This past weekend I took a minor trek from NY to DC that spanned about 230 miles. This pretty much amounts to four hours of sleep, fours hours of good music or a variation of both. If you're smart or if you're any normal person who gets tired of looking at trees and ever-changing license plates then you'd be sleep. But if you happen to come across a good album or combination of songs that cause a disruption in the thought pattern of tree....tree...car...bus....homeless person...CVS...tree, then you're in luck.

For me road trips are fun  because more times than others I end up listening to music that I don't normally give the time of day on my ipod as well as songs I haven't heard in a minute. And because I'm on a road trip I always feel the urge to let an entire album play just because. I've never been on a road trip with just friends, but if I ever do I will assign myself as thee road trip selector and designate each hour to a different category; live, hip-hop, R&B, X-mas, Gospel. You get the picture.

There's just something about road trips that allow you to think and what better mechanism than music to aid you in your limitless thought? Anyway, I've traveled a few places in my lifetime and I can and will always remember what I was listening to. Honestly I believe it's music that makes every instance so memorable. When you're traveling and experiencing new things it's so much easier to remember those times when you were in the company of a great song. Here are some of the traveling instances I remember and the songs or albums I happened to be listening to.....btw these are so memorable because they were on REPEAT Heavy!!

Car Travels in Philadelphia & Chester Pennsylvania 1997: Men in Black Soundtrack

Car Travels from Como Zoo in 6th Grade 1999: TLC Fanmail

School Bus Ride in 8th Grade (EVERYDAY) 2001: Aaliyah-Aaliyah & Alicia Keys- Songs in A Minor

Car Travels with my mom in Minnesota 2002: Elton John's Greatest Hits & The Eagles-"One of these Nights"

Road Trip from Minnesota to New York 2003: Bow Wow- "The Don the Dutch" & "The Movement"

Plane Ride from Minnesota to Atlanta 2004: Usher-Confessions

Car Travels with my mom in Minnesota 2004: Dido-No Angel

Plane Ride from Minnesota to DC 2005: Incubus "Megalomaniac"

Road Trip from DC to New Orleans 2008: Layla Hathaway- "Forever, For Always, For Love"

Road Trip from NY to Burgaw NC 2009: Evelyn Champagne King- "Love Come Down"

Road Trip from NY to DC 2009: Alicia Keys- Songs in A Minor

Of course there's more, but my how time travels and comes back around.

If you find yourself embarking on a road trip and want a bit of diversity in your music life check out Road Trip America's list of their favorite road trip tunes.