Now that I have established the importance of this device, I think I can adequately convey our horror when it broke. (However, after about 6 hours of a long road trip, all bets are off.) The kids do look out the window, color pictures, and interact nicely with each other in these “intermissions”. My wife and I do force the kids to turn off the DVD play for about an hour between movies. You’re probably thinking that I am a horrible parent by deliberately zombie-fying the kids with a TV screen. This ‘stasis mode’ even increases the duration between bathroom breaks! Amazing technology…
#03 expedition navigation system with dvd movie
They are effectively in stasis for the duration of “Despicable Me 2”, or whatever movie you decided to put in. If you are so lucky to have a rear entertainment system (in our case, a roof-mounted DVD player), it’s like magic. For anyone who has traveled long distances with small children, you appreciate the value of the rear DVD player. After a few hours of this wonderful togetherness, you contemplate giving everybody Dramamine, ‘just in case’ they get carsick, while secretly, you’re just waiting for the side effects to give you some peace and quiet. You’ve experienced the joy of breaking up fights over meaningful disputes such as “she’s touching me”, or “she’s crossing the line”, or even debating where “the line” is located. When traveling with with small children, you might had the privilege of answering “Are we there yet?” over and over and over. The journey is typically about 9 hours, (with gusts up to 11 hours) if everything goes well. On average, we seem to drive back to Indiana about once a quarter to visit family and friends. One of these adjustments has been the distance that we travel to visit family. So far, this has been a great change, but we’ve had to make some adjustments. The upheaval in our lives was to accommodate a job change. In 2013, my wife and I up-rooted our family from a comfortable home in Fort Wayne, IN, and planted them in the far east city of Syracuse, NY.