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I haven't done this as a mom, but we did this as kids with driving across the country each summer. Long days in the car. My mom was very prepared, and we had lots of things to keep us busy. Watching her with my nieces and nephews, I realized she trained us to be good car passengers. "Look out the window and see if you can count the cows!" and things like that.

If you can break the day up, I say to go for it! We would leave reallllly early, before the sun was even up.

I think it is totally do-able, but I see how it is intimidating.

I would think if you can break it up to let them stretch and get out of the seats it's doable! Hard but doable

I only have one LO so far, but we've done a 14 hour road trip at 3.5 months and a 22 hour, 2 day road trip with her at 13 months. I was surprised by how well it went. The 14 hour trip we drove straight with breaks every 2-3 hours. We leave around 3:30-4am to get a good stretch in while they're still sleeping so that we've made decent progress by the time the frequent stops begin. That also means that for the longer trip, we made it to our halfway/resting spot by the mid afternoon. We took her to the children's museum in that town when we got there so that she could blow off steam and so that the day wasn't a total loss for her. It went well enough that we're looking at doing it again next month (19 months). That said, I'm just as nervous as I was last time!

@Beebug: we just drove from Ottawa to Summerside, PEI and then back again a few weeks later with our 9mth old and big black lab. It went remarkably well. I second the suggestion of leaving really early in the morning to get a good start in on the drive. We planned it so our first day of driving was longer than the second day, which I think helped all of us mentally!

Oh, and Cheerios and other snacks plus water was very helpful. As was a CD of Robert Munsch reading a few of his stories!

Just before Cape Breton? Antigonish??? (I'm an StFX grad)!

@Beebug: ha, me and your husband probably have allll kinds of mutual friends! My dad grew up just outside Antigonish and I still have family there!

We did this with 1 child and it doable.
1- I sat in the back with him A LOT
2- we had to stop and sleep (baby needed a bath and to get out of his car seat!)
3- bring snacks and movies (LO was 5m so we didn't but now at 21m, we would)
It wasn't pretty all the time but we got there and back! I'd try to configure the car seats in a way that makes room for you guys to go back there and sit with them if they need entertaining.

I think you are crazy! But we aren't car people and I wouldn't want to drive more than 3 hours with my two LOs! Good luck!