Like his character in the new comedy, "RV," Robin Williams said in New York he has planned road trips hoping to spend quality time with his family.
"I've never driven an RV, except for this movie, but I have a Land Rover, which is a big, long kind of safari car," he told United Press International. "But driving up to Tahoe with (my wife and kids) was always interesting; before iPods, when they were little. Before the portable DVD players. First, the duel for what radio station."
Joking about how seatbelts prevented him from reaching into the back set to keep the peace, as his own dad did years ago, Williams admitted: "You get kind of snarky after the first hour of bad traffic."
Now that his children are teens, Williams said he tries to discourage them from bringing technological diversions, so they can chat while traveling.
"The iPods are hard because they conceal them," he said
Williams said the trips always end up being worth the trouble.
"You do have these moments where you're back just as a group, as a family, having a great time and you're so mellow again that you're like, 'Oh, this is why we're together.'"
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