My kids were pretty good on long drives. I'd take the middle bench seat out of the Dodge Caravan and they could sit on the back seat or with my permission lie down in the middle. My son often would sit up front with me. That was a useful vehicle, 5 speed transmission, cassette deck, pretty much optioned out for a 1985 vehicle, slow doesn't describe it.
I'd get annoyed on entrance ramps if some car ahead of me didn't speed up because I had no power to merge. Speed limits were 55 mph back then, that helped a bit, though traffic moved faster than that usually of course.
The other odd thing is mileage on the road was around 25 mpg, which was "OK" at the time, but hardly great. I finally bought an Olds minivan with that 3.8 L engine and an automatic, a larger heavier vehicle with a lot better acceleration and it got about 26 mpg highway. It had one electric sliding door which was a thing at the time.
