leader would blast his cassette of Rawhide over the stereo system.

It got us moving...

Track Artist Album  
Rawhide Frankie Laine Television Themes 16 Most Requested Songs

An Incomplete, but Fairly Broad List of Music for Travel

Road Trip Music!

Your'e going on Vacation, so start with -
The Go Go's Vacation!!
then check out the rest...
The list runs the gambit of musical genres... give them try...
some hard stuff that requires cranking up...
some country stuff to make you feel as one with the countryside...
some softer stuff that allows you to feel the mellowness of travel...
And some quirky stuff that may bring back a memory or two.
Plus... all of my music mixes end with the B52's... Love Shack
they just do
enjoy!

Track Artist Album  
Slow Ride Foghat Fool for the City
The Long and Winding Road The Beatles The Beatles Box Set
Born to Be Wild Steppenwolf All Time Greatest Hits
Running On Empty Jackson Browne Running On Empty
Radar Love Golden Earring Moontan
Cars Gary Numan The Pleasure Principle
On the Road Again Willie Nelson 16 Biggest Hits: Willie Nelson
Wide Open Spaces Dixie Chicks Wide Open Spaces
Fly Away Lenny Kravitz Lenny Kravitz: Greatest Hits
America Simon & Garfunkel The Best of Simon & Garfunkel
Somewhere Over the Rainbow / What a Wonderful World Israel Kamakawiwo'ole Facing Future
California Dreamin' The Mamas & The Papas The Mamas & The Papas Greatest Hits
I've Been Everywhere Johnny Cash Unchained
Take Me Home Country Road Israel Kamakawiwo'ole Facing Future
Come Away With Me Norah Jones Come Away With Me
Carolina In My Mind James Taylor James Taylor: Greatest Hits, Vol. 1
Heads Carolina, Tails California Jo Dee Messina Jo Dee Messina
Fun, Fun, Fun The Beach Boys Sounds of Summer - The Very Best of The Beach Boys
Vacation The Go-Go's Vacation
You've Been Driving All the Time Martina McBride Wild Angels
I Get Around The Beach Boys The Beach Boys: 20 Good Vibrations - The Greatest Hits, Vol. 1
Go Your Own Way Fleetwood Mac Rumours
Carefree Highway Gordon Lightfoot Gord's Gold
Running With the Devil Biker Brothers Band Guitar Hits - Volume 2
Running Down a Dream Pickin' On Series Pickin' On Tom Petty: Heartbreaker - A Bluegrass Tribute
Holiday Road (Live) Lindsey Buckingham Live At the Bass Performance Hall
Driving My Life Away The Countdown Singers 20 Best of 80's Country
Panama Van Halen 1984
Locomotion Ultimate Party Mixers Ultimate Party Mix
Never Been to Spain Three Dog Night The Complete Hit Singles
Cowboy Take Me Away Dixie Chicks Fly
Fast Car Tracy Chapman Tracy Chapman
Midnight Train to Georgia Gladys Knight & The Pips Platinum & Gold Collection
Route 66 Chuck Berry Blues
Wheels Restless Heart RCA Country Legends: Restless Heart
Save Me, San Francisco Train Save Me, San Francisco (Golden Gate Edition)
You Can Sleep While I Drive Melissa Etheridge Brave and Crazy
Carefree Highway Gordon Lightfoot Rhino Hi-Five: Gordon Lightfoot - EP
Take Me Home, Country Roads John Denver John Denver's Greatest Hits
Cry On the Shoulder of the Road Martina McBride Wild Angels
You're Not In Kansas Anymore Jo Dee Messina Jo Dee Messina: Greatest Hits
City of New Orleans Arlo Guthrie Tribute to Steve Goodman
Last Train to Clarksville The Monkees The Best of the Monkees
Sentimental Journey Doris Day 16 Most Requested Songs: Doris Day
Take Me Home Phil Collins No Jacket Required
Canyons & Caverns Shawn Mullins The Essential Shawn Mullins
I Can't Drive 55 Sammy Hagar Unboxed
Los Angeles X Los Angeles
Love Shack The B-52's Time Capsule

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Road Trip!

Glacier and Yellowstone

Our most recent road trip was a drive from California up through Oregon and Idaho to Glacier National Park in Montana. After spending a few days there, we headed south to Yellowstone. After Yellowstone, we cut through the Grand Tetons and south to Kemmerer, Wyoming, home of Fossil Butte National Monument. Then it was west on the 80 to home.
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Why run the risk of wrecking your Ipod or MP3 player? You know you want to blast the "ride of the valkyries" as you blast down the rapids....

well, at least you want to know you could if you wanted to.

Another Road Trip

Bryce, Zion, Grand Canyon

A few years ago we took a great trip through the Southwest. We started in the San Francisco Bay Area, and headed west on the 80 across the top of Nevada and Utah to Dinosaur National Monument. After a few great days, we backtracked a bit, then headed south to Delta Utah for a trilobite dig. Then south again, and a little east to Bryce Canyon National Park. Then south again to the North Rim of the Grand Canyon. A big hole (not as interesting to the kids as the Kennecot Copper Mine outside Salt Lake City... that big hole had giant trucks and explosions!!!!). Slightly north and west to Zion National Park. I loved Zion.... Then ViVA Las Vegas for a few days at the Mandalay Bay Resort. Whew! Clean clothes and we washed off a bit in the pools. Then across the Mojave desert and north to Sequioa to see the really big trees. Finally, up the 99 to home. Quite a journey.
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Go Old School... Make a Mix CD

Like the Mix Tapes we made as kids...

Remember those days? Before Ipods? You put together a Mix-tape for a friend... capturing songs from the radio or record player and setting up that perfect song list for yourself and your friends.

Now you can make a Mix CD... just takes a few simple tools.

This is what we for a lot of our trips... it's fun to do, and you can loan them out.
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Give us your favorite road song.

c'mon add yours to this list

We all have songs that rock our cars as we motor the highways whether it is on the commute to work or on long holiday vacations. Get your tunes in our list. Do it!

  • MysticTurtle Apr 23, 2012 @ 1:47 pm | delete
    I have a traveling music CD. It's all upbeat songs portraying strong women, by women. Time to get it polished up...I'm heading out this weekend, driving across the country to CA.
  • Upon-Request Apr 12, 2012 @ 1:41 pm | delete
    Wide Open Spaces and On the Road Again are two staples I've always had in my Road Trip Music list.
  • DarleneN Apr 12, 2012 @ 8:59 am | delete
    "Roll Me Away" by Bob Seger. We ALWAYS play this one at the start of any road trip! "Took a look down a westbound road, right away I made my choice..." My absolute FAVORITE, but then I love just about anything by Bob Seger!
  • DarleneN Apr 12, 2012 @ 8:59 am | delete
    "Roll Me Away" by Bob Seger. We ALWAYS play this one at the start of any road trip! "Took a look down a westbound road, right away I made my choice..." My absolute FAVORITE, but then I love just about anything by Bob Seger!
  • TheLifestyleChanger Feb 28, 2012 @ 9:33 pm | delete
    I love your selection and will keep it in mind for the next big drive.
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