On Avoiding the Inevitable Spread.

One year on the road. sitting on our assets. in a car.
I don't know about the rest of the world but, lately, every roadtrip I have taken of any significant length has a direct correlation to an equally significant amount of weight gain. Granted, I usually travel with my husband and we never try very hard to find even healthy food on the road, much less organic (our main staple having been Nacho Cheese artificially flavored COMBOS and Dr. Pepper) so, if we stick to our goal of eating only organic, locally grown food, then maybe we will already be avoiding the bigest pitfall of long hours of driving - the awesome and terrible snacks. Actually, my good friend, Marie-France, compiled some recipes for cooking real meals on the engine block of your car and bound them together as her offering for our trip. (God Bless the South.) but seriously. This is a year. And, although we won't be spending ALL our time in the car, I think we will really be doing ourselves a huge favor if we figure out some kind of plan for keeping ourselves physically as well as mentally challenged. What will that be?

OPTIONS:
RUN TOGETHER: Will my knees hold up? Will Ben wake on his own or never join us? Do we run in rain or terrible heat or bad weather? Will we suffer injuries bc of repetitive use of joints and no weightlifting? Will I get super bored?
BIKES: out - definitely bad for Mark's knees. Also we may not have space for bikes.
JOIN BALLY'S: They are all over the country but...Is this an environmentally friendly thing to do- drive to a gym where they use tons of energy to power machines for us to walk and run on? That's pretty much a no-brainer. NIX.
YOGA: Possibly, with DVD's or tapes, which will require consumption. Unless we get them as a gift. (hint.)
MY OLD-SCHOOL JANE FONDA AUDIO TAPE: Yes, that's right. I still remember most of the exercises from the original Jane Fonda workout tape that I worked out to as a teen. To this day whenever i hear the Jackson 5 song, "Can You Feel It," I remember the hot buns exercise where Jane encouraged us to feel the burn and i remember her trim thighs and her pink striped tank and her legwarmers and i think, "Yes, Jane. Yes I can."
TAI CHI: I would actually love to take just enough Tai Chi before we leave to have memorized a 20 minute set that we could easily do every morning. While not exactly aerobic (neither is Yoga), it would at least get our blood going and could be a great way to focus first thing every day. I will look into it.

That said, I will look forward to any and all advice for working out on the road. As well as any workout buddies along the way, in whatever state we're in. I am having a hard enough time just making exercise a habit here at home, and we haven't even left yet! Because the issue is really ME...The issue is Discipline.

Wish me luck.
No, wish me good discipline. and check back often to see how I fare. hehe.