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Your summer can hardly be considered complete with out a summer road trip. Here’s a list of ten things you cannot leave home without, and one bonus item you just might find revolutionizes your time in the car!

1. Music. happy, adventurous music that will keep you moving down the road. Bring CDs, your ipod, satellite radio, whatever it takes to keep you grooving all the way there.

2. A DVD player with kids’ choice movies. If you have kids in the back, this is really a must! I tend to limit my kids’ movie watching to half the trip or two movies, whichever is less. Really, after two movies, they are bored of watching TV anyway, so they end up fighting. When we’re not watching a movie, we play the license plate game, the alphabet game, read books, color, and tell jokes.

3. Good maps of your destination and roads along the way. Remember road trip season is also road construction season, so be prepared to navigate any detours with current maps of the area. Plus, you may find a scenic byway or other alternate route, but may not have time to risk ending up way out of the way.

4. Books on tape. For kids, or adults, books on tape allow you to be entertained together while still keeping an eye on the scenery.

5. A well stocked emergency kit and first aid kit. Don’t let a flat tire or cut finger ruin your trip. You might be able to help someone else out too. Remember to carry some food and water (for the people and the engine) plus an emergency blanket or two in case you are stranded for any reason.

6. A car ready for the road–be sure to have all your fluids (oil, power steering, windshield wiper, and antifreeze), your tire pressure, and your battery checked before you leave for any extended driving tour. Check your wiper blades, and replace them if needed. Have your tires rotated or replaced, if necessary. Check that your spare tire is inflated, and that all the pieces to your jack are in place.

7. Your cell phone and charger…duh.

8. Munchies. Whether the person sitting shotgun is passing out sandwiches from the cooler between the front seats or you stop and get out to eat at a restaurant, there is nothing like red vines and M and Ms to calm the road tripper’s restless soul.

9. A Camera. Of course you’ll take pictures once you get there, wherever there is, but don’t forget to take pictures along the way– at Tree in the Rock, Wyoming, standing on the Four Corners, in front of the giant thermometer at Death Valley, or wherever else you find yourself stopping to use the bathroom, buy more munchies, or just to stretch your legs.

10. Antibacterial hand wipes. If you’re traveling with kids, wipes are an obvious must, but even without kids, you are going to want to clean your hands after using that nasty gas station bathroom, or worse, an outhouse somewhere with no running water. Studies have shown that washing your hands is the number one way to keep yourself from getting sick, and let’s face it, no one wants to be sick on the road.

Finally, I add a bonus, the number 11 must have for a successful road trip; it’s something you may not have even thought about, but I think it could revolutionize your highway travel: the hitch mounted cargo carrier. I have to say that I have taken many a trip with my foot well and arm space crowded with things that wouldn’t fit in the trunk or the back of the van, and that’s not in the plan for the perfect road trip. Consider for a moment the ease and utility of a rack mounted to the rear hitch of your vehicle where you could put 3 or 4 suitcases, a cooler, most of your camping supplies, skis, bikes, even a motorcycle. You’re smiling right now, just thinking how convenient that would be. So, gather these essentials, and have a great trip! Wherever you’re going, may your road be smooth, your scenery amazing, and your companions worthy.

Tuscany, with all its excess keeps thousands of secret that will encourage people’s curiosity. All Tuscany citizens are mostly friendly. They are famous on giving the pleasure and welcome attitude make many foreigners feel its place like their own home. Tuscany will never disappoint any guest ever.

About the buildings, Tuscany is the number one. They keep their historical construction for each building and site. It is suitable for people who sake of relaxing and calm. This region is fulfilling of ancient building and it spreads peace. You may also see Tuscan homes and many facilities to be reserved. They rent some houses to share Tuscany living sensation toward guests. And their dishes are awesome also, the high savor of Pisa, Seven Wonders of the World. Many kind of food, like pasta, pizza, pastries, salad are available for you. It’s beverages also. Tuscany wine tour is served for all the fans of wine.

You may think about the price, but you can take long breath for that. Tuscany provides many types of holiday. If you are the backpacker, they provide standard price even the lowest one. You even can still get any discount from the rental. But if you have enough money to be spent, so you should not worry your money is spent uselessly.

Did you know that hermit crabs live in shells like snails and turtles, but they weren’t born in their shells, and their shells don’t grow with them? Instead, they have to find new shells to live in as they get bigger. In this way, hermit crabs are like humans. Well, at least they’re like human families. As our families grow we have to add on to our house or get a new one that is big enough to fit our needs.

Hermit crabs live over a range of land that extends from the deep ocean floor to right up on the shore. You’ve probably seen them on a trip to the beach, but I’ll bet you’ve never seen a hermit crab without its shell before. It’s not a very common occurrence, though it does happen sometimes. When hermit crabs get too big for their shell, they have to leave it and look for a new one. The shells they look for are ones that have been discarded by another hermit crab or other sea creatures. Similarly, humans don’t always make a new home for themselves when they need one, instead, they will buy a home that has been used and “discarded” by other humans.

When it’s time for a hermit crab to move into a new home, he will go out looking for one while still in possession of his old home. He carries it on his back, of course, until he finds a home that will fit his needs. When he finally finds the home he’s been looking for, he will crawl out of his old shell and into the new one. For a brief moment, he is unprotected, but he is soon in the safe security of his new shell, and all is right again.

When humans decide it is time to move, they go out looking for a new home that will fit their needs while they are still in possession of their old home, just like a hermit crab. When they finally find the home that they like best and that satisfies their needs, they will sell their old home and travel with all of their things to their new home. For the short period of time between when they leave their old home and enter their new one, they are not really in danger like hermit crabs are, but if they aren’t able to move into their new home as soon or sooner than they have to leave their old home; or if they have to travel a long distance to move into their new home, they may feel unprotected for a while, until they can get safely settled in their new home.

Sometimes the reason a family or individual has to move out of their old home before they are able to move into their new one, is that there is a great demand for the home they are in, so they can get the price they want for it, but there is not enough supply of new homes for them to move into. Sometimes the supply is smaller than the demand for homes in the world of hermit crabs too. There are only so many shells that have been discarded by other sea creatures, and there may be, at times, more hermit crabs needing a new home than there are empty shells. When this is the case, hermit crabs may have to fight for the same shell. Humans do this too, though it’s never the kind of fighting you think of as “fighting.” Instead, it is decided based on the amount of money each party is willing to pay for the home. When crabs fight for a shell, the strongest crab wins, when humans compete for the same house the human willing to pay the most wins.

We’ve talked about hermit crabs and humans moving based solely on their need for a bigger home because they’ve outgrown their old one. This is really the only reason hermit crabs move, unless their old home breaks or gets stolen from them. Humans, however, have multiple reasons for moving. They may wish to live in a different area because their job has moved, or because they want to live near family. They want a prettier house or a nicer yard. They may move because they want to live in a different state or country, or because they need to go to a college that’s in a different state or country.

In order to buy a new home, humans, unlike hermit crabs have to find a way to finance their new home. Mortgage companies can help you with an Aurora mortgage loan, your Draper Utah real estate, or your Casper Wyoming real estate.