The road trip I found it easiest to come to terms with is Zombieland because I felt that it portrayed a road trip similar to what I believe a true road trip to be - a learning experience. The survival situations that all the characters find themselves in causes them to learn something not only about how to survive a zombie apocalypse but something about themselves as well ( I won't go into detail, we've all seen the movie and can think of such instances).
I do find it hard to recreate such a journey to meet my tastes though because I feel that there are two ways to think about "my trip"; realistic in the zombie apocalypse sense, and realistic in the here and now sense .
Part of me agrees with Jake in that I enjoy envisioning my actions if zombies did rise from the dead. Would I go around kicking zombie ass, or would I run and hide. If there really were hordes of zombies out to eat my brains my trip would be pretty lackluster. I would simply make a run to McBrides, load up on everything I could and go relax behind the 12ft tall game fences at my family's ranch eventually coming out due to boredom in order to lay waste to some zombies.
However, if I really wanted to create for myself a learning experience, a survival story that is somewhat plausible then I would choose two of my friends and go backpacking in Alaska only taking knives, a compass, the clothes on our backs and a GPS. We would map out our route and do our best to survive along the way.
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