If you're looking for an activity to soften a long drive, I recommend an extravagant Mix CD Challenge! Our trip was from Arlington, Virginia to Durham, North Carolina. The challenge was simple: invent two album names and assign them to other people on the trip. Each person takes the album names they are given, contemplates for a while, stirs up a vision, and creates the perfect mix for such an album name. The results can be stunning and add a whole new dimension to the music you once thought you knew. While I can't share our concoctions so easily, the album names should reflect how we made four hours speed by in a flash: