Road Trip Essentials: Fill Your Trunk with These Key Items

Don't leave home without your road trip essentials. Although it can be fun to shop for items in a strange town, you don't want to be left without a can't-live-without-it item after a long day of driving when you just want to get some rest.

Everyone's idea of key road trip supplies will be different. To one person, the list will include a good travel pillow. To another, it's wrinkle free travel clothes that let them look fresh and clean even after sitting in a car for eight hours.

And for still another person, it's a travel coffee maker that gives them just the right jump-start in the morning (and, more importantly, lets them avoid those mediocre-at-best hotel lobby brews).

We'll cover these topics. We'll also stress the importance of having a list of cheap motels, where to find the best discount luggage, how to buy car insurance online, the wonders of the Coleman road trip party grill, the ins and outs of cell phone roaming, and road trip snacks.

Travel coffee maker. Avoid bad road joe by bringing your own coffee-making apparatus with you. It's easier than you think.

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