When I was a kid, my mom would drive us from San Diego to Portland, Oregon every year. My dad rarely went...it was usually my mom, me, my brother, and my sister. God bless her for driving all that way with three little kids, because now that I'm a parent I realize how hard that had to have been! But I am so grateful for it...this was pre-screens, y'all (waaaaaaaay pre-screens), and I have some great memories of those trips. Now, I am not a hardened mother of the 70s and 80s, and I'm not…