College Road Trip, a 2008 film directed by Roger Kumble and distributed by Walt Disney Studios, is based on Melanie Porter (Raven-Symoné), a college-bound student, and her father, Chicago police chief James Porter (Martin Lawrence), who cannot bear to let his daughter leave home. Melanie is ready to enter a new stage in her life. James, though, would rather she stay close to home by attending Northwestern University. Despite this, Melanie is offered an interview with her college of choice, Georgetown
Fort Bragg: My First Road Trip When you are a teenager you reach a certain point in your life when you want to be independent. You get this feeling that you want to do something on your own to prove you can. When I was seventeen, in the fall of 2001, I had that feeling that I needed to do something on my own. I needed an adventure to show everyone that I was old enough to be on my own for once. I needed something exciting and new. I talked to my friend Annie and we came up with a plan for our
My Sister, Niece and Nephew have taken it upon themselves to drive across the country this summer (my brother-in-law has signed on to assorted portions of this summer sized junket).niece and baby gator That desire to put a car on the road and aim it along a cardinal point is a peculiar - I'd like to say uniquely American - trait but it isn't just an American taste. It's pan cultural, like recipes for bread or dough fried in oil; An insight of my brother-in-law Al - we live in a world united not by
A family road trip isn’t a family road trip without a few disasters thrown in to balance out the fun. No, sadly they can’t all be idyllic. But luckily for most of us the rose colored glasses will blur the unpleasant memories in the future. You’ll then look back on the trip and sigh with happiness. Unfortunately, our last trip can’t be blurred with rose colored glasses no matter how thick the lenses. You see, I recently part of the family road trip from Hell. Hell, yes, Hell. I was under the impression
took a road trip to New Orleans and then to Austin, Texas. I honestly love long car rides and listening to music and eating fast food for a whole entire day. I remember arriving in New Orleans around 8 PM and the sun was almost gone and the streets are really narrow so there was just enough room for the sun to fit in between the houses. The atmosphere is different. It just made me feel more relaxed and carefree. Even though it was night time it was still really warm and humid. My whole trip in New
Road Trips are normally a great time for me and my family. Until March 15 th 2015 when the road trip home ended very bad. My 18 year old brother and his two friends, Austin, and Colton were going to a concert up in Springfield Missouri. Me, my friend, my mom, and Colton's mom all drove in a separate car, then the boys, because they couldn't stay in a hotel by themselves. The concert was on Saturday night and we were leaving Sunday morning. Sunday rolls around and it's time for us to head home because
camp and spend some time with him just before we left him again two days later. The starting of the 3 hour and 15 minute trip was uneventful. The first stop of the road trip was at Walmart in town to pick up food along with some Pepsi drinks. We then proceeded down the highway, it wasn 't too long until I plugged in my iPod into the car’s audio system the car we had for this trip was a rental so I had taken full advantage of the audio system, by playing only my music. The song
other cars, some of them shinning as if they were polished with gloss, while others were so dirty that their break lights could barely shine through the old dirt and grit. I was seated in the passenger seat of our 1999 Ford Explorer and eyed the road and the sights of the highway carrying us through Atlanta, Georgia. On the side of the highway were lovely green meadows that grew off the side of small hills, speckled with yellows and whites. As the bend slowly straightened out, in the distance stood
The Cross Country Challenge: Surviving my Long Road Trip Adequate preparation for any trip can prevent frustration and aggravation along the way, as well as making it more productive. Summer is the perfect time for getting together with friends and hitting the road for an adventure. In the summer of 2015, me and a couple of friends, Alex Banuelos and Hyeseong Chae decided to go on a road trip across the United States. I met Alex and Hyeseong when I was in the Army and stationed at Yongsan, South
Road trips are known to be fun adventures. When someone says they are going on a road trip people expect them to go and see amazing places and then come back. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson, Travels with Charley by John Steinbeck and On the Road by Jack Kerouac are about road trips but these trips are not about the adventure. Duke from Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Sal from On the Road and Steinbeck from Travels with Charley all go on road trips because of the American drive
One hot and humid summer The Parks family decided to take a road trip to California. The family consisted of a father, a mother, a ten-year-old boy named Joey, and his six-month-old sister named Trinity. The family was from Houston, TX and they were planning on driving the spacious, luxurious, and monstrous sport utility vehicle that would be comfortable for the family. Mr. Parks mapped out the route he would be taking for the trip. He estimated that they would be driving one thousand miles to
they needed a little more spice in their life. Realizing that they were almost twenty-one and had never breached their comfort zone, they knew a road trip was in store. As June came to an end the nearly grown men finished exams and planned to leave for their escapade the first day of July, also being the 1st day of break. They made a pact to keep the trip a secret until their return, for the main reason that their parents wouldn’t approve. If their families had any question as to why hey weren’t coming
just out to play the field. When she accidentally runs into the man of her dreams she blows him off. When she finally realizes that she is in love with him, Courtney Rockcliffe (Christina Applegate) and Christina take a road trip to get him back. Running into many disasters on the trip they end up walking in on Peter Donahue’s (Thomas Jane) wedding. Incredibly embarrassed, she miserably returns home. After making a complete fool out of herself, she still ends up getting what she wants out of life: A
open book. She warns Bailey, her son, about the Misfit and his crimes and in doing so, she foreshadows coming events. Rising action: Overlooking the grandmother's warning, the family decides to pursue their trip as planned. When the day arrives for the family to depart on their road trip, instead of arguing, the grandmother climbs in the car before anyone else, just as June Star predicts. "She wouldn't stay at home for a million bucks," June Star said. "Afraid she'd miss something. She has to go
on this road trip, my mind seemed to unwrinkle, to breathe, to present to itself a cure for a disease it had not, until now, known it had” (Elizabeth Berg, The Year of Pleasures). In this novel, a woman takes a road trip to escape the pressures and hardships of life. I believe this quote is very true when it comes to taking a road trip. When I hear the words “road trip,” I automatically think of the new adventures I am going to experience. This leads to the question: How can road trips give you
wits takes place every time I step into a living room, a movie theater, a library, an automobile. The summer after high school, five buddies and I set off in a van to watch baseball games at sixteen different parks across the continent. A dream road trip for six baseball crazed dudes. During one sweltering afternoon in Philadelphia's Veterans Stadium, the game tied in late innings, I passed out completely. As a rule, chests were painted to spell out the home team as we, imposter rabid hometown fans
Must try road trips in India How amazing it would feel when you don’t have to plan anything for a trip beforehand like booking tickets, booking hotels and other stuff, and all you do is just pack your bags and set out on the roads for an unpredictable journey, full of surprises to a destination least known to you. Isn’t it adventurous in itself ? Such unplanned trips are so enthralling that you will find routes more mesmerizing than the destination itself. Such trips make a lifetime’s worth of memories
brought the luggage down and we’re still waiting for mom and dad like dead puppets, and I’m still wishing for a light fixture. Like the bubble-shaped one that hung in my bedroom about two thousand miles away, before I turned 18 on this family road trip. Before this second act, when my parents stopped flinching their puppet master wrists from above the stage, and so I finally cut my own strings, just to fall flat on my plastic face and deflate like a balloon. The door clicks open. What can I
with just one road trip that changed my thought about how road trips could be a horrible experience. Over the summer my family and I were going on a road trip to Canada, but many things had happened to us. Before we head to Canada, we had to go to the airport to pick up some of my family members that came from India. So on a friday night, around twelve o’clock we went to the airport to pick them up. When we got there we meet each other and then left the airport. That’s when the road trip started. All
The end of the road At the end of a journey, it’s always strange to look back on the roads traveled and places visited. It brings with it a sense of nostalgia, a feeling of time passed with the inability, or perhaps unwillingness to go back. I felt like this at the end of the road trip I took this time last year from San Francisco to Alaska. I knew that most likely I’d never again visit those quirky villages in the depths of the Yukon Territory, or stand in the middle of the Alaskan Highway