Hey guys it’s Ro! As many of you know, I am on tour for much of this month,
road tripping from town to town. And I wanted to make a video about my favorite
Road Trip Essentials!
The first category, and my favorite, is snacks!
When I’m on the road I like to stop at new places and check ‘em out for
a big meal, but, it is a good idea to have some snacks to keep you fueled.
And if you’re ever treking through the woods there may be a long stretch
without any stops, so it’s a good idea to have some things to nibble on!
One of my favorite snacks are almonds, I love almonds, it’s a good source
of protein, they’re super yummy, and you guys, you know I got a sweet tooth,
so, you can get almonds covered in different things, you can get them covered
in sour cream and onion flavor. These ones are covered with a creme brûlée
shell, so they’re super good! And then these ones are
Italian black truffle almonds!
For the second snack, I have a fresh apple, you can bring any fruit that you like.
I really like apples because they’re high in fiber and, they travel well!
And you can learn how to juggle! If you have more than one.
I’m pretty good!
Ah! I always like to bring water, I know that this is a really weird water
bottle, but I love it because it’s flat.
They just fit really well into laptop cases or luggage cases, they aren’t
big and bulky, they don’t take up a lot of room in the car.
That does it for snacks, I usually keep it really simple when I travel.
Next, let’s talk about entertainment!
When I’m traveling I always bring my laptop, wherever I go.
I don’t know if you guys do this too, I just put a gold case on it so it
wouldn’t get banged up while I travel. And, the reason I bring my laptop
and I don’t just use my phone is because I do a ton of emails and I type
faster on a keyboard, and, my parents are so sweet, they always
watch Cookie when I go out of town, and, this may seem silly, but I’m gonna
be real with you guys. I miss her so much and every night, my parents
are so kind, they let me Skype call her and I want to see her silly
face as big as I can. So I bring my laptop, so I can just see Cookie
face, everyday!
And then, You always gotta bring a pair of headphones.
And here I got a little pair of headphones, and yes, they’re gold, they match
my laptop. Because, some people like to match their outfits, I like to
match my technologies!
I also like to bring an iPad mini. Here I just play with a lot of
different apps and games, it just has a little bit bigger screen than
my phone, and it isn’t as big and bulky as my laptop.
So, I always bring this little guy.
And of course, I always have my phone with me, wherever I go.
I am always on my phone, whether I’m on Twitter or Instagram, or I’m
texting friends, I am just always using it.
There’s a lot of apps that I use when I’m traveling, but the app that
I use the most is probably Audible, because there’s a lot of downtime
when I go on road trips, especially on this tour, so I’ve been reading a lot,
I’ve been catching up on reading. I asked you guys in the other video what books I should
check out, and I got a lot of responses to check out the book Matched,
so that is what I did.
For those of you who aren’t familiar with the story of Matched, you guys
explained the basic premise to me without spoiling it, but, it’s basically
a book set in a futuristic world, a dystopian society where when you turn
17 you are matched with your life partner, through a big, like, computer
like algorithm that tracks, like, your personalities and DNA
and its basically like if there was a super smart Match.com or like a
super smart Tinder, and when you turned 17 it was like, here’s your soulmate.
And that’s, that’s the society, well I guess this gal, there’s a glitch
and she’s matched with, I think, more than one person.
I really like futuristic, sci-fi type stories and this one is a little
bit romantic, so I thought, daw! For the romantic in me this would
be pretty cute!
I really like listening to books on tape when I’m traveling because, for
me, I have difficulty reading, I have a learning disability.
I’m dyslexic, but even if you aren’t dyslexic, it’s really fun to listen
to a book on tape when you travel. You can just sit back, listen to
a story, or some of my friends even get motion sickness when we’re
traveling, so they can’t read in the car because they’ll start feeling
a little queasy, so they can listen to books on tape and listen to
stories on tape and I just think it’s really neat!
If you’ve never used Audible or listened to books on tape before, it’s really,
really easy, there’s a little app, you download it, and then about any book you
can think of is available to download. And here’s my library, the
homepage right here is your library here’s all the books, and, you can see
at the top right here, I am getting into Matched!
If you guys are interested in trying Audible you can go to
audible.com/rosannapansino, there you will get a 30 day free trial and
1 free book. Again, that is Audible.com/RosannaPansino, if you’ve
never tried listening to books on tape you might like it!
Ooooh! You guys, next Road Trip Essential, music!
A road trip would not be complete without a music playlist!
I don’t know about you guys, but every time I go on a road trip I
love to have a themed music playlist. And because we’re going on a cookbook
tour, I thought, I gotta have a food related playlist!
So I downloaded a bunch of songs that had food in them, even if it wasn’t
necessarily about food, I put them in this list.
We’ve got: Pour Some Sugar on Me, Tooti Fruti, Sugar Sugar, I Want Candy
and of course you guys know that I put Dawin’s Song Dessert in there, it is
number 1. It’s at the top of my food music playlist for this road trip.
In the description I will put a list of my food music playlist, please let me
know in the comments if there’s any songs that you think of that have food in them,
that I don’t know about because, there are so many out there!
I will keep adding to this list, I will keep it going!
The last thing that I had to bring, for like technological gadgets and
entertainment was my selfie stick. Oh my gosh you guys!
Some people make fun of the selfie stick, but I love them because I have
super short arms, and whenever I am trying to take a picture with my friends,
like this, like everybody get in!
It cuts off right here every time.
It’s like, hey, hey everybody!
So, I love these, if you guys have never used a selfie stick before, they’re
super easy, they just….
Then you just stick the phone right on the top, and then you plug
this little guy in there. And now it is connected and you can adjust it
however you’d like. And there’s a little button right here and this will
take the picture. I love selfie sticks for traveling because it’s really
easy to do a group shot. Like in front of a restaurant or a funny
sign you see, or just anything along the way of your travels.
And you won’t be cutting off anybody’s heads!
You may have gathered by now that I really like technology, so when you’re
traveling you always gotta bring your screen cleansing towelettes,
or as I like to call them, tech wipes!
You can wipe off your phone, laptop, or iPad, or even your sunglasses to
keep those lenses clean!
Now, onto some safety and sanitary essentials. I always like to bring
a little first aid kit, so if anything happens on the road I am prepared.
And inside there are some of the basics. There’s a cold pack, bandaid,
a little thing of Neosporin if you get any cuts, gloves, tweezers, and inside
here are little packets of advil and tylenol. In case you’re on the
road and you get a headache, that can be extremely distracting, and unsafe
if you’re driving. So it has a little bit of everything in here, just in case!
Next I have a little travel size kleenex, I like to keep these in case you have
a runny nose, you have a little tissue nearby, or you know, you just have a…
Bat in the cave!
That means a booger!
If you have an issue, here’s a tissue!
Oh my gosh you guys! This is something I personally use a lot, I use
these everyday, I keep one in my purse as well, it’s a Tide to Go Pen.
If you spill anything on yourself it’s a little stain remover pen.
You just open it, apply it to stain, and pretend it never happened!
These things are life savers. I got these, a lot of people ask me what these
are and they are hand cleansing wipes. You can get little towels or
the sanitizing gels that they have at stores. But I like the little hand wipes.
They’re good when you’re on the go and you want to have a little snack,
but don’t have anywhere to wash your hands.
And, a girly thing, I always keep one just in case, because you never know,
you never know when your girlfriend might need one.
Lastly some beauty essentials that I like to bring. The first one,
sunglasses! Not on cute, but I think technically these could be in
the safety category as well. Because when you’re driving you don’t want
sun glaring in your eyes, you want to be able to see well, so something
with UV protection.
Boom! I’m gonna… This goes in both categories.
Also for your eyes, I have a sleep mask, obviously don’t wear these if
you are the one driving, I found this one at REI.
I really like this face mask, not only because it’s really soft, but
because it has this lip, right here at the bottom, so that when you put
it on, it makes a little gap for your eyes. So it’s not sitting flat
on your eyes, and it won’t mess up your makeup.
I know that’s a super girly thing, but, it’s real, look at this!
So when you put it on, its just creating a little lip right here,
so if you’re wearing mascara, it won’t smudge your mascara.
In this little pouch, it comes with little earplugs so you if you want to
take a snooze and rest while other people are listening to music or
doing whatever, you can!
I don’t know about you guys, but I always like to bring sunscreen.
A lot of people don’t think to use sunscreen when you’re in a car or
on a road trip, but UV rays go right through glass windows, whether they’re
up or down, so I always like to bring sunblock.
You know what you guys? For some reason, whenever I’m on a road trip, I’m
always on the side of the car that has then sun. Do you guys know
what I’m talking about?
Now, let’s talk hair! I have a lot of it, and when I’m traveling I like
to keep it simple. I know this looks so funny, but this is my little
travel brush, it saves a lot of space! I don’t like bringing big
brushes when I’m traveling. And this brush I found at Sephora,
and I love it because it has longer bristles that will take out my tangles,
and then it has shorter bristles down here, so that if I’m blowing out my
hair, it will get all of ‘em, and I can shape it to be whatever I want.
And, I like to keep a little bottle of dry shampoo, this is a little
travel size, but you don’t need a lot, a little goes a long way!
And this is really good if you’re on a long road trip and you can’t
wash your hair every day. Say you can only wash your hair every other
day or every other, other day.
Before I went on this big cookbook tour, the longest road trip I had
done before was 18 hours, and it was so nice to stop at a rest stop
about half way through and just freshen up, and I used some dry shampoo.
You just spray it in your hair, it helps take a lot of the moisture
and oils out of the hair and it makes you feel like, ah! Fresh hair!
And then this little guy helps you smell fresh! Sometimes when you’re
traveling in a car with a lot of people it can get a little muggy.
So, I like to keep a little travel size perfume, if no one is allergic
these are safe to use.
And, I like them because they’re just travel size. You can just twist off the top,
they have a little ball here at the top, and you can just roll just a little
amount on your wrist, boop-boop-bopp!
Whenever I’m traveling, for some reason, I always get a hangnail, or
my nail chips, I don’t know why this always happens, but now, I come prepared!
I found this cute little guy, he’s a heart little Emoji face!
And it is a travel sized nail kit, it’s adorable, you just zip him open,
wee-oop! And then you have all the essentials, in case you get a hangnail,
a chipped nail, anything. You don’t have to sit there for hours and hours
and hours and try not to mess with it. You can handle it!
And my very last beauty road trip essential is Panda’s Dream, he’s so
cute! Look at him! Doo-doo-doo-doo-doo!
I found it at Sephora and I love this, it’s just a little stick like this,
and then you put it on underneath your eye. It moisturizes and cools right away
underneath your eye. It’s really good if your eyes are puffy, which happens
to me because I get tired on really long road trips, and, little panda
helps me out so that I don’t look like him! And don’t have dark circles underneath
my eyes! Thank you panda! You’re welcome Ro!
Oh it’s, oh my deals!
OK!
My last road trip essential is wearing a set of comfy clothes, when I
travel I like to be comfortable, and so, I’m wearing a really cozy,
light-weight shirt, that is soft and stretchy, and you can layer it,
you can put a tank top underneath it or a jacket over it.
I like wearing outfits that you can layer because the weather can change,
especially when you’re driving from town to town and through different
states, it’s just good to be versatile!
And then for pants, I really like to wear yoga pants, or I have been wearing
a lot of boyfriend jeans. I love boyfriend jeans because they’re really
relaxed fit, they’re really loose, they don’t pinch when I’m sitting
down or curling up in a ball, they’re just super comfy, so, I’m wearing some
boyfriend jeans and then, slipper boots!
That’s right guys, slipper boots!
It’s winter time and my toes always get cold in the winter, so these
keep ‘em nice and roasty-toasty.
Snug as a bug in a rug!
Alright, that does it for my favorite Road Trip Essentials, let me know in the comments
down below what your favorite top 3 Road Trip Essentails are.
And, if you know of any food themed songs that are not in my food music
playlist, please let me know, I would love to check ‘em out.
And a big thanks to Audible for teaming up with me on to make this video,
heart you guys!
I hope you found this video helpful, buh-bye!
And safe travels!