Diary of a Wimpy Kid - the Long Haul by KINNEY JEFFA super hilarious storybook, Diary of a Wimpy Kid – The Long Haul depicts the account of Greg Heffley’s experiences as he goes on a road trip with his family. The book illustrates a series of instances that are punctuated with a lot of cringey moments, a runaway kid, and a piglet who wouldn’t leave them.
During Greg’s school summer vacation, his mom announces that the entire family will be going on a road trip the next day. There is a total of five members in Greg’s family, including his parents, his elder brother Rodrick and his younger brother Manny.
All of them pack their bags, and the next day, they set out on their adventure in their minivan, with a boat towed at the back of it to carry extra luggage. They scoot to their backyard, clear the junk from the boat, shoo away the raccoons hiding inside, clean it up, and then tie it to the back of their minivan, bundling the rest of their luggage in it. At last, they set into motion, and start their road trip.
Greg, who sits in the back seat of the van, feels utterly bored without the aid of any entertainment video games, gadgets, or electronics. On top of this, his mother is determined to make this trip an educational adventure. So, she puts on a tape of Spanish language lessons on the car radio, which freaks him out.
He wonders when they might get to stop at a restaurant to eat something tasty, but then their mom hands each one of them a paper package containing homemade meals she had prepared with healthy food items. So, no restaurant for Greg either.
They stop at a cheap motel to spend the night. The family has taken only one room in the motel, a room that is totally nasty. Both Greg and Rodrick go berserk at this, so they leave the room to have a hot tub bath in the motel. When they reach the hot tub spot, they find a family of kids already squirming inside. They wait and wait some more, but the kids don’t seem to be moving from there. Wracking with frustration, they return to their room.
Greg has another obstacle that prevents him from falling asleep. There is a nasty smell coming from somewhere. He thinks it’s oozing from a dead mouse somewhere. But later on, it is revealed that the smell was coming from his elder brother Rodrick’s socks. The next day, they visit a carnival and snack on tons of fried butter sticks. Coincidentally, there is a competition going on in the carnival for the “foulest socks.” Hilariously, Greg, from his past experience, suggests Rodrick to participate in the competition. Rodrick participates and wins it too, unsurprisingly.
Meanwhile, Greg’s toddler brother Manny wins a Spanish language competition in the carnival. The winner’s prize is a little pig. His mother tells them that they don’t want to keep the prize. The people there are enraged, and so they have to load the pig along with them in their already-stuffed minivan. They empty their water bottle cooler and toss the pig inside it. As Mr. Heffley drives, at one point the cooler tumbles down and pig falls on the van’s floor. As pigs’ nature, the pig makes a mess of the stuff inside the van. In another instance, the pig bites Greg’s toe finger.
The family stops at another motel for the night, a nicer and cleaner one than the previous one. This time they take two rooms. In each room is a snack minibar. The pig wakes up during the night and eats up all the snacks from the minibars of both rooms, which costs them a whopping big money in their hotel bill.
At last, they decide to get rid of the pig. On the way, they donate the little animal to a pet zoo. But Greg’s youngest brother, Manny becomes furious at this, he had apparently become too attached to the little animal. He tries to run away from the car to retrieve the pig.
The following day, on the way to the beach, Rodrick’s giant bubblegum blasts a hole in the van’s roof. In an instance, when Rodrick is driving the car and their car is on the bridge, they spot a seagull outside. Greg tosses bits of a snack for the bird, but the bird flutters atop their car’s roof and through the hole bursts inside. The situation becomes chaotic as the bird starts banging its wings in order to get out of the car. Greg is reluctant to part with the packet of his favourite snack as seagull snatches it from him and to their relief, flies out of the car.
All this time, Rodrick had pressed the gas pedal of the car by mistake. Their car runs out of gas and a mechanic nearby tells them that it’d take four to five hours to repair. Besides, they end up losing their mobile phones and credit cards in an adventure park they visit where Greg loses the key of their locker.
They don’t have money to pay for the mechanic, so they ask for a lift from a car passing by. Miserably enough, the people in the car can only understand Spanish. And only the little Manny knows Spanish. So Manny communicates with them and it seems they have agreed to their request. However, when they stop the car in front of the pet zoo, they understand what Manny had told them.
As they return home, Greg describes his new life with the pig who bit him. He feels though, that this part of his life doesn’t have a happy ending.
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