So I am of on a road trip of sorts in a little over a month. I will be driving from Portland to South Bend, Indiana to attend grad school summer session...then off to NY to visit some family...then to Phoenix, AZ where I am will be pursuing some dreams for the next year or two...

For the most part I will be traveling alone so needless to say I will need some good...and encouraging tunes to get me by. I am looking for stuff that is positive...and will promote good time and encourage reflection on all of the stuff (good and bad) that has happened over the past year.

Currently I have a great selection of BarlowGirl, Matt Maher and U2 songs that I rocked out to on my WPPI road trip...and I have started a list below of others to add. I am also going to make a CD for a group of ladies that I am speaking to about taking road trips on your own (no kids, significant others...etc).

Thanks for your help...and maybe I will run into a few of you on my trip...

Road Trip Tunes List:

1) Unwritten - Natasha Bettingfield
2) Anyway - Martina McBride
3) Feels Like Today - Rascal Flatts
4) Wide Open Spaces - Dixie Chicks
5) What A Beautiful Day - Chris Cagle
6) Live Like You Were Dying - Tim McGraw
7) No Rain - Blind Melon
8) Beautiful Day - U2
9) Video - India Aire
10) Life Is A Highway - Rascal Flatts ( I like their "country" version )
11) Put Your Records On - Corinne Bailey Ray

Thanks!!!

Runnin' Down a Dream - Tom Petty
Get Out the Map - Indigo Girls
Iowa - Dar Williams*
Almost anything by Bob Dylan (ditto Johnny Cash)
September When It Comes* OR Rules of Travel - Roseann Cash (since we're on the Cash kick)
Neighborhood 1 - Arcade Fire
California Stars - Billy Bragg & Wilco
Homecoming - Vienna Teng*
The Boxer - Simon & Garfunkel
Harrisburg - Josh Ritter*

*I know you're looking for positive...these are rather melancholic, but still great road trip songs. I'd list a lot more but looking through my iTunes playlist I realized just how much I like depressing/melancholic/nostalgic music...

See my buddy Jon Shain
He is a fantastic singer/songwriter from Chapel Hill N.C. Making my favorite Road Trip tunes.

I have been listening to a lot of music lately. well more than normal (and that is a a lot)

Some of my fav. is

best of Tom Petty
The Postal Service
Death Cab For Cutie
Pictures Can Tell
Nelly Furtado
..

That should do it for now.

My favorite "change in my life" music is anything by Jimmy Buffet. His tunes are always on my best road trip mixes.

Also anything by Lyle Lovett.

K.

I forgot to check this after I posted it...but since I am leaving this Friday I better get my mix together. Thanks so much for your suggestions!

"Blessed" by Brett Dennen--really anything by Brett

or anything by Joshua Radin

I love all Modest Mouse, but I find the album "This Is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About" especially fitting.

boys of summer
in GODs country
no sleep til brooklyn

U2 -The Joshua Tree - The Entire Album!Anything by Lyle LovettJohn Gorka - New JerseyDeath Cab For Cutie - Plans and TransatlanticismDavid Gray - A Century EndsIndigo Girls - 1200 NightsPoi Dog Pondering - Poi Dog PonderingJohnny Cash - Live AT Folsom PrisonBob Dylan - Blood On The TracksGuillemots - Through The WindowpaneGlen Hansard and Marketa Irglova - Once; The Swell SeasonKT Tunstall - Eye To the TelescopeBen Folds Five - The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold MessnerBeth Orton - DaybreakerEverything But The Girl - Everything But The GirlMassive Attack - ProtectionBeastie Boys - Ill CommunicationG-Love And Special Sauce - The Electric MileGo!Go!7188 - Parade Yuzu - SumireYonder MOuntain String BandThe White Stripes - Icky ThumpThe Killers - Hot FussKate Bush - Hounds Of LoveJurassic 5 - Power In NumbersJeff Buckley - GraceElliot Smith - Either/OrDevotchka - How It EndsSorry, I get carried away sometimes...Oh! And The Smoky and The Bandit Theme song...for when you need to get that smoky off your tail..

Oo I forgot ANYTHING by Wilco!
..Ok, I'll stop...or will I??? Evil laughter ensues...

Pearl Jam - MFC from the Yield album, about driving

Yield is currently in heavy rotation for my listening though, so I think the whole album rocks.

major points for pick California stars.how about anything by anything by the Band and Neal Young, the stones' 'exile on main street' must be played entirely.If/when driving through the desert, get the metal out & play Judas Priest's 'Point of Entry' and pretend your the road warrior. At night in th emiddle of nowhere, play Kashmere by Led Zeppelin.+1

Colbie Caillat (new favorite)
Jon McLaughlin
Matt Wertz
Dave Barnes
Jimmy Needham
Cartel
Nickelcreek
Relient K
Stevie Wonder
Keane
The Fray
Leeland