My 1st babysitter was a former Hitler Youth instructer. My Dad was in the AirForce stationed in West Germany when I was born at Ramstein AFB. We lived off base in a duplex owned by my Babysiter/trainer. When I was 2 months old she would take me outside in the middle of winter daily to condition me to the cold.
As for long drives in the middle of nowhere, that's where I do my best brainstorming.