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Need to use your laptop in your car? Don't purchase a pricey laptop stand for the passenger seat or shell out for a dashboard mount. With some creative DIY-action you can turn your cup holder into a laptop stand.

Mike Davis needed a way to use his laptop in his truck and have a nice stationary platform to put it on. Unfortunately commercial models ran upwards of $300. After scoping out the cab of his truck and doing some brainstorming he realized he could build his own stand and use the center console cup holder as a base.

With $30 worth of parts—mostly PVC pipes, fittings, and a sheet of plywood—and a single afternoon of work he had a laptop stand for his truck that holds his laptop so well it doesn't budge even when swinging the truck around corners.

Check out the full build guide below to see step-by-step photos and additional information. Have a unique in-car DIY hack like Mike's laptop stand? Let's hear about it in the comments.

It's easier to give into Value Meals and Cool Ranch Doritos on a long-distance drive, because your options seem so limited. A USA Today blogger and dietitian suggests snacks and meals that won't burden your road trips with guilt.

Elizabeth Ward offers suggestions on snacks you can grab from convenience stores or gas station stops that provide a mix of protein, carbohydrates, and don't offer more than 250 calories, like a 12-ounce container of V8 Vegetable Juice and 1 ounce of peanuts, or (personal, take-me-back-to-childhood pick) a single 7.5-ounce serving of Chef Boyardee Beefaroni, microwaved in the store, and a small apple. Ward also mixes and matches menu items from McDonald's, Burger King, Subway, and other highway regulars to add up 550-calorie meals that won't feel like sad moments of roadside desperation.

For more picks of fast food's healthier picks, check out Jason's roundup of the healthiest foods at commenter mainstays Your TomTom, Garmin, or GPS-powered phone may be more convenient than a map, but it won't always be there for you. Our road-trip-savvy sibling blog, Jalopnik, re-introduces us to paper pathfinders and the best ways to read them.

Sure, it sounds like a rant your grandfather can chime in on, but most of us probably aren't as familiar with how our roads are laid out and how maps correspond to them. Jalopnik offers little brain-expanders like this for the non-savvy travelers:

Mile markers, the little green and white numbered signs on the side of the freeway, start on the western or southern edge of a state and go up from there. Those mile markers correspond to the exit ramps and can be matched to the exits on the map. In between intersections on a map, there are often marked distances telling you how far it is between spans, freeway or not. Subtracting your entrance and exit on freeways and adding distances on highways and county roads can give you the entire distance of your trip.

Hit the link for the full map-tacular read-through, and share your own tips on getting up to speed with a multi-fold antique in the comments.

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