So Crazy, It Just Might Work

"You told me not to drive, but I made it home alive, and you said that only proves that I'm insane." - Billy Joel

Somehow it sounds slightly less than sane on paper.  We want to pack a pre-teen boy and his teenage sister into a car with their parents and drive them across the country for approximately 4,000 miles.  That's 68 hours in the car, over the course of two weeks.  Not to mention flying back home with at least two airplane phobics.  We want to do this in the same year that we are roped into paying for an extremely expensive Disney World band trip, and without courting complete financial ruin.  We want to spend part of the time camping with two kids who have never even slept in a tent before.   We want to follow routes that were historically famous for death by dysentary (at least according to my elementary school computers). We want to travel the width of the country, with a quick little jaunt from top to bottom for good measure. Why on earth do we want to do this? 

I'll have to get back to you on that.