Music to Drive By

There are tons of photos to download and sort, sand to empty out of suitcases and many, many thoughts and memories to collect. I expect that I'll start blogging a snappy little recounting of our marvelous adventures next week. But it is Friday and that does require a video and that put me in mind of this little number.

The Child loaded her iPod with a bunch of music for the trip (half of which somehow never came up whenever we asked her to put it on "shuffle"...although, oddly, there was never a dearth of Miley Cyrus. Hmmmm).

Road trip music is a very subjective thing. Certainly, whenever there was some Springsteen it was appropriate. Likewise, the three of us found Abba's "Greatest Hits" and the soundtrack to "Moulin Rouge" to be particularly invigorating. (Funny story: we had the latter on in the car while driving to breakfast with Sling. "That girl has a pretty voice," he opined. "That's Nicole Kidman," we said. "What!?! She gets to look like that AND sing?"

But, and this will not come as a surprise to most of you, the songs that really got me going were from the "British Gold: the 80s" double album collection. Mommy does like her synth-pop-pretty boy tunes when cruising down the freeway.

Duran Duran "Hungry Like the Wolf"