Four for the Road : How to survive holidaying with teenagers

Does a family who travel together, stay together? One mother finds out... 2 teenagers, 1,600 kilometres, 7 days and a Mercedes Benz... what could go wrong? We are a family of travellers; I have always thought I had the wanderlust gene and hoped that I had passed it in to my children. I love travelling; it is all I have ever wanted to do. I dream about it, I plan it, I spend my savings on it. This obsession is greeted by my family with varying degrees of interest. So my announcement of the news?we were driving around England and Scotland in a few months? time?was met with slightly less enthusiasm than I'd hoped. ?You?ll see,? I said. ?It will be an adventure?. Can a road trip be fun and memorable?  ?You cannot discover anything in life without first getting lost.?