Road trip stuff failures

One of my random memories from childhood include a book that may probably still be in the attic--it involved "Things to do on long road trips". Written in the days before you could entertain kids for hours with some Disney DVDs and probably designed for the unfortunate souls who cannot manage to read a book in a car (especially if you're in a place with bumpier highways--I remember how in Louisiana the road would be a systemic ka-thump-ka-thump-ka-thump as it ran over concrete sections.

Many of these things don't work properly on Interstate highways if at all, so any trip involving that was out of luck. These often included road sign findings and other businesses, but the way Interstates are designed you'll only see large commercial developments (malls and their ilk, including chain restaurants) if anything at all. There was also using stoplights by watching the other light turn red so you could accurately say "CHANGE" and watch the light turn green again.

I got the feeling it was made in the UK (no Interstates, a much smaller place to travel over all) since it was a UK publisher and had other idiosyncrasies like lights being "amber" instead of "yellow".

The old quote "Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel across the country from coast to coast without seeing anything" from Charles Kraut does work here.

Anyway, just putting this out there in case anyone remembers it.