Final Essay Proposal

In the summer of 2015, right before my freshman year of high school began, my dad, my brother, my dad's uncle (PapPap), my dad's aunt (YaYa), and I drove from Boise, Idaho, all the way up to Alaska and back. At the time, I did not have a smartphone on which I could play games, and I don't remember taking my Nintendo DSi with me, nor do I remember taking my iPod nano (7th generation). Now, when I travel places by car or similar means of transport, especially for such a long journey, I like to listen to music. My YaYa, though, hated listening to music while driving, so this trip I was forced to either talk to my family (something that causes a lot of anxiety in me), read the books I brought (which made me carsick more often than not), or sleep (which screwed up my internal clock).