2 adults and 1 younger teen

We’re going on a two week road trip that’ll be fairly leisurely. Stopping by some parks and sights as we go and a few nights at our ultimate destination

I had my car recently serviced. It all checks out

I have a steam deck on the way! Any recommendations here for travel accessories? Or just in general?

We’ve all got devices and chargers and their respective blocks. I’m looking at a power inverter for the hungrier devices
I was debating bringing the oculus to give whomever a bit of isolation if they need; is there anything specific I’d need to do to use it where there’s no internet? I haven’t used it enough to be very familiar with most of its abilities

We adults have ps5s. Most likely won’t bring one. I’ve seen portable monitors that people use with a local device; does anyone have experience using one for remote play for the ps5?

And making sure we’ve got entertainment downloaded to our devices; obviously books and offline/non electronic entertainment will be brought, as well

I’m really looking forward to this and want to make it the best experience for all involved! I look forward to hearing your tips

Edit to add: the point of the road trip is to bury my grandfather. And I’m petrified of flying in the current state of the US

Since we HAVE to make this trip we’re trying to make the most of it by stopping by some state/national parks and other landmarks/pois during which we’ll be present. But there’s going to be LONG stretches of literally nothing exciting. Like corn fields. Many hours of corn fields. Most days are 6 - 10 hours in the car

    • TehBamski@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      10 days ago

      Adding to this. Even if you’re not in the pictures, take them. Psychologically, pictures can ‘jog’ our memory and bring forth details, emotions, etc. that we experienced during and around that time.

      I found this to be a good read on the topic. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/longing-for-nostalgia/202401/looking-at-your-photos-can-be-uplifting-enlightening-or?msockid=05ea5f1c09a3646b2d67494a085b656b

      MAKE SURE YOU BACK THEM UP! I can’t stress this enough. Those memories can be lost forever if you’re not careful and set up and use an image backup system of some kind. And please, please, please. Don’t just save them to one device.

      Long story short: A good friend of mine and his parents would periodically take photos of us while we were over there gaming, hanging out, and celebrating things over the years. Unbeknownst to us, our friend was only saving them to his laptop. Nowhere else. Not even to an email account. So when one of his ‘newly’ made “friends” borrowed his laptop to make some music on it. It went missing for over two months and my friend tried many times to get a hold of this dude to get it back. Finally, my friend got hold of him and just begged for him to just let him grab all of the images and irreplaceable things from it. My friend didn’t care about the monetary loss. He just wanted those photos back. The dude told him that he had pawned it a few weeks ago. It was gone. Nothing to do and nothing to save. Years of us having game nights, hanging out, and celebrating a few birthdays… gone forever. So… BACK, UP, YOUR, PHOTOS!