After a bit of talk over drinks tonight, we decided that 2009 was going to be the comeback year for board games, y'know, what with "these tough economic times" and all. But it got me thinking about traveling, and how important games are to traveling. Not vacationing, but "traveling".With traveling, there is assumed downtime. Time where you are stuck in a particular place longer than you would have liked because of a bus schedule. Or maybe you just finished your book quicker than you thought, and all of the magazines the hotel has are in German. Or perhaps your dinner is just taking longer to come out of the kitchen than you thought.
Seasoned travelers are always packing a deck of cards at the very least. Do yourself a favour and learn more than two card games. This will help, believe me. A friend of mine loved backgammon - a game that she had played with the bare essentials of a board scraped into the sand on a Thai beach, and some malaria pills.
Here are a few of my favourite traveling games:
- Card games: not just limited to regular playing cards, but what about old favourites like Uno?
- Scrabble: sure, a little unwieldy, but there are travel versions available . I must admit that I am coveting the travel version for my purse just to take down the pub.
- Dice games: sure don't take up much space. Yahtzee is probably the most obvious one, but poker dice are pretty awesome too.
- Connect 4: I admit that this is purely the result of being stranded on a beach with no reading material (other than in German - I wasn't making that up), but with a lone Connect 4 game. We played it so much that we started in on Connect 5, Speed Connect 4 etc. I bought a key-ring version for my husband once we got back, and even that got a work-out.
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