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100+ Road Trip Quotes & Captions to Inspire Your Next Adventure

Are you currently on a cross-country adventure and looking for some fun and inspiring road trip quotes!? Well, you’ve come to the right place because I’ve put together an incredible list of quotes about road trips that are guaranteed to fuel your wanderlust and would be perfect for that next Instagram caption!

There’s nothing more exciting, liberating, and powerful in the life of a traveler than hitting the road at a moment’s notice to explore somewhere new. Long before the Wright Brothers invented airplanes, cars were the beloved mode of transport across America.

That’s why everyone loves a road trip, and thankfully, there’s a plethora of captions, lines, lyrics, and quotes about roads and journeys that sum up just why they are so great.

My list of the 100 best road trip quotes and long ride quotes are inspirational, stirring, and uplifting, and I hope they will encourage you to take your own journey into the great unknown.

Need inspiration for your next road trip? I suggest the scenic Los Angeles to San Francisco drive along the beautiful Pacific Coast Highway.

The Best Road Trip Quotes & Road Trip Captions for Instagram

The Best Road Trip Quotes

This collection of the best road trip quotes sum up why hitting the road is such a powerful experience we all should do, and do often! 

1) “I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.” – Douglas Adams

One of my favorite inspirational car ride quotes

2) “I hope you see things that startle you. I hope you feel things you never felt before. I hope you meet people with a different point of view. I hope you live a life you’re proud of. If you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.” – Eric Roth, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

3) “I travel not to go anywhere but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.” – Robert Louis Stevenson

Few knew the adventure of the road more than RLS himself, so it’s no surprise he has several quotes on road trips. Were you inspired by reading Treasure Island?

This is one of my favorite long road quotes!

4) “Road trips are the equivalent of human wings. Ask me to go on one, anywhere. We’ll stop in every small town and learn the history and stories, feel the ground, and capture the spirit. Then we’ll turn it into our own story that will live inside our history to carry with us, always. Because stories are more important than things.” – Victoria Erickson

5) “A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.” – John Steinbeck

Steinbeck’s ‘Of Mice and Men’ is a high school text that many of us studied. Have you read the classic about George and Lenny?

6) “I want to go on a road trip. Just you and me. The highway, the radio, the blue sky, the back roads, and windows down. We’ll talk about everything and nothing. We’ll sing our hearts out, and we’ll make memories we’ll never forget. Just you and me.” – Unknown

7) “i see my path, but i don’t know where it leads. not knowing where i’m going is what inspires me to travel it.” – rosalia de castro.

Definitely one of the most inspiring road trip captions for Instagram!

8) “Part of us believes the new car is better because it lasts longer. But, in fact, that’s the worst thing about the new car. It will stay around to disappoint you, whereas a trip to Europe is over. It evaporates. It has the good sense to go away, and you are left with nothing but a wonderful memory.” – Daniel Gilbert

I know my travel memories will last a lifetime. Always take the adventure over the car! 

9) “I just go with the flow, I follow the yellow brick road. I don’t know where it’s going to lead me, but I follow it.” – Grace Jones

The Best Short Road Trip Quotes 

Short, sweet, and succinct, these short, beautiful road quotes truly encapsulate the power of an epic road trip and will surely stick with you for an entire road trip.  

10) “It’s not the destination, it’s the journey.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

11) “you may not find a path, but you will find a way.” – tom wolfe, 12) “people don’t take trips, trips take people.” – john steinbeck.

13) “Take care of your car in the garage, and the car will take care of you on the road.” – Amit Kalantri

14) “roads were made for journeys, not destinations.” – confucius, 15) “roads are a record of those who have gone before.” – rebecca solnit, 16) “good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.” – izaak walton.

17) “The open road is a beckoning, a strangeness, a place where a man can lose himself.” – William Least Heat Moon

18) “if you don’t know where you are going, any road will get you there.” – lewis carroll.

19)  “If you’re on a road trip, you need driving music.” -Edgar Wright

20) “the only impossible journey is the one you never begin” – tony robbins .

One of the best short road trip quotes

21) “Road trips aren’t measured by mile markers, but by moments.” – Unknown 

The greatest parts of a road trip happen unexpectedly along the way. Do you agree?

22) “Wherever you get to is better than where you started. To stay on the road is a massive achievement.” – Anthony Joshua

23) “All he needed was a wheel in his hand and four on the road.” – Jack Kerouac

24) “i take to the open road. healthy, free, the world before me.” – walt whitman.

Walt Whitman is the king of quotes about road trips

25) “No road is long with good company.” – Turkish proverb

26) “travel far enough, you meet yourself.” – david mitchell.

Heading to Australia soon?  Check out this article on “ Australia’s all-time greatest road trips revealed ” for some travel inspiration!

27) “The gladdest moment in human life, me thinks, is a departure into unknown lands.” –Sir Richard Burton

The days before departing for an unfamiliar and exotic destination are so exciting. Almost as awesome as when you get there. 

28) “I can speak to my soul only when the two of us are off exploring deserts or cities or mountains or roads.” – Paulo Coelho

29) “Look at life through the windshield, not the rearview mirror.” – Byrd Baggett

30)  “if you come to a fork in the road, take it.” – scott myers.

This is one of my favorite road trip captions for Instagram

31) “Just grab a friend and take a ride together upon the open road.” – A Goofy Movie

32) “discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” – marcel proust.

33) “Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.” – Anita Desai

This is one of the best road travel quotes because your experiences on the road can shape you for years to come.

34) “A bend in the road, is not the end of the road….unless you fail to make the turn.” – Helen Keller

35) “It’s a road trip! It’s about adventure! … It’s not like we have somewhere to go.” – John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

36) “sometimes all you need is a great friend and a tank of gas.” – unknown.

And if they’re happy to split the cost of gas… even better. 

37) “To awaken alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.” – Freya Stark

38) “every journey is simultaneously a beginning and an ending: i was leaving my old life behind and starting on a road trip to find a new me.” – debi tolbert duggar.

Road Trip Captions for Instagram

Can’t wait to share your fantastic road trip snaps with your followers? I can guarantee that these short road quotes will fit in like a glove as the perfect Instagram caption.

39) “Because the greatest part of a road trip isn’t arriving at your destination. It’s all the wild stuff that happens along the way.” – Emma Chase 

Road Trip Quotes to inspire!

40) “Happiness is a road trip.” – Unknown

41) “sometimes you find yourself in the middle of nowhere and sometimes in the middle of nowhere you find yourself.” – stacy westfall, 42) “the pleasure we derive from journeys is perhaps dependent more on the mindset with which we travel than on the destination we travel to.” – alain de botton.

43) “At the end of the day, your feet should be dirty, your hair messy and your eyes sparkling.” – Shanti

I’ve been on some camping adventures that this road trip Instagram caption would be perfect for! 

44) “It doesn’t matter where you’re going, it’s who you have beside you.” – Unknown

This is personally one of my favorite road tripping quotes, as it really hits home that the journey is about the people you get to spend it with. Not saying that solo travel can’t be just as incredible, but for me – it’s always about who I have beside me that makes memories.

A road trip with friends definitely makes the journey even more fun! One of my top short road trip quotes!

45) “Oh, the places you’ll go.” – Dr. Seuss

46) “always take the scenic route.”- unknown.

One of the best scenic route captions to tag along on a post with unbelievable scenery.

47) “Do Not Follow Where The Path May Lead. Go Instead Where There Is No Path And Leave A Trail.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

48) “the open road is there, it will always be there. you just have to decide when to take it.” – chris humphrey, 49) “when all’s said and done, all roads lead to the same end. so it’s not so much which road you take, as how you take it.” – charles de lint.

50) “Let’s go somewhere where nobody knows our name.” – Unknown 

51) “wanderlust and city dust.” – unknown, 52) “good friends follow you anywhere.” – winnie the pooh.

A road trip with friends is just more memorable, so who are the Tigger, Eeyore, and Piglet you need along with you for the ride?

53) “Making memories one road trip at a time.” – Unknown

54) “some beautiful paths can’t be discovered without getting lost.” – erol ozan.

55) “We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us.” – Unknown

56) “i love being on the road. i love that lifestyle, traveling city to city, rocking out and moving on to the next place.” – caleb johnson, 57) “the world is too big to stay in one place, and life is too short to do just one thing.” – unknown, 58) “once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers.  the mind can never break off from the journey.” – pat conroy.

59) “Let’s get lost.” – Unknown

But not like, lost lost.

60) “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing” – Helen Keller

61) “and so the adventure begins.” – unknown.

Heading to Europe soon?  Give a read through this article on “ The 20 Best Road Trips in Europe To Add to Your Bucket List “. 

Inspirational Quotes About Road Trips

Craving a bit of inspiration to fire you up for your next big road trip? These inspiring road trip quotes will see you packing your bag and taking that ride in no time. 

62) “Sometimes the most scenic roads in life are the detours you didn’t mean to take.” – Angela N. Blount

63) “Look on every exit being an entrance somewhere else.” – Tom Stoppard

This is one of those quotes about roads in life that work for both road tripping and just life in general.

64) “You Can’t Find The Right Roads When The Streets Are Paved.” – Bob Marley

65) “map out your future – but do it in pencil. the road ahead is as long as you make it. make it worth the trip.” – jon bon jovi.

Woooo-ah, we’re halfway there… woo-ahhh livin’ on a prayer! 

66) “The freedom of the open road is seductive, serendipitous and absolutely liberating.” – Aaron Lauritsen

67) “sometimes you find yourself in the middle of nowhere and sometimes in the middle of nowhere you find yourself” – stacey westfall.

68) “Travel is the only thing we buy that makes us richer.” – Unknown

And I can promise you, it’s worth every penny. 

69) “If you make the mistake of looking back too much, you aren’t focused enough on the road in front of you.” – Brad Paisley

70) “look for chances to take the less-traveled roads. there are no wrong turns.” – susan magsamen.

71) “Never underestimate the therapeutic power of driving and listening to very loud music.” – Unknown

What’s on your must-have road trip playlist? If you’re looking for some rockin’ tunes to cruise along to, Spotify is packed with epic road trip compilations. 

72) “Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and enjoy the journey.” – Babs Hoffman

Funny Road Trip Quotes 

What’s on your must-have road trip playlist? If you’re looking for some rockin’ tunes to cruise along to, Spotify is packed with epic road trip compilations.  

 73) “Road trips require a couple of things: a well-balanced diet of caffeine, salt and sugar and an excellent selection of tunes- oh, and directions.” – Jenn McKinlay

Fuel me up with coffee, candy and an epic road trip playlist and I’m one happy boy. 

74) “It doesn’t matter how old you are, buying snacks for a road trip should always look like an unsupervised 9 year old given $100.” – Unknown

75) “a road trip is a way for the whole family to spend time together and annoy each other in interesting new places.” – tom lichtenheld.

One of my favorite family road trip quotes, and if you’ve ever been on a family road trip, I’m sure you can agree with this one! It’s probably also one of the funniest long drive quotes on this list!

76) “Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason.” – Jerry Seinfeld

77) “we all have that one friend who is either on a road-trip or planning a road-trip or thinking about a road-trip or talking to people who are on a road-trip or posting quotes about a road-trip.” – crestless wave.

…I think I’m that friend. 

78) “That’s why I love road trips, dude. It’s like doing something without actually doing anything. – John Green

79) “kilometers are shorter than miles. save gas, take your next trip in kilometers.”  – george carlin, 80) “i have found out that there ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.” – mark twain.

Is there no truer quote about travel? 

81) “The best part of a road trip isn’t arriving at your destination … it’s the fast food along the way.” – Unknown

Road trip calories don’t count… do they? Because I want Taco Bell, Wendys, and Burger King every day!

82) “I wish road trips could pay my bills.” – Unknown 

Road Trip Movie Quotes 

There are so many classic films out that involve a road trip – usually where a major life lesson is learned along the way. We all love road trips, so the tried and tested film formula works. These movie quotes about road trips come from some of the most famous road trippin’ flicks in history. 

83) “Remember: the car is you, you are the car. Okay? Let’s ride!” – Gone in 60 Seconds

84) “well, we’re not in the middle of nowhere, but we can see it from here.”- thelma & louise.

What road trip movie is more widely loved than Thelma & Louise? It’s entertaining sure, but I just hope none of your adventures take the detour theirs did!

85) “According to the map, we’ve only gone four inches.” – Dumb and Dumber

86) “We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold.” – Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas

A (semi-autobiographical) road trip cinematic classic from the mind of the late, great Hunter S. Thompson. This is bat country! 

87) “I love waking up in the morning not knowing what’s gonna happen or who I’m gonna meet. Where I’m gonna wind up.” – Titanic  

88) “adventure is out there.” – up  , 89) “it’s a dangerous business, frodo, going out your door. you step onto the road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there’s no knowing where you might be swept off to.” – lord of the rings .

One road trip to rule them all. I just hope my next road trip isn’t as treacherous as Frodo and Sam’s.

90) “Now bring me that horizon…” – Pirates of the Caribbean 

91) “when i get home i shall write a book about this place… if i ever do get home.” – alice in wonderland, 92) i just said we’d make it across. i didn’t say anything about the wheels staying on.” – road trip .

Now, what road trip quote list would be complete without a quote from the hilarious teen comedy itself? 

93) “This is no longer a vacation. It’s a quest. It’s a quest for fun. You’re gonna have fun, and I’m gonna have fun… We’re all gonna have so much f***ing fun we’re gonna need plastic surgery to remove our goddamn smiles!” – National Lampoon’s Vacation

Who else had a father that road-tripped like Chevy Chase? 

94) “Mi scusi!” – Euro Trip 

Fans of this side-splitting road trip film will know exactly what this quote means! 

Road Trip Quotes from Song Lyrics 

Singers, the beloved modern-day poets, have some of the best driving quotes ever. While this shortlist of the best song lyrics about road trips may span musical decades and genres, they all nail the freedom a great road trip brings…

94) “You make me wanna roll my windows down and cruise.” – Cruise , Florida Georgia Line

95) “no one you have been and no place you have gone ever leaves you. the new parts of you simply jump in the car and go along for the rest of the ride. the success of your journey and your destination all depend on who’s driving.” – born to run, bruce springsteen.

96) “I drove all night to get to you.” – I Drove All Night , Cyndi Lauper

For when you can’t think of any night ride quotes.

97) If you don’t know where you’re going, any road will take you there.” – Any Road , George Harrison

98) “so, remember when we were driving, driving in your car. speed so fast felt like i was drunk. city lights lay out before us, and your arms felt nice wrapped around my shoulders, and i had a feeling that i belonged, and i had a feeling i could be someone.” – fast car, tracy chapman.

*Listens to Fast Car on repeat for an entire day. 

99) “Hit the road Jack and don’t you come back / No more, no more, no more, no more!” – Hit The Road Jack, Ray Charles

100) life is a highway, i wanna ride it all night long. if you’re going my way, i wanna drive it all night long.” – life is a highway, rascal flatts.

Easily one of the best highway quotes for road trips.

101) “Baby, you got the keys. Now shut up and drive.” — Shut Up and Drive , Rihanna 

102) “Big wheels keep on turning / Carry me home to see my kin / Singing songs about the south-land / I miss ‘ole’ ‘bamy once again.” – Sweet Home Alabama , Lynyrd Skynyrd

Proud Mary’s chorus starts with the same four words. Coincidence? I think not. 

103) “I got a blacked-out Chevrolet. You don’t have a destination. Traveling where the wind will take us. That might be from place to place.” – Let’s Go, Khalid 

What are your favorite Road Trip Quotes…?

There really is an endless amount of inspirational and fun car travel quotes, so I’d love to hear from you to see if there’s any specific quote I need to add to this list! Whether it’s from a movie, song, book, or poem – I’d love to keep this list up-to-date with the best road trip quotes available!

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90+ Road Trip Quotes to Excite You to Hit the Road

Road trips are one of our favorite ways to explore and travel. We have fallen in love with the freedom and spontaneity of the open road on our several cross-country road trips throughout the U.S. Here you will get a compiled list of our favorite road trip quotes combined with the top pictures we took on the road.

No matter if you are trying to find the love of the open road, looking for some road trip quotes to inspire your wanderlust, get encouraged to get on the road faster, or just want to have a good laugh, we have you covered. To find the road trip quotes you are looking for quicker, we have broken them down into categories.

Take the scroll through our 90+ favorite road trip quotes!

You might also like our other lists of unique quotes:

• Short Travel Quotes
• Hiking Quotes
• Travel Partner Quotes
• Quotes about Waterfalls
• Mountain Quotes
• Night Sky Quotes

Inspirational Road Trip Quotes

Can’t wait to hit the road again? Read through our inspirational road trip quotes and make the time to your next adventure pass a little quicker.

1.“It feels good to be lost in the right direction.” – Unknown

2. “The journey not the arrival matters.” – T.S. Eliot

3. “Remember that happiness is a way of travel – not a destination.” – Roy M. Goodman

4. “A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.” – Lao Tzu

5. “May your adventures bring you closer together, even as they take you far away from home” – Trenton Lee Stewart

6. “Look on every exit being an entrance somewhere else.” – Tom Stoppard

7. “The road that leads to nowhere for others might just be the road that leads to somewhere for you!” – Mehmet Murat Ildan

8. “When you go on a road trip, the trip itself becomes part of the story.” – Steve Rushin

9. “The open road is a beckoning, a strangeness, a place where a man can lose himself.” – William Least Heat Moon

10. “Still, round the corner, there may wait, A new road or a secret gate.” – J. R. R. Tolkien

11. “There are no mistakes. Only new paths to explore.” – Gregory David Roberts

12. “Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by.” – Robert Frost

13. “The road less traveled is the road to adventure.” – Unknown

14. “Happiness is a road trip.” – Unknown

15. “Live your life by a compass, not a clock.” – Stephen Covey

16. “Some beautiful paths can’t be discovered without getting lost.” – Erol Ozan

17. “Look for chances to take the less-traveled roads. There are no wrong turns.” – Susan Magsamen

18. “If you come to a fork in the road, take it.” – Yogi Berra

19. “If you make the mistake of looking back too much, you aren’t focused enough on the road in front of you.” – Brad Paisley

20. “Roads are a record of those who have gone before.” – Rebecca Solnit

21. “The freedom of the open road is seductive, serendipitous and absolutely liberating.” – Aaron Lauritsen

22. “Here today, gone tomorrow.” – Unknown

23. “Difficult roads often lead to beautiful destinations.” – Unknown

24. “You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.” – William Hazlitt

Quotes to Motivate You to Get Out on the Road

Preparing for a road trip can be overwhelming. You might be unsure which route to take, where to stay and which important essentials to pack. Don’t worry about it too much and let these road trip quotes motivate you to get on the road as soon as possible.

25. “Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and enjoy the trip.” – Babs Hoffman

26. “It is not down in any map; true places never are.” – Herman Melville

27. “On the road again, Goin’ places that I’ve never been, Seein’ things that I may never see again, And I can’t wait to get on the road again” – Willie Nelson

28. “Please understand, I have been waiting to leave ever since I figured out that there were roads willing to take me anywhere I wanted to go.” – Unknown

29. “The road is there, it will always be there. You just have to decide when to take it.” – Chris Humphrey

30. “You can’t find the right roads when the streets are paved.” – Bob Marley

31. “If you’re not lost, you’re not much of an explorer.” – John Perry Barlow

32. “If you don’t know where you’re going, any road will take you there.” – George Harrison

33. “Life is too short to not go on that spontaneous road trip.” – Unknown

34. “Sometimes the most scenic roads in life are the detours you didn’t mean to take.” – Angela N. Blount

Long Drive Quotes

Do you also love the feeling when it is just you and the long winding road? For us, there is nothing better. It makes us relaxed and totally carefree. We could drive and drive forever. Get into that beloved mood with these long drive quotes.

35. “Sometimes it’s worth lingering on the journey for a while before getting to the destination.” – Richelle Mead

36. “The road goes on forever and the party never ends.” – Robert Earl Keen

37. “Take the long way home.” – Unknown

38. “I’m not lost, I’ve just temporarily lost sight of my destination.” – Unknown

39. “Sometimes the best therapy is a long drive and good music.” – Unknown

40. “I’m really in the mood for a long drive with no real destination.” – Unknown

41. “A long drive to nowhere is the best way to clear the mind.” – Meggan Roxanne

42. “Time flies. It’s up to you to be the navigator.” – Robert Orben

43. “Roads were made for journeys, not destinations.” – Confucius

44. “Somewhere on your journey don’t forget to turn around and enjoy the view.” – Unknown

45. “The road must eventually lead to the whole world.” – Jack Kerouac

46. “Always take the scenic route.” – Unknown

47. “Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road.” – Jack Kerouac

48. “And just like that, we’re on our way to everywhere.” -Emery Lord

49. “I climb behind the steering wheel… I drive off immediately without once looking back; it’s a long journey but it leads to freedom.” – Corinne Hofmann

50. “I just go with the flow, I follow the yellow brick road. I don’t know where it’s going to lead me, but I follow it.” – Grace Jones

51. “I’m on the road constantly. I’m a nomad. I don’t really have a home right now. I don’t identify with one place in particular.” – Daya

52. “I get emotionally attached to the cars ahead of me on long road trips.” – Unknown

53. “There is nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep on rolling under the stars.” – Jack Kerouac

54. “I don’t know where I’m going from here but I promise it won’t be boring.” – David Bowie

Road Trip Quotes with Friends & Family

To be honest, driving the roads on your own can get quite boring. So grab some friends or family, play some fun car games or rock out to the greatest road trip hits, and have an unforgettable time.

55. “Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.” – Hemingway

56. “It is not the destination where you end up but the mishaps and memories you create along the way.” – Penelope Riley

57. “Road trips aren’t measured by mile markers, but by moments.” – Unknown

58. “Good company on a journey makes the way seem shorter.” – Izaak Walton

59. “Because the greatest part of a road trip isn’t arriving at your destination. It’s all the wild stuff that happens along the way.” – Emma Chase

60. “Sometimes all you need is a great friend and a tank of gas.” – Thelma and Louise

61. “Just grab a friend and take a ride, Together upon the open road” – A Goofy Movie

62. “I want to go on a road trip. Just you, and me. The highway, the radio, the blue sky, the back roads, and windows down. We’ll talk about everything and nothing. We’ll sing our hearts out, and we’ll make memories we’ll never forget. Just you and me.” – Unknown

63. “A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles.” – Tim Cahill

64. “Making memories, one road trip at a time.” – Unknown

65. “You make me wanna roll my windows down and cruise.” – Florida Georgia Line, Cruise

66. “Happiness is… planning a road trip to somewhere new, with someone you love.” – Unknown

67. “No road is long with good company.” – Turkish Proverb

68. “A road trip is a way for the whole family to spend time together and annoy each other in interesting new places.” – Tom Lichtenheld

Road Trip Quotes about Life

Are you looking for some powerful, deep road trip quotes which are filled with wisdom and will make you think about yourself and life? Then these quotes will inspire you and bring some more light into your life.

69. “When all’s said and done, all roads lead to the same end. So it’s not so much which road you take, as how you take it.” – Charles de Lint

70. “Map out your future – but do it in pencil. The road ahead is as long as you make it. Make it worth the trip.” – Jon Bon Jovi

71. “Sometimes you find yourself in the middle of nowhere, and sometimes in the middle of nowhere, you find yourself.” – Unknown

72. “Look at life through the windshield, not the rearview mirror.” – Byrd Baggett

73. “Wherever you get to is better than where you started. To stay on the road is a massive achievement.” – Anthony Joshua

74. “Life is not always perfect. Like a road, it has many bends, ups and down, but that’s its beauty.” – Amit Ray

75. “Refuel your soul, love. This is a long drive.” – JH Hard

76. “Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you ride through the ruts, don’t complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief, and jealousy. Don’t bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live!” – Bob Marley

77. “Life is beautiful if you are on the road to somewhere.” – Orhan Pamuk

78. “At the end of the day, I understand that life has roadblocks, and life is like school – you’ll be tested; we gotta pass it.” – DJ Khaled

79. “Every journey is simultaneously a beginning and an ending: I was leaving my old life behind and starting on a road trip to find a new me.” – Debi Tolbert Duggar

80. “Nobody travels on the road to success without a puncture or two.” – Unknown

81. “It’s your road and yours alone. Others may walk it with you but no one can walk it for you.” – Rumi

82. “Some roads aren’t meant to be travelled alone.” – Chinese Proverb

Funny Road Trip Quotes

Everyone needs a good laugh. Let these funny road trip quotes lighten up your day and make you want to get back on the road even faster.

83. “The American tendency in travel; one goes not so much to see, but to tell of it afterward.” – John Steinbeck

84. “Kilometers are shorter than miles. Save gas, take your next trip in kilometers.” – George Carlin

85. “In 1903 the Wright brothers invented airplanes because in 1902 they took a road trip across the country with their family.” – Bill Engvall

86. “Take care of your car in the garage, and the car will take care of you on the road.” – Amit Kalantri

87. “Road trips require a couple of things: a well-balanced diet of caffeine, salt and sugar, and an excellent set of tunes – oh, and directions.” – Jenn McKinlay

88. “A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.” – John Steinbeck

89. “A tourist is a fellow who drives thousands of miles so he can be photographed standing in front of his car.” – Emile Ganest

90. “That’s why I love road trips, dude. It’s like doing something without actually doing anything.” – John Green

91. “Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason.” – Jerry Seinfeld

Which road trip quote speaks to you the most? Do you love road trips as much as we do?

Share your best road trip quotes with us or drop a question in the comments below!

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170 Best Road Trip Quotes: Quirky, Funny and Deep

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Road trips are a great way to spend time with family or friends, see new places, and take in the great outdoors. They also provide plenty of opportunity for funny and memorable quotes. Whether you’re packing up your car for a trip this weekend or just reminiscing on times gone by, we’ve rounded up the 170 best road trip quotes – some funny, some deep, some inspirational – all perfect for sharing with those you love. In preparation for your next long drive!

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What Is A Road Trip Quote ?

A road trip quote is a short, catchy phrase that captures the feeling of a journey or adventure. It’s fun to come up with your own and share them with friends on social media sites like Instagram.

Quotes about journeys and traveling can be both whimsical and profound, making them the perfect thing to ponder as you prep for your next adventure and then hit the open road. Below you’ll fund some of our favorite quotes about road trips and travel to get you inspired for your next journey!

Why Are Road Trip Quotes So Popular ?

 Road trip quotes are popular because they evoke a sense of nostalgia for the open road. They also serve as little reminders to appreciate the journey, not just the destination.

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Best Quotes on Road Trips – Quirky, Funny, Deep

What is it about  jumping into your car and hitting the open road  that can invoke feelings of excitement, joy and freedom?

Maybe it’s the endless possibilities for gorgeous views, adventures, and the company of friends and family.

Maybe it’s the chance to let the winds blow you where they may, taking the next fork in the road, getting lost and found.

Maybe it’s the wind blowing through your hair, the snack stops along the way, and a new place to lay your head each night or three.

In honor of all that is the open road, here are the best quotes on road trips and captions about the road and journeys . We hope they inspire your next vacation, or epic road trip across the country.

Short Road Trip Quotes

Family road trip quotes, funny road trip quotes.

• Road Trip Quotes for Instagram

Inspirational Road Trip Quotes

• Long Drive Quotes
• Road Trip Quotes Love & Couple Quotes
• Road Trip Quotes with Friends

Heading down the open road can be liberating. It can help you, your family and friends leave worries behind and focus on the short or long journey ahead. Here are a few inspiring short road trip quotes to get you in the spirit:

• “ Life is a journey, not a destination ” – often attributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson
• “Not all those who wander are lost.” – J.R.R. Tolkien , in Fellowship of the Ring
• “All he needed was a wheel in his hand and four on the road.” – J.R.R. Tolkien , in Fellowship of the Ring
• “We do not take a trip, a trip takes us.” – John Steinbeck
• “If you don’t know where you are going, any road will get you there.” – Lewis Caroll Alice in Wonderland

• “Roads were made for journeys, not destinations .” – Confucious
• “There’s always a way if you’re not in a hurry.” – Paul Theroux
• “Two roads diverged in a wood and I … I took the one less traveled by.” – Robert Frost
• “I take to the open road, healthy, free, the world before me.” – Walt Whitman, ‘Song Of The Open Road’.
• “I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.” – Susan Sontag
• ” Life is a Highway, I want to ride it all night long.” – Tom Cochrane
• “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.” – Helen Keller
• “The journey is my home. “ – Muriel Rukeyser
• “Still, round the corner, there may wait, a new road or a secret gate.”  – J. R. R. Tolkien
• “Travel far enough you meet yourself.” – David Mitchell
• “You may not find a path, but you’ll find a way.” – Tom Wolfe
• “Look at life through the windshield, not the rearview mirror.” – Byrd Baggett
• “Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.” – Anita Desai

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We love a good family road trip, to a National Park, or a day trip down the highway. Family road trips are measured in mile markers, conversations, new sites, endless snacks, and the occasional sibling fight or two. Here are a few family road trip quotes to inspire your next road trip adventure and celebrate the wild stuff that happens in this wonderful world of ours:

• “ May your adventures bring you closer together, even as they take you far away from home. ” —  Trenton Lee Stewart
• “Traveling with children isn’t going on a vacation. It’s more like entering into a war zone and your hostages are the kids.” – Erma Bombeck
• “A road trip is a way for the whole family to spend time together and annoy each other in interesting and new places.” – Tom Lichtenheld

• “As soon as I saw you, I knew an adventure was going to happen.” – A. A. Milne, Winnie the Pooh
• “Traveling with young children is the perfect time to discover that your children are people.” – Pico Lyer
• “ There are no seven wonders of the world in the eyes of a child. There are seven million. ” – Walt Streightiff
• “ And that’s the wonderful thing about family travel. It provides you with experiences that will remain locked forever in the scar tissue of your mind .” – Dave Berry
• “The family that travels together, stays together.” – Unknown
• “You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.” – Dr Seuss
• “There are no perfect parents and there are no perfect children, but there are plenty of perfect moments along the way.”  – Dave Willis

•  “Every day we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.” 

– Unknown

• “Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But that’s okay. The journey changes you; it should change you. It leaves marks on your memory, on your consciousness, on your heart, and on your body. You take something with you. Hopefully, you leave something good behind.”  – Anthony Bourdain
• “Traveling in the company of those we love is home in motion.” – Leigh Hunt
• “Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” – Arthur Ashe
• “The only thing worse than starting something and failing…. is not starting something.” – Seth Godin
• “Because the greatest part of a road trip isn’t arriving at your destination. It’s all the wild stuff that happens along the way.”  – Emma Chase
• “ You can be writing every day. When you go on a road trip, the trip itself becomes part of the story. ” – Steve Rushin
• “Kids don’t remember their best day of television.”  – Unknown
• “When you travel with your children you are giving them something that can never be taken away … experience, exposure and a way of life.” – Pamela T. Chandler
• “Two of the greatest gifts we can give our children, roots and wings” – Hodding Carter

Funny Family Road Trip Quotes

Family road trips can be amazing, and a disaster, and then there are those special or funny moments that make it all worth it. Here are some family road road trip quotes that are funny and poignant.

• Parent’s don’t really go on holidays. They just look after their kids in a different country for a while.” – Unknown
• “Family trips are the perfect time to create memories that your kids will someday try to erase.” – Dave Barry
• “In 1903 the Wright brothers invented airplanes because in 1902 they took a road trip across the country with their family.” – Bill Engvall
• “ Going on a road trip with kids. Need about 5 outfits, packed 25 just in case. ” – Unknown
• Happiness is a family road trip, with a loud playlist. – Unknown
• “You can’t find the right roads when the streets are paved.” – Bob Marley
• “Sometimes the most scenic roads in life are the detours you didn’t mean to take.” – Angela N. Blount
• “Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and enjoy the journey.” – Babs Hoffman
• “You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.” – Franklin P. Jones
• “Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.” – George Burns
• “It’s a magical world, Hobbes, ol’ buddy… Let’s go exploring! “ – Calvin & Hobbes
• “When you choose to collect experiences rather than things, you will never run out of storage space.” – Unknown

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Taking the scenic route in good company can lead you on daring adventures, quiet moments or disasterous but funny after the fact events. Often in the same trip. Here is a list of our favourite road trip sayings and quotes as well as funny road trip captions:

• “Well, we’re not in the middle of nowhere, but we can see it from here.” – ‘Thelma & Louise ‘
• “I don’t know where I’m going from here but I promise it won’t be boring.” – David Bowie
• “If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine, it’s lethal.”  – Paulo Coelho
• “Road trips require a couple of things: A well-balanced diet of caffeine, salt and sugar and excellent selection of tunes—oh, and directions.”   Jenn McKinlay, Books Can Be Deceiving
• “Get your motor runnin’, Head out on the highway, Lookin’ for adventure…” – Steppenwolf, ‘ Born To Be Wild ‘.
• ” I have found out that there ain’t a no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them. ” – Mark Twain
• “Buckle up. It’s going to be a bumpy ride.” – Unknown
• “My life is a constant quest to find the best parking spot. – Unknown
• “It’s not the size of your gas tank that matters, it’s how much is in there when you need it.” – Unknown

• “I’m not lost. I know exactly where I am.” – Confused driver
• “A tourist is a fellow who drives thousands of miles so he can be photographed standing in front of his car.” – Émile Genest
• “Driving is boring,” Rabbit pontificates, “but it’s what we do. Most of American life is driving somewhere and then driving back wondering why the hell you went.” –  John Updike
• “Why do we drive on parkways and park on driveways? Just to be silly! ” – George Carlin
• “Sometimes all you need is a great friend and a tank of gas.”  –  Thelma and Louise
• “Road Trips: Because they’re cheaper than therapy.”  – Unknown
• “Have you noticed that anyone going slower than you is an idiot and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?”   – George Carlin
• “When traveling with someone, take large doses of patience and tolerance with your morning coffee.” – Helen Hayes
• “Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason!” – Jerry Seinfeld
• “The inside of the old Camaro smelled like asphalt and desire, gasoline and dreams.” – Maggie Stiefvater

Road Trip Captions Funny

• “Map out your future – but do it in pencil. The road ahead is as long as you make it. Make it worth the trip.” – Jon Bon Jovi
• “If you’re on a road trip, you need driving music.” –   Edgar Wright
• “I just go with the flow, I follow the yellow brick road. I don’t know where it’s going to lead me, but I follow it.” – Grace Jones
• “I’m so hungry I could eat a sandwich from a gas station.”   -Chevy Chase
• “Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you, and scorn in the one ahead.”  -Mac McCleary
• “Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn’t block traffic.” – Dan Rather
• “It doesn’t matter how old you get, buying snacks for a road trip should always look like an unsupervised 9 year old was given $100.”  – Unknown
• “Kilometers are shorter than miles. Save fuel, take your next trip in Kilometers.” – George Carlin
• “You know, somebody actually complimented me on my driving today. They left a little note on the windscreen, it said ‘Parking Fine.”  – Tommy Cooper
• “I don’t drive fast, I drive YOUNG.” – Musawir Masood
• “Technically speaking, you drive like a rabid chicken who has hijacked a tractor.”  – Sarah Rees Brennan
• “A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.” – John Steinbeck

Road Trip Quotes for Instagram (Captions and Puns)

On your next roar trip, don’t let those moments fall through the cracks. Pull out your phone, capture those moments, and grab these road trip instagram quotes, captions and puns to share.

• Been driving all day. I need a  brake !
• I love road trips, but all the driving is  tire -ing!
• Get Miata here!
• I’d go the extra mile for you.
• Are we there yet? How far is that?!?
• Turns out I need a day off, a dirt road and snacks.
• Wanderlust & highway dust.
• Road trips are measured in moments, not mile markers.
• Nowhere, but everywhere all at the same time.
• There are no wrong turns, only new adventures.
• Making memories, one mile at a time.
• Windows down, music up, snacks out.
• Road trips are the best therapy.
• The open road is seductive.
• Life is a highway.
• Road less travelled.
• The trip becomes the story.
• My mood is a long drive, loud music & coffee on repeat
• All I want for Christmas is the open road, wind in my hair & good friends.
• Detours are life’s way of keeping you on track.

The open road can provide inspiration to find yourself, contemplate life in beautiful sunsets, mountain ranges and inspire epic road trip books like “ On the Road” by Jack Kerouac.

• “I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.” – Douglas Adams
• ” A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. ” -John Steinbeck
• “ I will not follow where the path may lead, but I will go where there is no path, and I will leave a trail. ” -Muriel Strode, from the poem “ Wind-Wafted Wild Flowers ”
• “ Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller. ” -Ibn Battuta ,  from The Travels of Ibn Battutah
• “Because the greatest part of a road trip isn’t arriving at your destination. It’s all the wild stuff that happens along the way.” – Emma Chase, from Tamed
• “Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.” – Neale Donald Walsch , from   Conversations with God
• “I love road trips. You get into this Zen rhythm; throw the sense of time out the window.” – Miriam Toews
• “Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and enjoy the journey”   – Babs Hoffman 
• All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.” – Martin Buber
• “A bend in the road is not the end of the road… unless you fail to make the turn.” – Helen Keller
• “Difficult roads often lead to beautiful destinations .” – Zig Ziglar
• “If you make the mistake of looking back too much, you aren’t focused enough on the road in front of you.” – Brad Paisley
• “Look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else.” – Tom Stoppard
• “I wonder why it is that when I plan a route too carefully, it goes to pieces, whereas if I blunder along in blissful ignorance aimed in a fancied direction I get through with no trouble.” – John Steinbeck
• “There’s a whole world out there, right outside your window. You’d be a fool to miss it.”  – Charlotte Eriksson
• “You steer down lightless highways, and you invent a destination because movement is key.” – Nic Pizzolatto
• “Road trips are the gateway to curiosity, freedom and a belly full of snacks.” – Donna – Packed for Life

Long Drive Captions

Sometimes the best way to see a place is on a long road trip. Whether you’re taking a road trip to your favorite vacation spot or planning travelling across country in an RV, here are our top long drive quotes and long drive captions:

• “Map out your future, but do it in pencil. The road ahead is as long as you make it. Make it worth the trip.”   – Jon Bon Jovi
• “The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.” – Lao Tzu
• “It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there’s no knowing where you might be swept off to.” – J.R.R Tolkien
•  “Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road.” – Jack Kerouac
• “When you come to a fork in the road; take it.”   – Yogi Berra
• “No road is long with good company.” – Turkish Proverb
• “The freedom of the open road is seductive, serendipitous and absolutely liberating” – Aaron Lauritsen
• “There is nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep on rolling under the stars.”  – Jack Kerouac
• “Road trips aren’t measured by mile markers, but by moments.” – Unknown
• “No one you have been and no place you have gone ever leaves you. The new parts of you simply jump in the car and go along for the rest of the ride. The success of your journey and your destination all depends on who’s driving.” – Bruce Springsteen
• “There is something about the momentum of travel that makes you want to just keep moving, to never stop.”  – Bill Bryson
• “On the road again, Goin’ places that I’ve never been, Seein’ things that I may never see again, And I can’t wait to get on the road again.”  – Willie Nelson

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Road Trip Quotes With Love & Couple Travel Quotes

The open road is a place to start fresh, expand your horizons and find an adventure. Road tripping with your honey can make a memorable journey. Solo adventures can be freeing and invite introspection and self love. Both can lead you on beautiful paths of discovery. Here are our top road trip quotes with love and about love on the open road:

• “A road trip is always better with someone you love.” – Unknown
• A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.” – John Steinbeck
• “I love you more than a car can hold. I love you more than the miles between us.” – Unknown
• “Actually, the best gift you could have given her was a lifetime of adventures.” – Lewis Carroll
• “And the purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
• “I can speak to my soul only when the two of us are off exploring deserts or cities or mountains or roads.”  – Paulo Coelho
• “If you want to go fast go alone. If you want to go far, go together.”  – African Proverb
• “Traveling in the company of those we love is home in motion.”  – Leigh Hunt

• “Sometimes you find yourself in the middle of nowhere and sometimes in the middle of nowhere you find yourself.”  – Unknown
• “Love is the food of life, travel is the dessert.” – Unknown
• “People never forget two things, their first love and their first day in New York City.” – Unknown
• “Traveling is like flirting with life. It’s like saying, “I would stay and love you, but I have to go; this is my station.” – Lisa St. Aubin de Teran
• “What we find in a soulmate is not something wild to tame, but something wild to run with.” – Robert Brault
• “I would like to travel the world with you twice. Once, to see the world. Twice to see the way you see the world.” – Unknown

Road Trip Quotes With Friends

What could be better when seeking new adventures and making travel memories than with friends. A journey is better when you have someone to share it with. Plus it provides opportunities to grow closer, and make your friendship stringer.

Here are a few of the best travel quotes with friends.

• “A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles.”  – Tim Cahill
• “Happiness [is] only real when shared.” – Christopher McCandles
• “Some roads aren’t meant to be travelled alone.”   – Chinese Proverb
• “Life was meant for great adventures and close friends ” – Unknown

• In life, it’s not where you go – it’s who you travel with.” – Charles M. Schulz
• “We are all travelers in the wilderness of the world and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.” – Robert Louis Stevenson
• “ Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.” –  Anais Nin
• “One of the great things about travel is that you find out how many good, kind people there are.”  – Edith Wharton
• “Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.”  – Izaak Walton
• “We all start as strangers.”  –  Unknown
• “Just grab a friend and take a ride, together upon the open road.” –  The Goofy Movie
• “If you don’t know where you are going, any road will get you there.” Lewis Carroll,
• “A friend may be waiting behind a stranger’s face.” – Maya Angelou
• “There is an unspoken bond you create with the friends you travel with.” – Kristen Sarah
• “There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven’t yet met.” – William Butler Yeats
• “Best friends are people hard to find, difficult to be, and impossible to live without. They are the people you get along with so easily in the journey called life.” – Khushi Parwal
• “The struggles we endure today will be the ‘good old days’ we laugh about tomorrow.”  – Aaron Lauritsen
• “A true best friend may get you into trouble, but they will always be there to pull you out of it too.”  – Kaylee Stepkoski
• “The more I traveled, the more I realized fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.” – Shirley MacLaine
• “If you want to go fast go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” – African Proverb
• “Getting to know new people and gaining new friends is one of life’s greatest pleasures. So, conquer your fears and get out there.” – Tony Clark
• “Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.”   – Anais Nin
• “I get a friend to travel with me… I need somebody to bring me back to who I am. It’s hard to be alone.”   – Leonardo DiCaprio
• “The fastest way to make a friend for life is to travel with a stranger.” – Christina Pfeiffer
• “Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.” – Oprah Winfrey

Road Tripping Quotes for Everyone

I hope this quotes about road trips have inspired you to explore the open road, enjoy some laughs and fun with family and friends.

Road trips can inspire so many things, curiosity, exploration, poems, epic stories.

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27 Best Road Trip Quotes to Inspire Your Next Adventure + Downloadable Social Media Images

By Jason Barnette | Travel writer and photographer with 15+ years of road tripping experience

• Last Updated on July 24, 2023
• Published on July 24, 2023

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Most quotes are fake. It is like playing the childhood game telephone where someone whispers a sentence into the ear of the first person in a long line, and twenty whispers later a mangled sentence, barely recognizable from the original, is produced. Despite the common knowledge that most quotes are fake, or at the very least modified, people share them across social media and lists on websites.

I was one of those people. Eager to produce a list of the best road trip quotes, I scoured the internet and culled my notes for anything to add to the growing list. I proudly published a list of 100 road trip quotes.

Then one day, I realized one of the quotes was misattributed. So, I started digging into the history of the quote. I realized that the quote was not only misattributed but also mangled like the result of the telephone game.

I decided I needed to muster journalistic integrity and verify my writing. But the deeper I dug into the origins of the quotes, the more questions arose.

Who was Sir Tom Stoppard and Alain de Botton?

When precisely did Tony Robbins utter that quote?

Who wrote the screenplay for Dumb and Dumber?

As I scoured the web for answers, I created some criteria for the road trip quotes I chose to list:

• The author must be verified
• The origin of the quote must be identified
• The topic must be directly related to road trips
• No corny one-liners

With a set of rules written on an index card and a fresh coffee kept warm by the warming plate – my favorite desktop accessory – I dived head-first into the world wide web, hoping to verify quotes, find missing authors, and learn the story behind the profound words.

And because we live in the age of social media, I also included downloadable images for desktop and mobile. Maybe when you plaster it on Facebook , Instagram , or Pinterest , you’ll give me credit for the image?

“If you don’t care where you want to get to, then it doesn’t matter which way you go.” – Lewis Carroll

“If you don’t know where you are going, any road will get you there.” This is another misquote often attributed to Lewis Carroll, author of Alice in Wonderland . However, this quote never appears in the book or anything Carroll wrote.

The quote is a paraphrase of an exchange between Alice and the Cat. Here is the section from the book:

“Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?”

“That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,” said the Cat.

“I don’t much care where–” said Alice.

“Then it doesn’t matter which way you go,” said the Cat.

“–so long as I get SOMEWHERE,” Alice added as an explanation.

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Someone read this passage and paraphrased a memorable one-liner at some point in history because those make the best quotes. Then, as the quote’s popularity grew, the origin was left behind.

I also paraphrased the passage in the quote above. But it’s a more accurate quote, and I attributed it to something Lewis Carroll wrote in Alice in Wonderland .

“Look on every exit being an entrance somewhere else.” – Sir Tom Stoppard

Almost every one grows up reading Shakespeare at least once. But few ever hear of Sir Tom Stoppard, a British playwright and screenwriter. At the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 1966, Stoppard debuted one of his most acclaimed works: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead .

The play is about the lives of two minor characters waiting “in the wings” from Shakespeare’s Hamlet . It’s a self-aware, comical take on what minor characters do in-universe while not on stage.

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One passage from the play features Stoppard’s popular quote above:

PLAYER: We keep to our usual stuff, more or less, only inside out. We do on stage the things that are supposed to happen off. Which is a kind of integrity, if you look on every exit being an entrance somewhere else. (Act I)

The Player, one of the primary characters of Stoppard’s play, explains that when they leave the main stage of Hamlet , they go backstage and continue to live their lives. Exiting Shakespeare’s play is simply an entrance into Stoppard’s.

But somewhere in time, someone thought “look on every exit being an entrance somewhere else” was a great soundbite when taken out of context. Now, the quote takes on a new meaning with existential ramifications.

And I like it.

“The only impossible journey is the one you never begin.” – Tony Robbins 

Even if you don’t know who Tony Robbins is, you know about Tony Robbins. Anthony J. Mahavoric began his career as a motivational speaker when he was just 17 years old, working to promote fellow speaker Jim Rohn. Since then, Robbins has gained worldwide acclaim for his self-help books, seminars, and catchy one-liners.

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“The only impossible journey is the one you never begin.” This is just one of Robbins’ popular quotes. But he was not referring to journey in the sense of travel, but instead about one’s journey through life.

But it works well as a travel quote, too.

“Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.” – Izaak Walton

This quote is often attributed to Izaak Walton, although I cannot verify if he ever said or wrote it. Walton was a 17th-century English writer and author of The Compleat Angler , a popular book about the art and spirit of fishing published in 1653.

After a career as a linen draper, Walton retired to a small farm he purchased north of his hometown. He spent the next forty years traveling the country and fishing with prominent political and religious leaders.

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Interestingly, Walton secretly harbored one of the Crown Jewels. After Oliver Cromwell defeated King Charles II at the Battle of Worchester, Charles was sent into exile for nine years. Walton hid the Crown Jewel on his farm until he could smuggle it to Charles in Europe.

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“The pleasure we derive from journeys is perhaps dependent more on the mindset with which we travel than on the destination we travel to.” – Alain de Botton

Alain de Botton is a British philosopher and author of several books. Essays in Love , published in 1993, is one of his most successful books. In 2002, he published The Art of Travel . Botton takes a different approach to writing about travel – instead of exploring things to do in a destination, he dives into why people should travel in the first place.

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The quote above is one of the best from the book but far from the only notable snippet. His writing style is wordier than many of the other quote authors. It just makes you think more about the meaning.

And it’s one of the few road trip quotes that has been shared accurately and attributed to the correct author.

“The journey is part of the experience – an expression of the seriousness of one’s intent. One doesn’t take the A train to Mecca.” – Anthony Bourdain

Anthony Bourdain graduated from The Culinary Institute of America in 1978. But working in professional kitchens was not the only course he’d plotted for his life. In 1999, Bourdain submitted an unsolicited essay to The New Yorker, where it was later published. “Don’t Eat Before Reading This” launched his career as a celebrity chef, author, and world-traveling documentarian.

In 2002, Bourdain published A Cook’s Tour: Global Adventures in Extreme Cuisines . The book is a chronicle of his globetrotting adventures, searching for the ultimate meal. It was one of his earliest published books that demonstrated his ability to write lyrically about travel and food, leading to much of his success later in his career.

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In 2005, riding high from his New York Times best-selling book, Bourdain began hosting Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations on the Travel Channel. His introduction to a worldwide audience propelled him into celebrity chef status.

“Kilometers are shorter than miles. Save gas, take your next trip in kilometers.” – George Carlin

George Carlin was a comedian known for his counterculture routines and rough language. Taking the stage in jeans and t-shirts from Hollywood to New York City, Carlin entertained millions throughout his career.

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In 1998, Carlin published his first book – Brain Droppings . The 272-page book is filled with quotes, musings, and jokes. The above quote was buried deep inside the book.

The quote was typical of Carlin’s brand of comedy, using plays on words and twisting logic to achieve a humorous outcome. And it’s the perfect kind of road trip quote to keep in the car’s instrument panel.

“According to the map, we’ve only gone four inches.” – Peter Farrelly, Bobby Farrelly, and Bennet Yelling

Paper maps are vintage now. Although Rand McNally publishes an updated spiral-bound map book every year, I never see any leave the bookshelves. So, it may be difficult for the modern generation to understand the humor in this quote.

In 1994, Peter Farrelly, Bobby Farrelly, and Bennet Yelling co-wrote Dumb and Dumber , launching their careers as comedy movie writers. It was the first commercially successful venture of the Farrelly brothers, who would go on to direct classic comedies like There’s Something About Mary , Shallow Hal , and Dumber and Dumber To .

Jeff Daniels had already been acting for over a decade when he starred as Harry in Dumb and Dumber . It was his first successful starring role in a popular film and kickstarted a career of comedy and drama roles.

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Jim Carrey’s break-out role came just a few months earlier with Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, followed by The Mask . He starred in Dumb and Dumber as Floyd, a dimwitted man on a mission. After Mary, played by Lauren Holly, left a briefcase at the airport, limousine driver Floyd took it upon himself to embark on a cross-country road trip to Aspen.

Shortly after leaving Rhode Island with his roommate and best friend, Harry comments, “According to the map, we’ve only gone four inches.” It’s something to which modern-day travelers with smartphone navigation apps and car GPS devices can’t relate.

And it makes the joke even funnier today for those who get it.

“The one thing that unites all human beings, regardless of age, gender, religion, economic status, or ethnic background, is that, deep down inside, we all believe that we are above-average drivers.” – Dave Barry

Dave Barry knows a thing or two about comedy. In fact, in 1988, he won the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary “for his consistently effective use of humor as a device for presenting fresh insights into serious concerns.”

Barry was a columnist for the Miami Herald from 1988 to 2005, where he wrote a nationally syndicated column. He had a talent for using humor to discuss serious situations and engaging an audience that otherwise would have kept turning the page.

So, it should be no surprise that he would tackle the topic of terrible drivers. In a column for the Baltimore Sun, Barry admitted he was more than likely an under-average driver. But then he claims 93% of American drivers are also under-average, although they deny it.

I love this as a road trip quote because any road trip will ultimately involve crazy driving – either by someone else or you.

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A lifetime ago, I lived in Emerald Isle, North Carolina. It was just as charming as the name implies. A small barrier island connected to the mainland with a two-lane bridge arching high over the Intracoastal Waterway. It was a town with more short-term rental houses than permanent homes and a population that would swell to tens of thousands during the summer.

And there were a lot of bad drivers.

I used to joke that it seemed like tourists would leave their brains in storage on the other side of the bridge because they suddenly forgot how to drive as soon as they crossed it. A red traffic light means going faster, white lines marking parking spaces are only suggestions, and turn signals are off-limits.

“Afoot and light-hearted I take to the open road. Healthy, free, the world before me.” –Walt Whitman

Did you know that famed poet Walt Whitman published a poem about taking a road trip in 1856? Leaves of Grass was a poetry collection initially published in 1855. But Whitman was unsatisfied with the final product, so he published between six and nine editions of the collection over the next fifty years.

The second edition debuted the poem Song of the Open Road . Under the idea of Manifest Destiny – the belief that God had blessed the United States with a mission to expand across the entire North American continent – thousands of settlers trekked toward the Pacific Coast.

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Whitman’s poem symbolized the movement. The “open road” represented the freedom of Americans and the endless opportunity the burgeoning young country offered. The quote above, “Afoot and light-hearted I take to the open road. Healthy, free, the world before me,” represented the hopes of the 400,000 settlers who trekked across the country by 1870.

Symbolism aside, it’s an excellent quote for road trips today. All we need is health and freedom, luxuries we often take for granted, to enjoy the open road. How often are you reminded of those luxuries while on a road trip?

“All he needed was a wheel in his hand and four on the road.” – Jack Kerouac

Jack Kerouac was one of the most popular writers of his generation despite having never completed college. While writing his first novel, The Town and the City , Kerouac road-tripped across the country with Dean Moriarty, a close friend. He kept small notebooks filled with thoughts, feelings, and impressions – everything a travel writer notes today.

In 1951, Kerouac typed the first draft of On the Road on a 120-foot-long scroll of paper – the manuscript was single-spaced and devoid of paragraph breaks. Viking Press published the book in 1957. The fictional novel based on the road trip features Sal Paradise, based on Kerouac, and Neal Cassady, based on Moriarty, experiencing America through music, drugs, and adventures during a road trip.

“All he needed was a wheel in his hand and four on the road,” is one of countless popular quotes from the book. Every passage in On the Road expresses a casual approach to life, epitomizing a carefree attitude. It’s more than just the best novel published during the Counterculture period – it’s one of the best road trip travelogues ever written.

“You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.” – William Hazlitt

William Hazlitt is an uncelebrated British journalist and essayist of the early 1800s. Hazlitt dabbled in philosophy, poetry, and painting in his early life. Then, he discovered a passion as a journalist working for several newspapers as a parliamentary reporter.

Although Hazlitt was lauded for brilliant prose at the time, political rivals ultimately branded him a quack. He died penniless in 1830, and his works were never printed again. A small movement began in 2003 to revive his reputation, but little of his work is still available to study.

This quote is likely from one of his essays written during his post-journalism career. Hazlitt wrote essays about politics, religion, and criticisms of artwork like Shakespeare’s plays. I love this quote because it essentially means you don’t know what you’re talking about if you haven’t tried it.

The Hazlitt’s Hotel is named after the ill-begotten author. The boutique hotel is in Soho, London, in the same building where Hazlitt last lived.

“A bend in the road is not the end of the road unless you fail to make the turn.” – Helen Keller

Helen Keller lost sight and hearing after an illness when she was 19 months old. After several years of communicating with homemade hand signals, her parents hired Anne Sullivan. The lifelong companion taught Keller American Sign Language, how to read braille, and how to write. Keller became the first deaf and blind person in the United States to graduate with a bachelor’s degree.

Keller became an activist for people with disabilities, women’s suffrage, and labor rights. She published 12 books and dozens of articles during her lifetime. Working with organizations like the American Foundation for the Blind and the American Civil Liberties Union, Keller traveled around the world giving speeches.

“A bend in the road is not the end of the road unless you fail to make the turn.” One of Keller’s many notable quotes is about optimism. Never give up, she championed.

But it’s also a great road trip quote. On the surface, you could take this as a suggestion to drive safely. But dig a little deeper, and the meaning as a road trip quote is apparent: the road trip only ends when you don’t turn onto the next road.

“The freedom of the open road is seductive, serendipitous and absolutely liberating.” –Aaron Lauritsen

Little is known of the self-published author Aaron Lauritsen aside from the details of his lone novel, 100 Days Drive . He’s a “former professional soldier and small business owner turned wanderer.”

After a painful divorce in 2013, Lauritsen followed a growing trend of selling all his possessions, picking up stakes, and hitting the road. After a 30,000-mile road trip through 38 states and 7 Canadian provinces, he published a book about discovering himself on the open road.

“The freedom of the open road is seductive, serendipitous and absolutely liberating.” This quote from his memoir was probably more of a reflection on his life at the moment than a suggestion to others. But it works great as a suggestion, as well.

“When all’s said and done, all roads lead to the same end. So it’s not so much which road you take, as how you take it.” – Charles de Lint

Unlike many quotes that sprang into existence from public speeches or interviews, this quote by Canadian writer Charles de Lint comes from the pages of his urban fantasy novel, Greenmantle . Urban fantasy is a subgenre that places fantastical elements in the modern world, like Stephen King’s Carrie and the 1960s television show Bewitched . Inspired by these successes, de Lint authored several urban fantasy novels beginning in the 1980s.

Published in 1988, Greenmantle is one of de Lint’s earliest novels. It’s an acquired taste, though, and one I have never been fond of trying.

The quote from the book is memorable and appropriate for describing how it’s the journey, not the destination, that should mean the most during a road trip. I like this quote for its symbolic meaning, although I’m certain de Lint was not thinking about a road trip when he wrote it.

“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I, I took the one less traveled by.”  – Robert Frost

Born in San Francisco, Robert Frost was just twenty years old when he published his first poem. By his death over six decades later, he’d won four Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry and etched his name into history as one of America’s greatest poets.

The Road Not Taken is one of his most frequently quoted poems. But it’s also one of his most misunderstood. It was the first poem in Frost’s debut collection, Mountain Interval , published in 1916.

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—

I took the one less traveled by.

People have always interpreted the poem as symbolic of standing at a crossroads and choosing the course of your life. By picking the road less traveled, you charted your own course instead of simply going with the flow.

Except that’s not at all what Frost intended.

A later line in the poem notes the roads had been worn about the same. The poem wasn’t about which road you chose but which you didn’t .

And that’s why this is a great road trip quote. It doesn’t matter which road you drive. One way or another, you’ll eventually get to your destination. And whichever road you choose, you’ll miss something on the other road. Either way, just enjoy the drive!

“Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason.” – Jerry Seinfeld

Jerry Seinfeld was in his early twenties before becoming interested in stand-up comedy. He began auditioning at open mic nights and, in 1981, appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson , catapulting his career.

From 1989-1998, he starred in the NBC television show Seinfeld, playing a fictionalized version of himself. Often described as a “show about nothing,” the characters brought a comedic view to everyday life in New York’s Upper West Side.

In the second season episode, The Baby Shower , Elaine (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) hosts a baby shower for her friend at Seinfeld’s apartment while he travels to Buffalo to perform a comedy show. But when a blizzard causes the show to be canceled, Seinfeld returns home in the middle of the shower.

Just as he arrives home, Leslie – the soon-to-be-mother honored with the shower – comments about Seinfeld’s sudden return. He replied, “Well, Leslie, sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason.” It’s a subtle self-deprecating joke about how the life of a stand-up comedian – the road less traveled – is less traveled because it’s difficult to get a good gig.

But it’s also a good road trip quote if taken literally – and with a grain of salt. Sometimes, the road less traveled could feature a hidden feature or majestic vista. But sometimes, it’s less traveled because it’s an awful road that will damage your undercarriage and leave everyone nauseous.

“If you don’t know where you’re going, any road will take you there.” – George Harrison

George Harrison was an English musician and lead guitarist for The Beatles. By the time the world-famous band shockingly broke up in 1970, Harrison had already transitioned to a solo career as a songwriter and singer.

In 2001, Harrison died from lung cancer. The following year, his son Dhani was instrumental in posthumously releasing Harrison’s final album, Brainwashed . The opening track was titled Open Road , an homage to life on the road as a traveling artist.

“And if you don’t know where you’re going / Any road will take you there.” The last two lines of the chorus were Harrison lamenting that his tour schedule often meant he didn’t know where he was going next because he wasn’t the one driving the bus!

But if you are doing the driving, it’s a great road trip quote. I think it makes a great motto for a spontaneous road trip with no particular destination.

“Don’t keep forever on the public road, going only where others have gone and following one after the other like a flock of sheep. Leave the beaten track occasionally and dive into the woods. Every time you do so you will be certain to find something that you have never seen before.” – Alexander Graham Bell

In 1914, Alexander Graham Bell – the notable telephone inventor – gave a graduation address in Washington, D.C. The National Geographic Magazine published his address the following month.

In the address, Bell shared an experience about walking through Nova Scotia one day and leaving the path behind to hike into the woods, and at the bottom of a gully just fifty feet away, he found a gorgeous stream he’d never seen before.

Later in his address, Bell used the above quote as a metaphor for life. As an inventor, Bell frequently left the “public road” to do something different. The result was the first telephone that eventually led to the smartphone you are probably using to read this.

“ I will not follow where the path may lead, but I will go where there is no path, and I will leave a trail.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Like many popular quotes, a version of this one is often incorrectly attributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson. However, the famous poet never wrote anything remotely resembling this quote.

“I will not follow where the path may lead, but I will go where there is no path, and I will leave a trail.” This line appeared in “Wind-Wafted Wild Flowers” by Muriel Strode and was first published in 1903. The metaphorical poem was about keeping an open mind and accepting the world around you.

Literally, the line is often lamented by park managers across the country. “Stay on the trail” signs are frequently posted along state and national park hiking trails. Sometimes, these signs warn that wandering off the trail can be dangerous, but more often, it’s just courteous so as not to destroy fragile vegetation.

But metaphorically, as a road trip quote, it’s like other quotes about taking the road less traveled. Unless you’re blazing a trail with an oxen-drawn wagon across the Rockies, you’re not leaving a trail behind where you drive. However, you could take a route not suggested by Google Maps, make your own adventure, and leave a new trail for others to follow.

“If you come to a fork in the road, take it.” – Yogi Berra

The funny thing about this quote from legendary baseball player and manager Yogi Berra is that he did say it – but not in the way most people think he said it.

Yogi Berra played 19 seasons in Major League Baseball as a catcher for the New York Yankees – but his final season was with their crosstown rival New York Mets. After retiring from playing, Berra coached for the Yankees, Mets, and Houston Astros. Finally, Berra retired in 1989. 

In 1998, Berra published The Yogi Book: I Really Didn’t Say Everything I Said . In the book, Berra explains the story behind one of his most famous quotes. He gave directions to his house to Joe Garagiola, a close friend and fellow baseball player. When he said, “If you come to a fork in the road, take it,” it was because either direction he went would eventually lead to Berra’s house.

I think that’s why this is such a great road trip quote, but you must understand the story behind it. The quote simply means you’ll eventually get there whichever way you go.

“Because the greatest part of a road trip isn’t arriving at your destination. It’s all the wild stuff that happens along the way.” – Emma Chase 

Emma Chase is a New York Times bestselling author of steamy romance novels. Her debut novel, Tangled , published in 2014, is centered around Drew Evens, a playboy businessman in New York City. The book was the first in a four-part series that included Twisted , Tamed , and Tied .

In Tamed , the focus shifts to Drew’s best friend, Matthew Fisher, as he navigates the course of love in the Big Apple. One of the lines of dialogue in the book is this quote, “Because the greatest part of a road trip isn’t arriving at your destination. It’s all the wild stuff that happens along the way.”

It’s very similar to “It’s not the destination, it’s the journey” by Ralph Waldo Emerson. But with a modern twist on the familiar words. And it’s an excellent road trip quote.

“If you’re on a road trip, you need driving music.” – Edgar Wright

British-born Edgar Wright began his illustrious filmmaking career with comedy series and movies. After the critical success of Spaced , a sitcom featuring two Londoners who move in with each other after meeting only once, launched his career. He followed up with critical hits Shaun of the Dead , Hot Fuzz , and Scott Pilgrim vs. the World .

In 2017, Wright made a dramatic shift with the action-thriller Baby Driver . Starring Ansel Elgort, Lily James, Jon Bernthal, and Jon Hamm, the movie is about Baby (Ansel Elgort), a slick getaway driver for bank robbers.

But the interesting twist on the movie – and motive behind this quote – was explained by Kevin Spacey’s character, Doc, “He had an accident when he was a kid. Still has a hum in the drum. Plays music to drown it out.”

Baby (Elgort) plays music on his iPod through wired earbuds throughout the movie. Wright used this as an opportunity to craft a unique soundtrack for the film featuring classic hits from The Beach Boys, The Commodores, and John Spencer Blues Explosion. The music was so important to the film that Wright secured the licensing rights to every song before filming started.

During the onslaught of interviews following the smashing hit, Wright talked about his solo road trip across the United States ten years before making the movie. He told Newsweek it was “one of the best things I’ve ever done, my kind of Jack Kerouac moment.”

And during the interview, he uttered one of my favorite road trip quotes, “If you’re on a road trip, you need driving music.” Just as Wright has a playlist for road trips, I have a playlist of hit songs perfect for the open road.

Just in case you’re interested, you can listen to the Baby Driver Original Soundtrack on Apple Music or Spotify .

“It’s a road trip! It’s about adventure! It’s not like we have somewhere to go.” – John Green

Indian-born and Florida-raised John Green graduated from college with a double major in English and religious studies. In 2005, he published his first book, Looking for Alaska , a moderately successful young adult novel that launched his writing career.

He followed up with several other novels over the next few years until 2012, when he published The Fault in Our Stars . The story centers on 16-year-old Hazel Grace Lancaster, a girl with thyroid cancer. During a support group meeting, she meets and ultimately falls in love with Augustus Waters, the survivor of osteosarcoma. The Fault in Our Stars was adapted into a major motion picture starring Shailene Woodley and Ansel Elgort.

But the quote above comes from Green’s second novel, An Abundance of Katherines , published in 2006. The book is about Colin Singleton, a young man obsessed with dating girls named Katherine. After getting dumped by the nineteenth Katherine, Colin and his best friend Hassan embark on a cross-country road trip, making it as far as Gutshot, Tennessee. After spending the summer in the small rural town, Colin falls in love with a local girl – named Lindsey – and the trio leaves the town on another road trip.

“It’s a road trip! It’s about adventure! It’s not like we have somewhere to go.” The novel’s plot revolves around two road trips – the first when Colin and Hassan leave Chicago and the second when Colin, Hassan, and Lindsey leave Gutshot.

This is a great road trip quote because it draws attention to the greatest asset of a road trip – untethered adventure. If the road trip is more about the journey than the destination, then it’s not like you have somewhere to go.

“The open road is a beckoning, a strangeness, a place where a man can lose himself.” – William Least Heat-Moon

In 1978, 38-year-old William Least Heat-Moon separated from his wife and lost his job as a teacher. Staring at an early mid-life crisis, Heat-Moon converted his personal vehicle into a camper van and embarked on a three-month road trip around the United States.

Heat-Moon was inspired by the “blue highways,” the color Rand McNally chose for two-lane rural roads. After completing his 13,000-mile journey, he published a book named Blue Highways . The travelogue chronicles his self-reflecting adventure, the interesting characters he met along the way, and the history of the small towns he visited.

“The open road is a beckoning, a strangeness, a place where a man can lose himself.” This quote from the book is typical of his writing style – plain prose but with deep meanings. It’s a great road trip quote because it sums up the belief that the road trip is about the journey, not the destination.

“A journey of a thousand miles starts beneath one’s feet.” – Laozi

This is certainly the oldest quote appearing on this list. Sometime in the late 4 th century BC, Laozi wrote the Tao De Ching , an ancient Chinese text on Taoist philosophy and religion. The Tao De Ching is divided into 81 short chapters and contains only 5,000 Chinese characters.

Chapter 64 of the text includes the quote above, although in a slightly different version, “A journey of a thousand Chinese miles starts beneath one’s feet.”

The common translation, although erroneous by any translating method, reads like this, “A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”

Either way, the philosophical meaning of the quote is apparent. A long journey starts at the beginning, with you consciously deciding to take it. Although more commonly applied to life-changing decisions, I think this also makes a great road trip quote.

Before the road trip can begin, you have to choose to take a road trip. Put all your worries aside, and just enjoy the ride.

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Road Trip Quotes: 125+ Best Quotes To Inspire You To Hit The Road!

Looking for inspiration to hit the road? I have put together some of the best road trip quotes to inspire you to get in your car and drive! Whether on your own, with friends or with family, these quotes will motivate you to take that road trip you have always wanted to take. (And make sure to check out my complete road trip packing list and road trip music playlist to make sure you have all your road trip essentials before you go.)

Road Trip Quotes

I love road trips. Unlike trips by airplane, train or boat, one of the great things about road trips is that you don’t need to make plans too far in advance if you don’t want to. You can always jump in your car and drive and see where the road takes you.  You can be spontaneous instead of having to catch a flight but if you prefer to plan your trips you can do that too. You can do a quick weekend getaway or you can plan an epic cross country road trip.  Even if you are flying to another continent, you can always rent a car or campervan while you are there, explore your destination at your own pace and visit more off the beaten path places that you would otherwise miss.

I hope you enjoy these inspiring road trip quotes .

1. “ Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and enjoy the journey. ” – Babs Hoffman

2. “ nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road. ” — jack kerouac, 3. “ two roads diverged in a wood, and i – i took the one less traveled by. ”   – robert frost, 4. “ still, round the corner, there may wait, a new road or a secret gate. ” – j. r. r. tolkien, 5. “ some beautiful paths can’t be discovered without getting lost. ” – erol ozan, 6. “ if you don’t know where you are going, any road will get you there. ” – lewis carroll, 7. “ do not follow where the path may lead. go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. ” – ralph waldo emerson, 8. “ i climb behind the steering wheel… i drive off immediately without once looking back; it’s a long journey but it leads to freedom. ” – corinne hofmann, 9. “ to awaken alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world. you are surrounded by adventure. you have no idea of what is in store for you, but you will, if you are wise and know the art of travel, let yourself go on the stream of the unknown. ” – freya stark, 10. “ i just go with the flow, i follow the yellow brick road. i don’t know where it’s going to lead me, but i follow it. ” – grace jones.

11. “ I take to the open road, healthy, free, the world before me. ” – Walt Whitman

12. “ god made the world round so we would never be able to see too far down the road. ” – isak dinesen, 13. “ driving at night is about communicating with lights. ” – lukhman pambra, 14. “ i may not have gone where i intended to go, but i think i have ended up where i intended to be. ” – douglas adams, 15. “ never underestimate the therapeutic power of driving and listening to very loud music. ” — unknown.

16. “ I travel not to go anywhere but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move. ” – Robert Louis Stevenson

17. “ our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. but no matter, the road is life. ” – jack kerouac, 18. “ road trips are the equivalent of human wings. ask me to go on one, anywhere. we’ll stop in every small town and learn the history and stories, feel the ground and capture the spirit. then we’ll turn it into our own story that will live inside our history to carry with us, always. because stories are more important than things. ” – victoria erickson, 19. “ good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter. ” – izaak walton, 20. “ what it takes to realize everything is fine around you a road trip to the mountains where your soul dwells in the echoes of the winds that carry fragments of clouds with them. what it takes to realize world is going back to chaos and infinite hurry end of the aforementioned road trip. ” – crestless wave, 21. “ if you’re on a road trip, you need driving music. ” – edgar wright, 22. “ part of us believes the new car is better because it lasts longer. but, in fact, that’s the worst thing about the new car. it will stay around to disappoint you, whereas a trip to europe is over. it evaporates. it has the good sense to go away, and you are left with nothing but a wonderful memory. ” – daniel gilbert, 23. “ road trips required a couple of things: a well-balanced diet of caffeine, salt and sugar and an excellent selection of tunes—oh, and directions. ” – jenn mckinlay.

24. “ Because the greatest part of a road trip isn’t arriving at your destination. It’s all the wild stuff that happens along the way. ” — Emma Chase

25. “ sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason. ” – jerry seinfeld, 26. “ a road trip is a way for the whole family to spend time together and annoy each other in interesting new places. ” – tom lichtenheld, 27. “ we all have that one friend who is either on a road-trip or planning a road-trip or thinking about a road-trip or talking to people who are on road-trip or posting quotes about road-trip. ” – crestless wave, 28. “ i’m on the road constantly. i’m a nomad. i don’t really have a home right now. i don’t identify with one place in particular. ” – daya, 29. “ map out your future – but do it in pencil. the road ahead is as long as you make it. make it worth the trip. ” – jon bon jovi, 30. “ now, on this road trip, my mind seemed to uncrinkle, to breathe, to present to itself a cure for a disease it had not, until now, known it had. ” – elizabeth berg, 31. “ a passenger on a road journey is in the hands of a driver; a reader embarking on a book is in the hands of a narrator. ” – romesh gunesekera, 32. “ the freedom of the open road is seductive, serendipitous and absolutely liberating. ” – aaron lauritsen, 33. “ i love road trips. you get into this zen rhythm; throw the sense of time out the window. ” – miriam toews, 34. “ i love being on the road. i love that lifestyle, traveling city to city, rocking out and moving on to the next place. ” – caleb johnson, 35. “ wherever you get to is better than where you started. to stay on the road is a massive achievement. ” – anthony joshua, 36. “ to move, to breathe, to fly, to float, to gain all while you give, to roam the  road s of lands remote, to travel is to live. ” – hans christian andersen.

37. “ Sometimes the most scenic roads in life are the detours you didn’t mean to take. ” – Angela N. Blount

38. “ afoot and light-hearted i take to the open  road . ” – walt whitman, 39. “ that’s why i love road trips, dude. it’s like doing something without actually doing anything. ” – john green, 40. “ if you make the mistake of looking back too much, you aren’t focused enough on the road in front of you. ” – brad paisley, 41. “ all he needed was a wheel in his hand and four on the road. ” – jack kerouac, 42. “ you can be writing every day. when you go on a road trip, the trip itself becomes part of the story. ” ― steve rushin, 43. “ i can speak to my soul only when the two of us are off exploring deserts or cities or mountains or roads. ” ― paulo coelho, 44. “ roads are a record of those who have gone before. ” ― rebecca solnit, 45. “ because he had no place he could stay in without getting tired of it and because there was nowhere to go but everywhere, keep rolling under the stars… ” – jack kerouac, 46. “ what you’ve done becomes the judge of what you’re going to do – especially in other people’s minds. when you’re traveling, you are what you are right there and then. people don’t have your past to hold against you. no yesterdays on the road. ” – william least heat moon, 47. “ if you come to a fork in the road, take it .” – yogi berra, 48. “ some roads aren’t meant to be travelled alone. ” ― chinese proverb, 49. “ i see my path, but i don’t know where it leads. not knowing where i’m going is what inspires me to travel it. ” – rosalia de castro, 50. “ the open road is a beckoning, a strangeness, a place where a man can lose himself. ” – william least heat moon, 51. “ life is one big road with lots of signs. so when you riding through the ruts, don’t complicate your mind. flee from hate, mischief, and jealousy. don’t bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. wake up and live ” – bob marley, 52. “ the best part of a road trip isn’t arriving at your destination … it’s the fast food along the way. ” — unknown, 53. “ look for chances to take the less-traveled roads. there are no wrong turns. ” — susan magsamen, 54. “ you know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world. ” – william hazlitt, 55. “ roads were made for journeys , not destinations. ” – confucius.

56. “ The road is there, it will always be there. You just have to decide when to take it. ” –  Chris Humphrey

57. “ the road must eventually lead to the whole world. ” –  jack kerouac.

58. “ No road is long with good company. ” – Turkish Proverb

59. “ sometimes you find yourself in the middle of nowhere, and sometimes in the middle of nowhere, you find yourself. ” — unknown, 60. “ take the long way home. ” — unknown, 61. “ happiness is a road trip with a good playlist. ” — unknown, 62. “ please understand, i have been waiting to leave ever since i figured out that there were roads willing to take me anywhere i wanted to go. ” — unknown, 63. “ i’m not lost. i’m exploring. ” — jana stanfield, 64. “ one’s destination is never a place, but rather a new way of seeing things. ” — henry miller, 65. “ making memories one road trip at a time. ” — unknown, 66. “ road trips aren’t measured by mile markers, but by moments. ” — unknown, 67. “ and just like that, we’re on our way to everywhere. ” – emery lord, 68. “ every journey is simultaneously a beginning and an ending: i was leaving my old life behind and starting on a road trip to find a new me. ” – debi tolbert duggar, 69. “ life is too short to not go on that spontaneous road trip. ” – unknown, 70. “ when all’s said and done, all roads lead to the same end. so it’s not so much which road you take, as how you take it. ” – charles de lint.

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Perfect inspiration for my pictures when I don’t know what to write, so I’m always looking for the things like these 🙂

I’m so inspired to take a road trip now! I love these quotes, because they make you realise life really is for living, and travel only adds to that. I really like that Blount quote, it’s so clever and true!

I really appreciate the notion of some routes being only open to the people who are willing to get lost, that really resonates with me!

Road trips are really fun. My boyfriend and I, really go for a road trip at least once a week. Love the quote “That’s why I love road trips, dude. It’s like doing something without actually doing anything.”

My mom always tells me “travel you are not a tree”, I really loved the other Quotes, thank you so much.

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100 Best Road Trip Quotes: Funny, Thought Provoking and Inspiring

Do you ever need a little pick me up or some motivation to get out on the open road again? If so, then these quotes are for you! We’ve got 100 of our favourite quotes that will inspire your next trip. Get ready to hit the gas pedal and enjoy the ride because we’re going on an adventure together with these inspiring words.. From inspirational quotes to funny quotes, this list has it all. If you’re looking for something new to read on your next vacation or just want some inspiration before hitting the open road, then look no further than this list of fun and interesting quotes!

Long Drive Road Trip Quotes

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The appeal of the open road can’t be beat. Being in a car and driving down that long stretch gives you time to really experience what is around on your way, as well as take breaks along the way. There is a certain feeling that comes with driving for hours on end through mountains or along coastal cliffs without any set destination in mind: freedom. The sense of adventure and exploration being rewarded by beautiful views as you turn another corner can be exhilarating. The following quotes are so true for those who love being out there and take long drives!

1. “ Sometimes the most scenic roads in life are the detours you didn’t mean to make. ” – Angela N Blount

2. “ No road is long with good company. ” – Turkish proverb

3. “ The road goes on forever and the party never ends. ” – Robert Earl Keen

4. “ Sometimes the best therapy is a long drive, upbeat music and good company. ” – Unknown

5. “ Really in the mood for a long drive with no real destination. ” – Unknown

6. “ Take the long way home. ” – Unknown

7. “ A long drive to nowhere is the best way to clear the mind. ” – Meggan Roxanne

Road trips are great adventures for those who want to take their time getting there without worrying about having enough vacation days left when they arrive! These quotes are for those adventure seekers, who would likes spontaneity and being on the open road!

8. “ Because the greatest part of a road trip isn’t arriving at your destination. It’s all the wild stuff that happens along the way. ” – Emma Chase

9. “ Wherever you get to is better than where you started. To stay on the road is a massive achievement. ” – Anthony Joshua

10. “ Some beautiful paths can’t be discovered without getting lost. ” – Erol Ozan

11. “ The freedom of the open road is seductive, serendipitous and absolutely liberating ” – Aaron Lauritsen

12. “ Even when I visit the most beautiful countries in the world, it’s the people I come home telling stories of. ” – We Dream of Travel

13. “ Look for chances to take the less-travelled roads. There are no wrong turns. ” – Susan Magsamen

14. “ We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we’re curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths. ” – Walt Disney

15. “ The road less travelled is the road to adventure. ” – Unknown

16. “ Nothing adventured, nothing attained. ” – Peter McWilliams

17. “ We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm, and adventure. There is no end to the adventures we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open. ” – Jawaharlal Nehru

18.“ Adventure, without it, why live? ” – Hortense Odlum

19. “ If you’re not lost, you’re not much of an explorer. ” – John Perry Barlow

20. “ Get your motor runnin’, Head out on the highway, Lookin’ for adventure… ” – Steppenwolf, Born to be Wild

21. “ It’s a road trip! It’s about adventure! . . . It’s not like we have somewhere to go. ” – John Green

Everyone has their favourite way of spending an extended amount of family time together – but what could be better than a trip with your loved ones? Here are some quotes that illustrate the importance and beauty in sharing those moments.

22.“ Two roads diverged in a wood, and I – I took the one less travelled by. ” –Robert Frost

23. “ And just like that, we’re on our way to everywhere. ” – Emery Lord

24. “ Just grab a friend and take a ride, together upon the open road. ” – The Goofy Movie

25. “ We are all travellers in the wilderness of the world & the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend. ” –Robert Louis Stevenson

26. “ A road trip is a way for the whole family to spend time together and annoy each other in interesting new places. ” – Unknown

27. “ A family that travels together, stays together. ” – Unknown

28.  “ You make me wanna roll my windows down and cruise. ” — Florida Georgia Line, Cruise

If you need a break from the seriousness of long drives, then funny quotes may be just what you’re looking for. While many people use these humorous phrases to keep themselves entertained on their journey or during traffic, they can also act as relief if one is feeling stressed out. Below are some examples that will make your drive more enjoyable!

29. “ It doesn’t matter how old you get, buying snacks for a road trip should always look like an unsupervised 9 year old was given $100. ” – Unknown

30. “ We all have that one friend who is either on a road trip or planning a road trip or thinking about a road-trip or talking to people who are on a road trip or posting quotes about a road trip. ” –Crestless Wave

31. “ People having babies and getting married… and I’m like: where am I road tripping to next? ” – Unknown

32. “ That’s why I love road trips dude. It’s like doing something without actually doing anything. ” – Unknown

33. “ I feel like most of my problems could be solved with a trip to … anywhere. ” – Unknown

34. “ Yeah, working is great…but have you tried travelling? ” – Unknown

35. “ Never underestimate the therapeutic power of driving and listening to very loud music. ” – Unknown

36. “ Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and enjoy the journey. ” – Babs Hoffman

37. “ Road trips require a couple of things: a well balanced diet of caffeine, salt and sugar, and an excellent set of tunes – oh, and directions. ” – Jenn McKinlay

Here is a collection of classic quotes that are short and sweet!

38. “ A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles. ” – Tim Cahill

39. “ Take only memories, leave only footprints. ” – Unknown

40. “ Life is beautiful if you are on the road to somewhere. ” – Orhan Pamuk, The New Life

41. “ It feels good to be lost in the right direction. ” – Unknown

42. “ Live your life by a compass, not a clock. ” – Unknown

43. “ Road trips aren’t measured by mile markers, but by moments. ” – Unknown

44. “ Always take the scenic route. ” – Unknown

45. “ Making memories, one road trip at a time. ” – Unknown

46. “ Happiness is a road trip. ” – Unknown

47. “ There are no mistakes. Only new paths to explore. ” – Gregory David Roberts

48.“ Adventure is out there. ” – Unknown

49. “ There is something about the momentum of travel that makes you want to just keep moving, to never stop. ” – Bill Bryson

50. “ Roads were made for journeys, not destinations. ”– Unknown

Road trips are a great way for couples to reconnect and make some awesome memories. The best thing about them is that they’re always new, even if you do the same trip every year. You can’t go wrong with road trips as an opportunity of getting back on the same page in your relationship! Unlike vacations where everything feels so familiar because it’s just like all other times before, experiencing something together again such as driving along scenic roads will allow both parties involved to explore anew without feeling bored or repetitive.

51. “ Couples who travel together, stay together. ” – Unknown

52. “ Let’s find some beautiful places to get lost together. ” – Unknown

53. “ It doesn’t matter where you are going, it’s who you have beside you. ” – Unknown

54. “ Oh darling, let’s be adventurers! ” – Unknown

55. “ I want to see the world with you. ” – Unknown

56. “ Happiness is… planning a trip to somewhere new, with someone you love. ” – Unknown

57. “ And we will travel together and just be in love forever. ” – Unknown

There is something to be said for the freedom and independence that comes with traveling alone. It can provide a sense of security, but it doesn’t always have to make things lonely. Quotes below are meant as companions on your journey from one place to another 😉

58. “ I’m on the road constantly. I’m a nomad. I don’t really have a home right now. I don’t identify with one place in particular. ” – Daya

59. “ I see my path, but I don’t know where it leads. Not knowing where I’m going is what inspires me to travel it. ” – Rosalia De Castro

60. “ I just go with the flow, I follow the yellow brick road. I don’t know where it’s going to lead me, but I follow it. ” – Grace Jones

61. “ Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road. ” – Jack Kerouac

62. “ I am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world. ” – Mary Anne Radmacher

63. “ I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list. ” – Susan Sontag

64. “ My favourite thing is to go where I’ve never been. ” – Diane Arbus

65. “ Every journey is simultaneously a beginning and an ending: I was leaving my old life behind and starting on a road trip to find a new me. ” – Debi Tolbert Duggar, Riding Soul-O

66. “ On the road again, Goin’ places that I’ve never been, Seein’ things that I may never see again, And I can’t wait to get on the road again ” – Willie Nelson, On The Road Again

67. “ I love being on the road. I love that lifestyle, traveling city to city, rocking out and moving on to the next place. ” – Caleb Johnson

68. “ Afoot and light-hearted I take to the open road, Healthy, free, the world before me, the long brown path before me leading wherever I choose. ” – Walt Whitman

69. “ I travel not to go anywhere but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move. ” – Robert Louis Stevenson

70. “ I see my path, but I don’t know where it leads. Not knowing where I’m going is what inspires me to travel it. ” – Rosalía de Castro

71. “ I can speak to my soul only when the two of us are off exploring deserts or cities or mountains or roads. ” – Paulo Coelho

72. “ When you go on a road trip, the trip itself becomes part of the story. ” – Steve Rushin

73. “ I love road trips. You get into this Zen rhythm; throw the sense of time out the window. ” – Miriam Toews

74. “ I love being on the road. I love that lifestyle, traveling city to city, rocking out and moving on to the next place. ” – Caleb Johnson

The best way to get away from the every day grind is to take a road trip. Road trips are great for clearing your mind and freshening up your outlook on life. Here are some of our inspirational quotes about travel that should help you if you’re feeling stuck or just need a little inspiration before hitting the open road!

75. “ Look at life through the windshield, not the rearview mirror. ” – Byrd Baggett

76. “ Do Not Follow Where The Path May Lead. Go Instead Where There Is No Path And Leave A Trail. ” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

77. “ The freedom of the open road is seductive, serendipitous and absolutely liberating ” – Aaron Lauritsen

78. “ Every journey is simultaneously a beginning and an ending: I was leaving my old life behind and starting on a road trip to find a new me. ” – Debi Tolbert Duggar

79. “ Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling. ” – Unknown

80. “ To move, to breathe, to fly, to float, To gain all while you give, To roam the roads of lands remote, To travel is to live. ” – Hans Christian Andersen,

81. “ We had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life. ” – Jack Kerouac, On the Road: the Original Scroll

82. “ The world is too big to stay in one place, and life is too short to do just one thing. ” – Unknown

83. “ If we wait until we are ready, we will be waiting for the rest of our life! ” – Lemony Snicket

84. “ Live life with no excuses, travel with no regret. ” – Oscar Wilde

85. “ Fifty years from now, when you’re looking back at your life, don’t you want to be able to say you had the guts to get in the car? ” – Transformer3

86. “ Travel brings power and love back into your life. ” – Rumi Jalalud-Din

87. “ Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But that’s okay. The journey changes you; it should change you. ” – Anthony Bourdain

One of the most excitement filled parts of any vacation is when you realize that it’s not a dream. That moment where one wakes up from their sleep to find themselves on an adventure, and everything they’re experiencing for real. The road trips people take are an important part of life. We all have our own experience with traveling and seeing new places, but we also share some sayings about this time. Here are a few road trip sayings to keep you going!

88. “ Once a year, go somewhere you have never been before. ” – Dalai Lama

89. “ There’s nowhere to go but everywhere… ” – Jack Kerouac, On the Road

90. “ The pleasure we derive from journeys is perhaps dependent more on the mindset with which we travel than on the destination we travel to. ” – Alain de Botton

90. “ A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving. ” – Lao Tzu

91. “ We’re almost there, but nowhere near it. All that matters is that we’re going. ” – Gilmore Girls

92. “ Not all those who wander are lost. ” – J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

93. “ The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. ” – Lao Tzu

94. “ The entire road trip could be summed up as one giant attempt to keep from crashing the car during fits of rage and fits of hysteria. ” – Kari Martindale

95. “ Sometimes the road less travelled is less travelled for a reason. ” – Jerry Seinfeld

96. “ A passenger on a road journey is in the hands of a driver; a reader embarking on a book is in the hands of a narrator. ” – Romesh Gunesekera

97. “ Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and enjoy the journey. ” – Babs Hoffman

98. “ Look for chances to take the less-travelled roads. There are no wrong turns. ” – Susan Magsamen

99. “ Road trips are the equivalent of human wings. Ask me to go on one, any one. We’ll stop in every small town and learn the history and the stories, feel the ground, and capture the spirit. ” – Unknown

100. “ Map out your future – but do it in pencil. The road ahead is as long as you make it. Make it worth the trip. ” – Bon Jovi

Final Thoughts on Road Trip Quotes

The time has come to take a break, and go on that road trip you’ve been dreaming about. We hope these quotes have given you the inspiration needed for your journey! In addition to being entertaining, we encourage our readers to use this as a way of finding travel destinations or simply taking some much-needed vacation time with friends and family members. What is your favourite quote? Let us know in the comments below!

Jumana is a travel writer and technologist living in the United Kingdom, born and brought up in India. While she is busy with her full time job as a computer technologist, she is an active explorer during her spare time. She has been exploring states of India since she was 15 and then around the world since she moved to the west in her 20s. Her favourite travel style is “On the Road” and she has perfected the art of road trip planning, covering multiple famous and undiscovered routes around Europe, UK and USA. She is on a mission to road trip the planet and learn more about the cultures around the world.

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When I was travelling from Munich to London, i wrote this blog . i really enjoyed this trip quotes wanna thanks to the writer for this amazing blog.

100 Road Trip Quotes to Inspire Your Next Adventure

I don’t know about you, but I’m a sucker for road trips. There’s just something so mysterious and alluring about the open road that I simply can’t resist. If you’re like me, here are 100 road trip quotes that will inspire your next adventure.

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Iceland’s Ring Road, the Canadian Rockies, and USA’s Pacific Coast Highway are three of my favorite road trip routes of all time. Let me know yours in the comments!

Best Road Trip Quotes

• Life is too short to not go on that spontaneous road trip.
• “Roads were made for journeys, not destinations.” – Confucius.
• It feels good to be lost in the right direction.
• Making memories, one road trip at a time.
• Today feels like a good day for a road trip.
• Happiness is a road trip with a good playlist.
• Road trips aren’t measured by mile markers, but by moments.
• Difficult roads often lead to beautiful destinations.
• “It’s not the destination, it’s the journey.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson.
• “Discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” – Marcel Proust.

• “People don’t take trips, trips take people.” – John Steinbeck.
• “One’s destination is never a place, but rather a new way of seeing things.” – Henry Miller.
• I don’t know where I’m going, but I’m going. Are you coming with me?
• “Sometimes you find yourself in the middle of nowhere and sometimes in the middle of nowhere you find yourself.” – Stacy Westfall.
• There’s no problem so big that a road trip can’t solve.
• “Because the greatest part of a road trip isn’t arriving at your destination. It’s all the wild stuff that happens along the way.” – Emma Chase.
• Escape the ordinary and breathe the fresh air of unfamiliar places.
• Keeping the windows down and letting the wind blow my worries away.
• Turns out, I just needed a day off and a dirt road.
• Ultimately, every road leads to the whole world.

• “Live your life by a compass, not a clock.” – Stephen Covey.
• “My favourite thing to do is to go where I’ve never been.” – Diane Arbus.
• “Look at life through the windshield, not the rearview mirror.” – Byrd Baggett.

Short Road Trip Quotes

• Adventure awaits.
• On the road, be back never.
• Get in the car!
• Embracing my inner road tripper.
• Hey GPS, let’s take the scenic route today.
• Life is a highway.
• Road trip, won’t quit.

• Racing with the wind.
• Happiness is a road trip.
• Always take the scenic route.
• Let’s travel where the Wi-Fi is weak.
• Living the road trip aesthetic.
• Feeling like a road trip day.
• Are we there yet?
• Adventure is just bad planning.
• Windows down, music up.
• The mountains are calling and I must go.

• Cruising’ is my forever mood.
• I wish that road trips could pay my bills.
• And so the adventure begins…
• I’m not lost, I’m exploring.
• Here today, gone tomorrow.
• Wanderlust and highway dust.
• All I want for Christmas is a road trip.
• Take the long way home.
• I’ve got a crush on the world.
• Discovering myself on a road trip.

• Road trip hair, don’t care.
• On the road again!
• Cruising down the highway of life.
• Hodophile – a lover of roads.
• Always say yes to a road trip.
• Sometimes the best therapy is a road trip.

Funny Road Trip Quotes

• Is it a real road trip if you don’t make at least one bad decision?
• “Kilometres are shorter than miles. Save gas, take your next trip in kilometres.” – George Carlin.
• Europeans: I drove 40 minutes to spend the weekend in Paris, then popped to Germany to visit family on the way home. Australians: I was in Queensland and drove for 18 hours. Now I’m still in Queensland.
• That’s why I love road trips, dude. It’s like doing something without actually doing anything.

• “We all have that one friend who is either on a road trip or planning a road trip or thinking about a road trip or talking to people who are on a road trip or posting quotes about a road trip.” – Crestless Wave.
• “Are we there yet?” = the most popular road trip quote of all time.
• Driving isn’t dangerous. Crashing is!
• This road trip is so long, I forgot all my passwords.
• If you don’t pick road trip snacks like an unattended kid with $20 in a gas station, you’re doing it wrong.
• Road tripping. AKA getting kicked repeatedly by my toddler.
• “Adventure, yeah. I guess that’s what you call it when everybody comes back alive.” – Mercedes Lackey.
• “The one thing that unites all human beings, regardless of age, gender, religion, economic status, or ethnic background, is that deep down inside, we all believe that we are above-average drivers.” – Dave Barry.

Family Road Trip Quotes

• “A road trip is a way for the whole family to spend time together and annoy each other in interesting and new places.” – Tom Lichtenheld.
• “The greatest legacy we can leave our children is happy memories.” – Og Mandino.
• “When you travel with your children, you are giving them something that can never be taken away… Experience, exposure, and a way of life.” – Pamela T. Chandler.
• “In the end, kids won’t remember that fancy toy you bought them. They will remember the time you spent with them.” – Kevin Heath.
• “Every day we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.” – Charles R Swindoll.

Road Trip with Friends Quotes

• Me, you, the radio, and the highway. Let’s go.
• Sometimes all you need is a good friend and a full tank of gas.
• Endless playlists + coffee + best friends = best road trip ever.
• Travel is better with friends.
• Some roads aren’t meant to be travelled alone.
• “No road is long with good company.” – Turkish Proverb.
• “A journey is measured in friends, rather than miles.” – Tim Chaill.
• A good friend listens to your adventures. A best friend makes them with you.
• You can pack for every occasion, but a good friend will always be the best thing you could bring!
• Life was meant for great adventure and close friends.
• “Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.” – Izaak Walton.
• There is a whole world out there. Pack your backpack, your best friend and go.
• Got my snacks, got my friends, got my music. Road trip ready.
• Friends that travel together, stay together.

Famous Road Trip Sayings

• “I may not have ended up where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.” – Douglas Adams.
• “If you don’t know where you are going, any road will get you there.” – Lewis Carroll.
• “You may not find a path, but you will find a way.” – Tom Wolfe.
• “Sometimes the most scenic roads in life are the detours you didn’t mean to make.” – Angela N. Blount.
• “Some beautiful paths can’t be discovered without getting lost.” – Erol Ozan.
• “Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go.” – T.S Eliot.
• “A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless.” – John Steinbeck.
• “She wasn’t where she had been. She wasn’t where she was going, but she was on her way.” – Jodi Hills.

Other Popular Road Trip Sayings

• “Two roads diverged in a wood, and I – I took the one less traveled by.” – Robert Frost.
• “Road trips require a couple of things: a well balanced diet of caffeine, salt and sugar, and an excellent set of tunes – oh, and directions.” – Jenn McKinlay.
• “Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirty.” – John Muir.
• “The open road is there, it will always be there. You just have to decide when to take it.” – Chris Humphrey.
• “Road trips are the equivalent of human wings. Ask me to go on one, any one. We’ll stop in every small town and learn the history and the stories, feel the ground, and capture the spirit. Then we’ll turn it into our own story that will live inside our history to carry with us. Always. Because stories are more important than things.” – Victoria Erickson

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120 Road Trip Quotes To Inspire You To Hit The Road 2024

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Looking for inspiration to hit the road? I’ve scoured the internet to create a bumper list of the most uplifting quotes about road trips that are designed to fuel your wanderlust and bring you one step closer to the open road .

Whether you’re looking for inspiration or for best road trip quotes or Instagram captions that will make you laugh, you’re in the right place!

Beautiful Road Quotes

• “Always take the scenic route, you never know what adventures you will find.”
• “Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and enjoy the journey.”  – Babs Hoffman
• “One’s destination is never a place, but rather a new way of seeing things.” –  Henry Miller
• “Map out your future – but do it in pencil. The road ahead is as long as you make it. Make it worth the trip.” –  Jon Bon Jovi
• “Look for chances to take the less-traveled roads. There are no wrong turns.” —  Susan Magsamen

Long Ride Quotes

• “Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason.” – Jerry Seinfeld
• “If you don’t know where you are going, any road will get you there.” –  Lewis Carroll
• “Roads are a record of those who have gone before.” ―  Rebecca Solnit
• “Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road.”  – Jack Kerouac
• “Sometimes you find yourself in the middle of nowhere, and sometimes in the middle of nowhere, you find yourself.”

Short Road Quotes and Sayings

These short road quotes are the perfect one liners for Instagram and capture the essence of a road trip to a T!

• “Happiness is a road trip with a good playlist. ”
• “It is better to travel well than to arrive.” – Buddha
• “Making memories one road trip at a time.”
• “If you come to a fork in the road, take it.” –  Yogi Berra
• “The road must eventually lead to the whole world.” –  Jack Kerouac

Best Long Drive Caption

• “Some roads aren’t meant to be traveled alone.” ―  Chinese Proverb
• “No road is long with good company.” –  Turkish Proverb
• “Roads were made for journeys, not destinations.” –  Confucius
• “Hard roads require a will of steel” – Mehmet Murat ildan
• “My life is the road, man. I need to keep moving.”

Inspirational Road Trip Quotes

• “The road is hard, and you have to get accustomed to it.”
• “It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.”
• “Road trips aren’t measured by mile markers, but by moments.”
• “Take the long way home.”

Funny Road Trip Quotes

If you’re heading on a road trip with friends, family or your partner and need a little bit inspiration before setting off, here is a selection of funny road trip quotes to make you laugh.

• “Road trips required a couple of things: a well-balanced diet of caffeine, salt and sugar and an excellent selection of tunes—oh, and directions.” –  Jenn McKinlay
• “People having babies and getting married…and I’m like: where am I road tripping to next?”
• “A road trip is a way for the whole family to spend time together and annoy each other in interesting new places.” –  Tom Lichtenheld
• “Kilometers are shorter than miles. Save gas, take your next trip in kilometers.”- George Carlin

Long Drive Quotes for Instagram

• “The best part of a road trip isn’t arriving at your destination … it’s the fast food along the way…”
• “I get emotionally attached to the cars ahead of me on long road trips.”
• “That’s why I love road trips, dude. It’s like doing something without actually doing anything.” –  John Green
• “It doesn’t matter how old you get, buying snacks for a road trip should always look like an unsupervised 9-year-old was given $100.”

Road Trip With Friends Quotes

If a road trip with friends is on the agenda, then check out this list of adventure road trip quotes, hand picked to inspire the journey.

• “Sometimes all you need is a great friend and a full tank of gas “
• “You make me wanna roll my windows down and cruise.”  —  Florida Georgia Line,  Cruise
• “It doesn’t matter where you’re going, it’s who you have beside you.”
• “Because the greatest part of a road trip isn’t arriving at your destination. It’s all the wild stuff that happens along the way.” –  Emma Chase
• Just grab a friend and take a ride, Together upon the open road”  – A Goofy Movie

Best Road Trip Caption

• “Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.” –  Izaak Walton
• “It’s a  road trip ! It’s about  adventure ! . . . It’s not like we have somewhere to  go .” –  John Green
• “I can speak to my soul only when the two of us are off exploring deserts or cities or mountains or roads.” ―  Paulo Coelho
• “Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.”  – Jack Kerouac
• “I want to go on a road trip. Just you, and me. The highway, the radio, the blue sky, the back roads, and windows down. We’ll talk about everything and nothing. We’ll sing our hearts out, and we’ll make memories we’ll never forget. Just you and me.”

Life Quotes about Road Trips

Here are some hand-picked long road trip quotes that show that travelling the open road isn’t much different to journeying through life.

• “Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” –  Ralph Waldo Emerson
• “My life is full of mistakes. They’re like pebbles that make a good road.”
• “If you make the mistake of looking back too much, you aren’t focused enough on the road in front of you.” –  Brad Paisley
• “Look at life through the windshield, not the rearview mirror.” –  Byrd Baggett

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• “Life is beautiful if you are on the road to somewhere.” — Orhan Pamuk
• “Every journey is simultaneously a beginning and an ending: I was leaving my old life behind and starting on a road trip to find a new me.” –  Debi Tolbert Duggar
• “Nobody travels on the road to success without a puncture or two.”
• “Sometimes the most scenic roads in life are the detours you didn’t mean to take.” –  Angela N. Blount

Best Quotes on Road Trips

• “I take to the open road, healthy, free, the world before me.” –  Walt Whitman
• “The open road is a beckoning, a strangeness, a place where a man can lose himself.” –  William Least Heat Moon
• “I just go with the flow, I follow the yellow brick road. I don’t know where it’s going to lead me, but I follow it.” –  Grace Jones

Night Ride Quotes for Instagram and Night Drive Quotes

• “Driving at night is about communicating with lights.” –  Lukhman Pambra
• “All he needed was a wheel in his hand and four on the road.” –  Jack Kerouac
• “The road less traveled is the road to adventure.”
• “Still, round the corner, there may wait, A new road or a secret gate.” –  J. R. R. Tolkien

Best Road Tripping Quotes

Whether you’re heading cross country on one of the best USA road trips or are exploring Europe by car, these road tripping quotes are just the inspiration you need.

• “Never underestimate the power of driving and listening to very loud music.”
• “I love road trips. You get into this Zen rhythm; throw the sense of time out the window.” –  Miriam Toews
• “I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.” –  Douglas Adams
• “To move, to breathe, to fly, to float, To gain all while you give, To roam the roads of lands remote, To travel is to live.” –  Hans Christian Andersen

Road Trip Quotes for Instagram

• “Road trips are the equivalent of human wings. Ask me to go on one, anywhere. We’ll stop in every small town and learn the history and stories, feel the ground and capture the spirit. Then we’ll turn it into our own story that will live inside our history to carry with us, always. Because stories are more important than things.” –  Victoria Erickson
• “Two roads diverged in a wood, and I – I took the one less traveled by.” –  Robert Frost
• “The road is there, it will always be there. You just have to decide when to take it.” –  Chris Humphrey

Travel Quotes for Road Trips

• “If you’re on a road trip, you need driving music.” – Edgar Wright
• “The freedom of the open road is seductive, serendipitous and absolutely liberating.” –  Aaron Lauritsen
• “What it takes to realize everything is fine around you? A road trip to the mountains where your soul dwells in the echoes of the winds that carry fragments of clouds with them. What it takes to realize world is going back to chaos and infinite hurry? End of the aforementioned road trip.” –  Crestless Wave
• “We all have that one friend who is either on a road-trip or planning a road-trip or thinking about a road-trip or talking to people who are on road-trip or posting quotes about road-trip.” –  Crestless Wave

Captions for Road Trip

• “I’m on the road constantly. I’m a nomad. I don’t really have a home right now. I don’t identify with one place in particular.” –  Daya
• “A passenger on a road journey is in the hands of a driver; a reader embarking on a book is in the hands of a narrator.”
• “Wherever you get to is better than where you started. To stay on the road is a massive achievement.” –  Anthony Joshua
•  “Afoot and light-hearted I take to the open road.” –  Walt Whitman

Trip Quotes from the Road

• “When all’s said and done, all roads lead to the same end. So it’s not so much which road you take, as how you take it.” –  Charles de Lint
• “You can be writing every day. When you go on a road trip, the trip itself becomes part of the story.” ―  Steve Rushin
• “Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don’t complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief, and jealousy. Don’t bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live!” –  Bob Marley
• “You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.” –  William Hazlitt
• “Now, on this road trip, my mind seemed to uncrinkle, to breathe, to present to itself a cure for a disease it had not, until now, known it had.” –  Elizabeth Berg

Road Trip Sayings

• “Take care of your car in the garage, and the car will take care of you on the road.” –  Amit Kalantri
• “I climb behind the steering wheel… I drive off immediately without once looking back; it’s a long journey but it leads to freedom.”  – Corinne Hofmann
• “The pleasure we derive from journeys is perhaps dependent more on the mindset with which we travel than on the destination we travel to.” –  Alain de Botton
• “I love being on the road. I love that lifestyle, traveling city to city, rocking out and moving on to the next place.” –  Caleb Johnson

Driving Quotes for Instagram

• “And just like that, we’re on our way to everywhere.” – Emery Lord
• “Look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else.” – Tom Stoppard
• “Live your life by a compass, not a clock.” –  Stephen Covey
• “Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and enjoy the journey.” – Babs Hoffman
• “Get your motor runnin’, Head out on the highway, Lookin’ for adventure…” – Steppenwolf

Long Road Quotes for Instagram

• “Well, we’re not in the middle of nowhere, but we can see it from here.” –  Thelma & Louise
• “The road goes on forever and the party never ends.” – Robert Earl Keen
• “I’m really in the mood for a long drive with no real destination.”
• “Sometimes the best therapy is a long drive and good music.” 

Lost Road Captions

• “If you’re not lost, you’re not much of an explorer .” – John Perry Barlow
• “It feels good to be lost in the right direction.” 
• “Road trippin’ with my two favorite allies – fully loaded we got snacks and supplies. It’s time to leave this town it’s time to steal away. Let’s go get lost anywhere in the U.S.A.” – Red Hot Chilli Peppers
• “Some beautiful paths can’t be discovered without getting lost.” –  Erol Ozan
• “If you don’t know where you’re going, any road will take you there.” – George Harrison

Car Ride Quotes and Driving Captions for Instagram

• “There is nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep on rolling under the stars.” – Jack Kerouac
• “No one you have been and no place you have gone ever leaves you. The new parts of you simply jump in the car and go along for the rest of the ride. The success of your journey and your destination all depends on who’s driving.” – Bruce Springsteen
• “On the road again, Goin’ places that I’ve never been, Seein’ things that I may never see again, And I can’t wait to get on the road again” – Willie Nelson
• “There’s nowhere to go but everywhere…” – Jack Kerouac
• “In 1903 the Wright brothers invented airplanes, because in 1902 they took a road trip across the country with their family.” – Bill Engvall

Best Drive Captions and Roads Quotes

• “According to the map, we’ve only gone four inches.” – Dumb & Dumber
• “A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles.” – Tim Cahill
• “Happiness is… planning a road trip to somewhere new, with someone you love.”
• “A tourist is a fellow who drives thousands of miles so he can be photographed standing in front of his car.” – Emile Ganest
• So remember when we were driving, driving in your car. Speed so fast I felt like I was drunk. City lights lay out before us. And your arm felt nice wrapped ’round my shoulder. And I had a feeling that I belonged. I had a feeling I could be someone. (be someone, be someone)” – Tracy Chapman

Caption on Road Trip

107. “I travel not to go anywhere but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.” – Robert Louis Stevenson

108. “To awaken alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world. You are surrounded by adventure. You have no idea of what is in store for you, but you will, if you are wise and know the art of travel, let yourself go on the stream of the unknown” – Freya Stark

109. “A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.” – John Steinbeck

110. “A bend in the road, is not the end of the road….unless you fail to make the turn.” – Helen Keller

Captions for Road Trips

 111. “Once you have travelled, the voyage never ends but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey”. – Pat Conroy

112. “Never underestimate the therapeutic power of driving and listening to very loud music.”

113. “Discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes”. – Marcel Proust

114. “A passenger on a road journey is in the hands of a driver; a reader embarking on a book is in the hands of a narrator.” –  Romesh Gunesekera

Best Roadtrip Caption

115. “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.”

116. “There are no mistakes. Only new paths to explore .” – Gregory David Roberts

117. “It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there’s no knowing where you might be swept off to.” – Lord of the Rings

118. “There is something about the momentum of travel that makes you want to just keep moving, to never stop.” – Bill Bryson

119. “I have found out that there ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.” – Mark Twain

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Whether they're long or short, one thing that's true of all road trips is that they tend to be memorable for everyone who is involved. From driving long distances in all kinds of traffic and weather conditions to being surrounded by captivating sights and breathtaking views, every road trip is unique. Sum up the story of your time on the road with a telling quote, or highlight the pictures you took along the way with a compelling caption.

Short Captions for Road Trip Travel

Brevity is a plus when you're looking to caption your favorite travel photos. The short and snappy quotes below are ideal for social posts and travel scrapbooks.

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• Joyride for joy!
• Road tripper.
• Dare to drive.
• Horsepower trip.
• Potholes happen.
• Born to road trip.
• Gettin' road trippy.
• Acceleration ahead.
• We be road-trippin'.
• Wheel, wheel, wheel!
• Have fuel, will travel.
• Drive first, arrive later.
• Crank, shift, accelerate.
• Have vehicle, will travel.
• If these tires could talk...
• Lookin' for some drive action.

Quotes to Express Your Love of Road Trips

Do you love, love, love road trips? Share the love and express your affection for car trips with the quotes below.

• For the love of cars.
• Miles make me smile.
• I heart the open road.
• The joy is in the journey.
• The road is my happy place.
• I never get tired of tire travel.
• In motion is where I want to be.
• I am the road and the road is me.
• Joyriding makes my heart happy.
• I want to be a roadie when I grow up.
• My happy place is behind the wheel.
• All pumped up and everywhere to go.
• Every day is a great day for a road trip.
• Being on the road makes me wheelie happy.
• Highway terrain beats the heck out of planes.
• Might as well face it, I'm addicted to road trips.
• Summer sunshine and the open road make my heart soar.

Unplanned Road Trip Quotes

Sometimes the best road trips are the ones that are totally spontaneous. The quotes below are perfect for those days when you get into the car with no particular destination in mind, yet somehow you find the perfect place.

• The road moves me.
• Drive and ye shall find.
• The car made me do it.
• Maps are just suggestions.
• Let impulse lead the way.
• Where shall we drive today?
• The car has a mind of its own.
• As far as the fuel will take me...
• Wherever the tires want to take me.
• Where we will stop, nobody knows...
• All fueled up and everywhere to go.
• It's my car and I'll wander if I want to.
• Let's drive until we hit the gas ceiling.
• Spontaneity is my favorite travel companion.
• The truck stops where the truck wants to stop.
• Made a last-minute decision to spend some quality time with my car.

Captions for Scenic Route Road Trips

The best trips aren't the ones that follow the fastest route from point A to point B. Exit the interstate and take the scenic route for the adventure of a lifetime.

• Takin' in all the sights.
• Destination: scenic road.
• Explore the alternate route.
• Now that's my kind of scene.
• Backroads are the best roads.
• Life in the slow lane is lovely.
• Hit me with your best scenery.
• Let's shift this show off-road.
• When in doubt, take the scenic route.
• Life is too short to skip the scenic route.
• The best views are scene and not heard.
• Forget the highway; head for the scenic byway!
• On the highway of life, always take the scenic route.
• Make the scenic route your destination, not a detour.
• The road less traveled will reward you with breathtaking beauty.
• Longer travel time is but a small price to pay to travel the scenic route.

Family Road Trip Quotes and Captions

Family road trips provide a unique opportunity for family members to bond through shared experiences and adventures. From road trip games to singing out loud, there are plenty of moments to remember.

• Cruising with the fam van clan.
• Having a traffic time with the fam.
• Don't spite the hand that drives you.
• Don't make me take off this seatbelt.
• Goin' for a ride with the fam by my side.
• Road tripping with the people I love most.
• Don't make me snatch that wheel out of your hands.
• The family that drives cross country together is brave.
• Apparently, no one in this family has a sense of direction.
• Whoever invented in-car entertainment systems is a genius.
• No back seat driving until you are old enough for a driver's license.
• That went by fast, said no parent ever at the end of a family road trip.
• Take a cross-country road trip with your kids while they still like you.
• The best thing about driving kids to summer camp is dropping them off.
• It's all fun and games until somebody straps a luggage carrier to the roof.
• Even if you like to pretend they never happened, you'll never forget road trips with your family.

Road Trips With Friends Captions and Quotes

Traveling with family is fun, but the feeling of hitting the road with your friends provides an amazing sense of freedom.

• Clutch crew.
• Pickup posse.
• Diesel be fun!
• Wheel be seeing you.
• Road trip travel clique.
• Have friends, will travel.
• Coastin' with my compadres.
• Bestie bonding on the open road.
• Gentle friends, start your engines.
• Love to ride with my besties by my side.
• Doin' summer our way - on the highway!
• What happens on the road stays on the road.
• Hitting the road with my ride-or-die besties.
• This feels more like a pilgrimage than a road trip.
• Before we hit the road, who brought the bail money?
• The only thing better than a road trip is a road trip with friends.

Couple Road Trip Captions and Quotes

Traveling as a duo is a rite of passage for every couple. If everything goes well during the first few outings, there's a good chance that the two of you may be together for the long haul.

• Bae escape.
• Our lips are wheeled.
• Drivin with my darlin'.
• Twosome in 'da town.
• Cruising with my boo.
• Head over wheels in love.
• We road tripped and fell in love.
• We tooled around and fell in love.
• Honeymooners on the highway.
• We're spending our kids' college fund on fuel!
• Heading out on the highway with my one and only.
• Road trips are more about the companion than the destination.
• Wandering with you is better than being found with anyone else.
• There's nothing better than going for a ride with my true love by my side.
• If they don't yell at me for driving too fast, that's how I'll know that our love will last.

Solo Road Trips

Traveling with other people can be fun, but it also has its downside. Sometimes, a solo trip is exactly what you need.

• Solitary steerer.
• Solo locomotion.
• Chauffeuring myself.
• Just me and my car.
• My way is the highway!
• Highway, take me away.
• Road trips are for lovers.
• Making the road my own.
• Bonding with my automobile.
• Nothin' but me and the open road...
• Enjoyin' some me time on the road.
• Just me, an audiobook, and the road ahead.
• This summer, I'm tackling the highway my way.
• Headin' for the highway with just me, myself, and I.
• If you can't travel with the ones you love, travel alone.

Funny Road Trip Captions

Some road trips call for a strong sense of humor. Whether funny things happen along the way, or you need to break up a bit of road trip tension with a humorous perspective, the silly puns and sayings below make perfect captions.

• Pump my ride.
• Don't be such a dipstick.
• Slow, slow, slow your roll.
• But officer, that's speed entrapment.
• I thought "E" meant we had extra gas.
• Don't put the car before the horsepower.
• Not all who wander are lost, but we sure are.
• Every road trip involves at least a few speed bumps.
• A road trip is just a car ride that feels like it takes forever.
• It's better to have a sense of adventure than a sense of direction.
• Being unforgettable is not necessarily a good thing for a road trip.
• What do you call a road trip with the whole family? An all-you-can seater.
• Why did you take a road trip with people you don't like? I used to like them, but that was before the road trip.

Explore the World One Road at a Time

No matter how often you travel or how many road trips you take, each outing will be a unique adventure. Sum up the most special parts with the long list of spectacular sayings above. Explore some additional fun travel quotes for even more options.

150+ Inspiring Road Trip Captions & Quotes on Long Drive (Sharable Images)

September 11, 2023

Paula Martinelli

If you are looking for the best memorable road trip captions for Instagram or perhaps, some quotes on a long drive, then you are in the right place! I love traveling, but I have to say that road trips are my favorite way to explore and Pin the Planet! Put my favorite trip song , roll my windows down, and hit the road!

When I am exploring a new place on a road trip, each corner unveils a surprise, and this is a liberating feeling. So, here are the top 150+ road trip captions to inspire you to continue exploring

From the amazing road trips in the USA to driving the Ring Road in Iceland , or maybe to the exhilarating road trip in Namibia , our planet is filled with stunning landscapes. I am exploring a new place on a road trip, each corner unveils a surprise, and this is a liberating feeling.

In this article, I gathered 150+ inspiring road trip captions for your next post on your social media, so you could find the best fit for your picture in only one place. If you are looking for short road trip captions, quotes on the long drive, funny road trip captions, or maybe inspirational road trip puns, I have got your back! There are plenty of catchy and inspirational road trip quotes that are bound to capture your audience’s attention.

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Short Road Trip Captions for Instagram

1. “Still, round the corner, there may wait, a new road or a secret gate.” – J. R. R. Tolkien

2. “Adventure is out there.” – Up

3. “The world is too big to stay in one place, and life is too short to do just one thing.”

4. “Road trips aren’t measured by mile markers, but by moments.”

5. “Roads are a record of those who have gone before.” Rebecca Solnit

6. “Clear your mind, roll your windows down and smell the adventure outside.” – Paula Pins the Planet

7. “Sometimes the best therapy is a long drive and good music.”

8. “And just like that, we’re on our way to everywhere.” – Emery Lord, Open Road Summer

9. “I’m really in the mood for a long drive with no real destination.”

10. “All he needed was a wheel in his hand and four on the road.” – Jack Kerouac

11. “A bend in the road, is not the end of the road….unless you fail to make the turn.” – Helen Keller

12. “Take care of your car in the garage, and the car will take care of you on the road.” – Amit Kalantri

13. “It feels good to be lost in the right direction.”

14. “Sometimes you find yourself in the middle of nowhere, and sometimes in the middle of nowhere, you find yourself.”

15. “The only impossible journey is the one you never begin” – Tony Robbins

16. “Live your life by a compass, not a clock.” – Stephen Covey

17. “Roads were made for journeys, not destinations.” – Confucius

18. “Life is too short to not go on that spontaneous road trip.”

19. “The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.” – Wallace Stevens

20. “There are no mistakes. Only new paths to explore.” – Gregory David Roberts

21. “We had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.” Jack Kerouac, On the Road: the Original Scroll

22. “You may not find a path, but you will find a way.” – Tom Wolfe

23. “Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by.” – Robert Frost

24. “The road must eventually lead to the whole world.” – Jack Kerouac

25. “I’ve found my happy place.”

26. “Happiness is a road trip.”

27. “People don’t take trips, trips take people.” – John Steinbeck

28. “Making memories, one road trip at a time.”

29. “Well, we’re not in the middle of nowhere, but we can see it from here.” Thelma & Louise

30. “I’m not lost, I’m exploring.”

31. “It’s not the destination, it’s the journey.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

32. “I guess the lesson is you can’t go everywhere. You should still go everywhere you can.” – Charles Finch

33. “Look at life through the windshield, not the rearview mirror.” – Byrd Baggett

34. “It’s a road trip! It’s about adventure!. . It’s not like we have somewhere to go.” – John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

Best Quotes on Long Drive

35. “My best nights of sleep are not in a king-sized bed, they’re in the back of an overpacked station wagon parked under the stars.” – We Dream of Travel

37. “I climb behind the steering wheel… I drive off immediately without once looking back; it’s a long journey but it leads to freedom.” Corinne Hofmann, The White Masai

38. “Hodophile (noun): a lover of roads; one who loves travel.”

39. “There is nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep on rolling under the stars.” – Jack Kerouac, On the Road: the Original Scroll

40. “An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.” – Gilbert K. Chesterton

41. “Afoot and light-hearted I take to the open road, Healthy, free, the world before me, The long brown path before me leading wherever I choose.” – Walt Whitman

42. “I just go with the flow, I follow the yellow brick road. I don’t know where it’s going to lead me, but I follow it.” Grace Jones

43. “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.” – Helen Keller

44. “We’re almost there, but nowhere near it. All that matters is that we’re going.” – Gilmore Girls

45. “I love road trips. You get into this Zen rhythm; throw the sense of time out the window.” – Miriam Toews

46. “When all’s said and done, all roads lead to the same end. So it’s not so much which road you take, as how you take it.” Charles de Lint

47. “Because the greatest part of a road trip isn’t arriving at your destination. It’s all the wild stuff that happens along the way.” – Emma Chase, Tamed

48. “The pleasure we derive from journeys is perhaps dependent more on the mindset with which we travel than on the destination we travel to.” – Alain de Botton

Memorable Road Trip Quotes

50. “It’s not a successful road trip until you’ve forgotten what day of the week it is.” – We Dream of Travel

51. “Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

52. “Adventure, without it, why live?” Hortense Odlum

53. “To move, to breathe, to fly, to float, To gain all while you give, To roam the roads of lands remote, To travel is to live.” – Hans Christian Andersen, The Fairy Tale of My Life: An Autobiography

54. “Nothing adventured, nothing attained.” – Peter McWilliams

55. “All my favorite summers included road trips.” – We Dream of Travel

56. “The road less traveled is the road to adventure.”

57. “Fifty years from now, when you’re looking back at your life, don’t you want to be able to say you had the guts to get in the car?“ – Transformers

58. “Road trips are the equivalent of human wings. Ask me to go on one, anywhere. We’ll stop in every small town and learn the history and stories, feel the ground, and capture the spirit. Then we’ll turn it into our own story that will live inside our history to carry with us, always. Because stories are more important than things.” –  Victoria Erickson

59. “I travel not to go anywhere but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.” – Robert Louis Stevenson, Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes

60. “Attitude is the difference between an ordeal and an adventure.” – Bob Bitchin

61. “If you don’t know where you’re going, any road will take you there.” – George Harrison

62. “Jobs fill your pockets, but adventures fill your soul.” – Jaime Lyn

63. “It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there’s no knowing where you might be swept off to.” – J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

64. “Real adventure is defined best as a journey from which you may not come back alive, and certainly not as the same person.” – Yvon Chouinard

65. “A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.” John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America

66. “What you’ve done becomes the judge of what you’re going to do – especially in other people’s minds. When you’re traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don’t have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.” – William Least Heat Moon

67. “The freedom of the open road is seductive, serendipitous and absolutely liberating.” – Aaron Lauritsen, 100 Days Drive: The Great North American Road Trip

68. “We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm, and adventure. There is no end to the adventures we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.” Jawaharlal Nehru

69. “The journey is part of the experience – an expression of the seriousness of one’s intent. One doesn’t take the A train to Mecca.” – Anthony Bourdain, A Cook’s Tour: Global Adventures in Extreme Cuisines

70. “It’s a scientific fact that gas station hot dogs taste best on road trips.” – We Dream of Travel

71. “A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.” – Lao Tzu

Funny Road Trip Captions for Instagram

72. “The American tendency in travel; one goes not so much to see, but to tell of it afterward.” – John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America

73. “If you’re not lost, you’re not much of an explorer.” – John Perry Barlow

74. “We all have that one friend who is either on a road trip or planning a road trip or thinking about a road trip or talking to people who are on a road trip or posting quotes about a road trip.” – Crestless Wave

75. “If you come to a fork in the road, take it.” – Yogi Berra

76. “At the end of the day, your feet should be dirty, your hair messy and your eyes sparkling.” – Shanti

77. “The entire road trip could be summed up as one giant attempt to keep from crashing the car during fits of rage and fits of hysteria.” – Kari Martindale

78. “A tourist is a fellow who drives thousands of miles so he can be photographed standing in front of his car.” Emile Ganest

79. “In 1903 the Wright brothers invented airplanes because in 1902 they took a road trip across the country with their family.” – Bill Engvall

80. “Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason.” – Jerry Seinfeld

81. “Road trips require a couple of things: a well-balanced diet of caffeine, salt and sugar and an excellent selection of tunes – oh, and directions.” – Jenn McKinlay.

82. “According to the map, we’ve only gone four inches.” – Dumb & Dumber

83. “It doesn’t matter how old you get, buying snacks for a road trip should always look like an unsupervised 9-year-old was given $100.” – Unknown

84. “Kilometers are shorter than miles. Save gas, take your next trip in kilometers.” – George Carlin

85. “Always take the scenic route.”

Road Trip Quotes With Love

86. “Even when I visit the most beautiful countries in the world, it’s the people I come home telling stories of.” – We Dream of Travel

87. “Some roads aren’t meant to be travelled alone.” Chinese Proverb

88. “I want to go on a road trip. Just you and me. The highway, the radio, the blue sky, the back roads, and windows down. We’ll talk about everything and nothing. We’ll sing our hearts out, and we’ll make memories we’ll never forget. Just you and me.”

89. “We are all travelers in the wilderness of the world & the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.” – Robert Louis Stevenson

90. “I traveled the whole world to discover the greatest adventure was you.” – We Dream of Travel

91. “I have found out that there ain’t the no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.” – Mark Twain

92. “A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles.” – Tim Cahill

93. “Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.” – Ernest Hemingway

94. “I can speak to my soul only when the two of us are off exploring deserts or cities or mountains or roads.” – Paulo Coelho, Aleph

95. “Sometimes all you need is a great friend and a tank of gas.” Thelma and Louise

96. “I get a friend to travel with me… I need somebody to bring me back to who I am. It’s hard to be alone.” – Leonardo DiCaprio

97. “There’s nowhere to go but everywhere…” – Jack Kerouac, On the Road: the Original Scroll

98. “One of the great things about travel is that you find out how many good, kind people there are.” – Edith Wharton

99. “The best gift you could have given her was a lifetime of adventures.”

100. “What we find in a soul mate is not something wild to tame, but something wild to run with.” – Robert Brault

101. “Road trips are not about anywhere you’ll go, they’re about going anywhere.” – We Dream of Travel

102. “It doesn’t matter where you’re going, it’s who you have beside you.”

Road Trip With Friends Quotes

103. “Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.” – Zaak Walton

104. “A good friend listens to your adventures. Your best friend makes them with you.” Unknown

105. “There is a whole world out there. Pack your backpack, your best friend, and go.”

106. “Life is meant for good friends and great adventures.”

107. “Sharing adventures means enjoying them 100% more.”

108. “You can pack for every occasion, but a good friend will always be the best thing you could bring!”

109. “Just grab a friend and take a ride, together upon the open road.” – The Goofy Movie

110. “Sometimes all you need is a great friend and thirst for adventure.”

111. “There is an unspoken bond you create with the friends you travel with.” – Kristen Sarah

112. “A journey is best measured in friends rather than miles.” Tim Cahill

113. “Friends that travel together, stay together.”

114. “True friends never apart maybe in distance never in heart.” – Helen Keller

115. “Friends that travel together, stay together.”

Road Trip With Family Quotes

116. “Kids don’t remember their best day of television.”

117. “A road trip is a way for the whole family to spend time together and annoy each other in interesting and new places.” Tom Lichtenheld

118. “Having kids is a reason to travel, never a reason to stop.”

119. “When you travel with your children you are giving them something that can never be taken away … experience, exposure, and a way of life.” – Pamela T. Chandler

120. “A family that travels together stays together.”

121. “Travel sparks our imagination, feeds our curiosity, and reminds us how much we all have in common.” – Deborah Lloyd

122. “You’ll learn more about a person in 30 days on the road than you will in 30 months at home.” – We Dream of Travel

Inspirational Road Trip Puns

123. “We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we’re curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.” – Walt Disney

124. “Every journey is simultaneously a beginning and an ending: I was leaving my old life behind and starting on a road trip to find a new me.” – Debi Tolbert Duggar, Riding Soul-O

125. “There is something about the momentum of travel that makes you want to just keep moving, to never stop.” – Bill Bryson

126. “I am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.” – Mary Anne Radmacher

127. “I may not have ended up where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.” Douglas Adams

128. “Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey.” – Pat Conroy

129. “All he needed was a wheel in his hand and four on the road.” – Jack Kerouac, On the Road: the Original Scroll

130. “It’s your road and yours alone. Others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you.” – Rumi

131. “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” – Marcel Proust

132. “I see my path, but I don’t know where it leads. Not knowing where I’m going is what inspires me to travel it.” Rosalía de Castro

133. “The open road is there, it will always be there. You just have to decide when to take it.” – Chris Humphrey

134. “If we wait until we are ready, we will be waiting for the rest of our life!” – Lemony Snicket

135. “Travel teaches you a little about the world and a lot about yourself. Getting lost is the best way to find ourselves.” – We Dream of Travel

136. “We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.” – Hilaire Belloc

137. “If you make the mistake of looking back too much, you aren’t focused enough on the road in front of you.” – Brad Paisley

138. “You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.” – William Hazlitt

139. “Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling.” – Margaret Lee Runbeck

140. “The road goes on forever and the party never ends.” – Robert Earl Keen

141. “Look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else.” Tom Stoppard

142. “Live life with no excuses, travel with no regret.” – Oscar Wilde

143. “Sometimes the most scenic roads in life are the detours you didn’t mean to take.” – Angela N. Blount, Once Upon an Ever After

144. “Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go.” – T.S. Eliot

Road Trips Quotes from Song Lyrics

145. “Get your motor runnin’, Head out on the highway, Lookin’ for adventure…” – Steppenwolf, Born to be Wild

146. “I love being on the road. I love that lifestyle, traveling city to city, rocking out and moving on to the next place.” Caleb Johnson

147. “Listen can you hear the distance calling? Far away but will be with you soon” – Kylie Minogue, Light Years

148. “I don’t know where I’m going from here but I promise it won’t be boring.” – David Bowie

149. “On the road again, Goin’ places that I’ve never been, Seein’ things that I may never see again, And I can’t wait to get on the road again” – Willie Nelson, On The Road Again

150. “Gonna travel, gonna travel wild and free. I’m gonna pack my bags because this great big world is calling me” – Elvis Presley, Harem Holiday

151. “ So remember when we were driving, driving in your car? Speed so fast I felt like I was drunk. City lights lay out before us. And your arm felt nice wrapped ’round my shoulder. And I had a feeling that I belonged. I had a feeling I could be someone. (be someone, be someone)” – Tracy Chapman, Fast Car

152. “All you hear is time stand still in travel. And feel such peace and absolute” – R.E.M., You are the everything

153. “You make me wanna roll my windows down and cruise.” Florida Georgia Line, Cruise

154. “ No one you have been and no place you have gone ever leaves you. The new parts of you simply jump in the car and go along for the rest of the ride. The success of your journey and your destination all depends on who’s driving.” – Bruce Springsteen, Born to Run

155. “Spend my nights and days before. Searching the world for what’s right here” – The XX, Islands

156. “Road trippin’ with my two favorite allies – fully loaded we got snacks and supplies. It’s time to leave this town it’s time to steal away. Let’s go get lost anywhere in the U.S.A.” – Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Road Trippin’

157. “Map out your future – but do it in pencil. The road ahead is as long as you make it.  Make it worth the trip.” – Jon Bon Jovi

158. “Time has come to go pack your bags, and hit the open road, our hearts just won’t die. It’s the trip, that keeps us alive” – Still Corners – The Trip

159. “The sweetest dove in a dream. So many miles Away.” – Still Corners – The Trip

Road Trip Captions Conclusion

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50 Inspirational Road Trip Quotes to Fuel Your Wanderlust

by Sabine | Mar 16, 2020 | Travel Inspiration | 2 comments

Are you looking for some travel inspiration to fuel your wanderlust? We have compiled a list with our favourite road trip quotes that will definitely inspire you to hit the road.

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We love going on a road trip, just to get in our car and start driving. We will see where the road will take us. We regularly take epic road trips, in Europe, Africa and even North America. The open road, seemingly going nowhere but will take us to the nicest and sometimes undiscovered places. The below list of quotes about road trips has inspired us over the years to go out again. They are in no particular order.

We hope that these quotes about the road will provide you with some great travel inspiration. And feel free to pin these photos with inspiring road trip captions to your pinterest boards for further inspiration.

Road trip quotes: 50 Inspirational quotes about the road

If you don’t know where you are going, any road will get you there. – Lewis Carroll

Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter. – Izaak Walton

The open road is there, it will away be there. You just have to decide when to take it. – Chris Humphrey

Let’s go on a road trip and like it, not dread it! There are no barriers, there is no fear. – Dr. Wayne Dyer

I many not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be. – Douglas Adams

Map out your future, but do it in pencil. The road ahead is as long as you make it. Make it worth the whole trip. – Jon Bon Jovi

Sometimes the most scenic roads in life are the detours you didn’t mean to take. – Angela N. Blount

This is so true for any roadtrip. We love to start driving in just a general direction but are open to any detours. And we have discovered some beautiful gems on those detours. That’s why one of our favourite quotes on road trips is “Put down the map and get wonderfully lost” and this is of course what we often do while road tripping. And it also counts for the next quote just below.

Some beautiful paths can’t be discovered without getting lost. – Erol Ozan

Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason. – Jerry Seinfeld

I take to the open road, healthy, free, the world before me. – Walt Whitman

If you’re on a road trip, you need driving music. – Edgar Wright

This is one of the road trip captions which hits the nail right on the head. Good driving music makes a road trip so much more special. For instance, we love good country music while driving through the Great Karoo in South Africa or on the vast open roads of Namibia . We even have a special song on driving on a specific road in Namibia, which is “Hotel California” from the Eagles and this is for us one of the top things to do in Namibia . This shows that some quotes about the road are so true. So start making your road trip playlist, start driving and spend time together.

Because the greatest part of a road trip isn’t arriving at your destination. It’s all the wild stuff that happens along the way. – Emma Chase

The freedom of the open road is seductive, serendipitous and absolutely liberating. – Aaron Lauritsen

And just like that, we’re on our way to everywhere. – Emery Lord

Do not follow where the path may lead. go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list. – Susan Sontag

If you go on a road trip, the trip itself becomes part of the story. – Steve Rushin

Roads were made for journeys, not destinations. – Confucius

The whole point of a road trip is to enjoy the road. Can you imagine all the beautiful things you will miss when you only think about the destination and not everything that is happening while getting there. It’s one of the best road trip quotes that shows what road tripping is all about.

Look at life through the windshield, not the rearview mirror. – Byrd Baggett

Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and enjoy the journey. – Babs Hoffman

Life is beautiful if you are on the path to somewhere. – Orhan Pamuk

The two impulses in travel are to get away from home, and the other is to pursue something – a landscape, people, an exotic place. Certainly finding a place that you like or discovering something unusual is a very sustaining thing in travel. – Paul Theroux

I’m not lost. I’m exploring. – Jana Stanfield

This is on of those funny road trip quotes that is worth mentioning. Too many people think you are lost when you stop at a random place far away from the tourist path. It’s at that point that a true road trip starts, when you start exploring, in my humble opinion.

I can speak to my soul only when the two of us are off exploring deserts or cities or mountains or roads. – Paulo Coelho

Wherever you go becomes part of you somehow. – Anita Desai

Oh, the places you’ll go. – Dr. Seuss

Life begins at the end of your comfort zone. – Neale Donald Walsch

At the end of the day, I understand that life has roadblocks, and life is like school, you’ll be tested; we gotta pass it. – DJ Khaled

Wherever you get to is better than where you started. To stay on the road is a massive achievement. – Anthony Joshua

There is a strange comfort in knowing that no matter what happens today, the sun will rise again tomorrow. – Aaron Lauritsen

Well, we’re not in the middle of nowhere, but we can see it from here. Thelma and Louise

There are a few road trip movie quotes that are worth mentioning and this one from the movie Thelma and Louise is one of them. Sean and I have often felt like being in the middle of nowhere while on road trip, especially when driving through some parts of Southern Africa and especially when driving in the southern part of Namibia .

Still around the corner, they may wait. A new road or a secret gate. And though we pass them by today, tomorrow we may come this way and take the hidden paths that run towards the Moon or to the Sun. – J.R.R. Tolkien

You make me wanna roll my windows down and cruise. – Florida Georgia Line

I love road trips. You get into this Zen rhythm, throw the sense of time out the window. – Miriam Toews

Blessed are the curious, for they shall have adventures. – Lovelle Drachman

Fifty years from now, when you’re looking back at your life, don’t you want to be able to say you had the guts to get in the car? – Sam Witwicky

If you think adventures are dangerous, try routine; it’s lethal. – Paulo Coelho

I love to travel, but hate to arrive. – Albert Einstein

You may not find a path, but you will find a way. – Tom Wolfe

If you make the mistake of looking back too much, you aren’t focused enough on the road in front of you. – Brad Paisley

Look on every exit being an entrance somewhere else. – Tom Stoppard

The pleasure we derive from journeys is perhaps dependent more on the mindset with which we travel than on the destination we travel to. – Alain de Botton

It’s a road trip! It’s about adventure! … It’s not like we have somewhere to go. – John Green

Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road.” – Jack Kerouac

Climb the mountain so you can see the world, not so the world can see you. – David Mccullough

Jobs will fill your pockets but adventures fill your soul. – Jamie Lyn Beatty

Wherever you go, you take yourself with you. – Neil Gaiman

There is something about the momentum of travel that makes you want to keep moving, to never stop. – Bill Bryson

I climb behind the steering wheel, I drive off immediately without once looking back; it’s a long journey but it leads to freedom. – Corinne Hofmann

Driving at night is about communicating with lights. – Lukman Pambra

This was our list of your favourite and for us, best road trip quotes. What is your favourite quote on the list? Or did your favourite quote about the road not make the list? Let us know in the comments.

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62 Best Quotes on Long Drives and Road Trips (With Pics!)

I have a couple of confessions to make: I love long drives and road trips. And I love quotes on long drives and road trips.

There’s just something about car ride quotes and those inspirational, sometimes thought-provoking, sometimes funny road trip quotes that encapsulate what we go through and what we feel on the road.

Long drive quotes, on the road quotes, road trip quotes, long road quotes, travel quotes – they all provide motivation and comfort for travelers who can’t wait to be on the road again.

If you’re already planning out your long drives and road trips, good for you! But if you’re still undecided about taking that trip, these driving quotes and road trip quotes might just do the trick. These long drive quotes will get you packing your bags and hopping on to an exciting adventure. Plus, they’re perfect as Instagram captions!

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1. Quotes on long drives, cars, and driving

Taking a long drive is one of the simplest and most therapeutic ways of traveling. It’s liberating. Apart from honing your driving skills, it also relaxes you and helps clear your mind. After all, as long as there’s no traffic, it’s just you and the open road.

And let’s face it, driving your own car is just so much more convenient than being at the mercy of the flight, train, or bus schedules.

I listed down some of the best quotes on long drives, cars, and driving (including funny ones). These car ride quotes are the perfect companions on your road trips.

A long drive to nowhere is the best way to clear the mind. Meggan Roxanne

Sometimes the best therapy is a long drive and good music. Unknown

Refuel your soul, love. This is a long drive. JH Hard

Quotes on long drives seem to agree on one thing – long drives and road trips are good for you. There’s just something about being on the open road that’s so freeing.

JH Hard’s quote drives the point home (pun intended). Long drives and road trips can recharge your soul. At the same time, this long drive quote tells us to prepare for the long road ahead.

Our cars are not the only ones that need fuel; our souls do, too. 😉

The one thing that unites all human beings, regardless of age, gender, religion, economic status, or ethnic background, is that, deep down inside, we all believe that we are above-average drivers. Dave Barry

Never underestimate the therapeutic power of driving and listening to very loud music. Unknown

Always focus on the front windshield and not the rear view mirror. Colin Powell

The number one rule in driving is to keep your eyes on the road. But this driving quote by Colin Powell goes beyond driving rules.

It’s a great reminder that in the road known as life, what matters is what’s in front of you. You get the most out of life and your travels when you enjoy the present and look forward to what’s ahead, not dwelling on the past.

The forks in the road are nothing but minor inconveniences or setbacks that shouldn’t hold you down – just drive on!

“Learn to drive?” “Never,” said Quentin. “My mission in life is to be a passenger.” Diana Wynne Jones

They drove, the city slowly dissolving around them and breaking up into fields and trees. Brian Evenson

I don’t know about you but what I love most about long drives and road trips is the change in scenery. This long drive quote brings to mind images of highways that lead to wide open fields or coastal villages or the quaint countryside.

Taking long drives and trips along scenic roads have given me the chance to get off the beaten path and see the real world for myself. From one town to another, there’s always something new to see.

Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia. Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated. Jean Baudrillard

Take care of your car in the garage, and the car will take care of you on the road. Amit Kalantri

I climb behind the steering wheel… I drive off immediately without once looking back; it’s a long journey but it leads to freedom. Corinne Hofmann

Driving at night is about communicating with lights. Lukhman Pambra

I get emotionally attached to the cars ahead of me on long road trips. Unknown

If you’re on a road trip, you need driving music.  Edgar Wright

Great road trip quote and sensible advice, if you ask me. Music and open roads – they’re the perfect combination. Whether I’m taking a plane or commuting to work, music keeps me company.

But with road trips, music is not a mere suggestion – it’s a necessity. There’s a reason why there are so many driving and road trip playlists on our music apps.

Driving down long roads with your windows down, music blasting off the speaker, and you and your travel buddy singing your hearts out… That is a picture of an epic road trip.

2. Quotes about road trips

Whether it’s a long weekend trip or a cross-country drive, a road trip is always a good idea. It helps you destress and discover new things that you won’t encounter back home.

Road trips allow you to be in charge of our schedules and our itinerary. You can even change your mind midway. It’s easy to drive away if you don’t feel the vibe of the place, and it’s just as easy to stay if you’re enjoying it. Plus, you can bring anything that fits into your trunk!

Here are just a few of my favorite road trip quotes. Go on, read below, and be inspired to hit the road, stat!

They can solve a surprising number of problems, road trips. John Green

Road trips aren’t measured by mile markers, but by moments. Unknown

This road trip quote just hits the spot. The ironic thing about going on long road trips is that our maps (or the GPS) serve only as guides while we drive. But the location pins don’t define or measure the quality of the trip.

Often, the moments that stick with us are what make or break the trip.

When we return home and tell our family and friends about the trip, we won’t gush about how many miles we’ve traveled but about the things that fascinated us, the discoveries we made, the people we met, and how the trip made us feel.

All of a sudden we were out of the lot and on the highway next to the mountains, flying. I put my hand out the window, and then I put my head out. I felt my hair blow behind me and the air rush into me, and I forgot for a moment to worry about how I was supposed to be. Because I was perfect right then. Everything was. And Sky was a perfect driver. Not scary. Just steady. And fast. I wanted the music to last forever. Ava Dellaira

I probably did too much thinking in India. I blame it on the roads, for they were superb… Robert Edison Fulton Jr.

Road trips required a couple of things: a well-balanced diet of caffeine, salt and sugar and an excellent selection of tunes — oh, and directions. Jenn McKinlay

That’s why I love road trips, dude. It’s like doing something without actually doing anything. John Green

I love this road trip quote from John Green’s An Abundance of Katherines because it’s so accurate! Road trips are probably the most laidback type of travel.

The relatively fast change in scenery allows you to see more in a short span of time without actually doing much. It doesn’t require as much preparation as plane rides and it’s more comfortable than public commute.

You can literally pack your bags and hop on and see the world from the road.

Now, on this road trip, my mind seemed to uncrinkle, to breathe, to present to itself a cure for a disease it had not, until now, known it had. Elizabeth Berg

I love road trips. You get into this Zen rhythm; throw the sense of time out the window. Miriam Toews

Road trips are the equivalent of human wings. Ask me to go on one, anywhere. We’ll stop in every small town and learn the history and stories, feel the ground, and capture the spirit. Then we’ll turn it into our own story that will live inside our history to carry with us, always. Because stories are more important than things. Victoria Erickson

As a writer and a history junkie, this quote on road trips really speaks to me. I believe every place has its own special story waiting to be heard. These stories make a place unique; they’re an integral part of its identity and culture.

They say you leave a piece of your heart when you travel, and that piece becomes part of the place’s story.

Likewise, the stories of the places you’ve been to live inside you and become a part of your own story. This is how traveling changes us and leaves us wanting more.

It’s a road trip! It’s about adventure! . . . It’s not like we have somewhere to go.  John Green

I can speak to my soul only when the two of us are off exploring deserts or cities or mountains or roads. Paulo Coelho

You can be writing every day. When you go on a road trip, the trip itself becomes part of the story. Steve Rushin

3. Quotes on long and open roads

Long, open roads conjure up images of these seemingly endless, bare expanse of concrete with vast fields, towering mountains, or the wide ocean on the sides.

Isn’t it strange that this emptiness can also make us feel alive?

There’s just nothing like a long drive along an open road to clear the mind and give us the freedom we’ve been seeking.

Read these long road quotes and be inspired to live a life of adventure and travel.

The Road goes ever on and on Down from the door where it began. Now far ahead the Road has gone, And I must follow, if I can, Pursuing it with eager feet, Until it joins some larger way Where many paths and errands meet. And whither then? I cannot say J.R.R. Tolkien

Life is a long, bumpy road, but that makes for an exciting ride. Choose a direction and if the road turns — turn! If there is a fork in the road – take it! It’s ok to map out your future — but do it in pencil. Jon Bon Jovi

Rock star Jon Bon Jovi wasn’t just making music, he was also out sharing words of wisdom. This long road quote was lifted from his commencement speech at Rutgers University—Camden in 2015 where he talked about life being an open road and how we shouldn’t be embarrassed by not having our lives planned out.

It is a piece of life advice that can also be applied to road trips. The beauty of road trips lies in the spontaneity and freedom it offers. So it’s great if you have an itinerary, a schedule you want to follow. But write it in pencil – be flexible to change of plans and be open to surprises that might just make your trip even more exciting.

I take to the open road, healthy, free, the world before me. Walt Whitman

Roads were made for journeys, not destinations. Confucius

Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road. Jack Kerouac

Difficult roads often lead to beautiful destinations. Unknown

The excitement before arriving at a destination – that’s one of the things I love and miss about traveling. This road trip quote talks about long drives and road trips as forms of temporary escape.

You just can’t help but look forward to the lands you’ll explore, the adventures you’ll embark on, and the people you’ll meet. This element of surprise is what makes road trips, especially spontaneous ones, special.

The open road is there; it will always be there. You just have to decide when to take it. Chris Humphrey

The road goes on forever and the party never ends. Robert Earl Keen

I love being on the road. I love that lifestyle, traveling city to city, rocking out, and moving on to the next place. Caleb Johnson

The road must eventually lead to the whole world.  Jack Kerouac

The freedom of the open road is seductive, serendipitous and absolutely liberating. Aaron Lauritsen

4. Quotes about journeying into the unknown

Like life itself, road trips are often full of uncertainties. We might witness something beautiful and exciting, but we can also be bogged down by traffic. The view may not always be ideal and your car may break down.

The pros outweigh the cons though. The adventures (and misadventures) are what make life and road trips thrilling after all.

These inspirational quotes about traveling on the open road and journeying into the unknown are both motivational and insightful. Making for great captions, these quotes about roads and long trips remind us that life is a great adventure.

Still, ‘round the corner, there may wait, a new road or a secret gate. J. R. R. Tolkien

Life is not always perfect. Like a road, it has many bends, ups and down, but that’s its beauty. Amit Ray

There’s more to getting to where you’re going then just knowing there’s a road. Joan Lowery Nixon

They say life is a highway and we all travel our own roads, some good, some bad, yet each is a blessing of its own. Jess “Chief” Brynjulson

This long road quote speaks of our individual journeys. We’re all on a journey. Each journey is unique. There will be highs and lows but we all go forward. Isn’t that both hopeful and humbling?

The road that leads to nowhere for others might just be the road that leads to somewhere for you! Mehmet Murat ildan

Though the road’s been rocky it sure feels good to me. Bob Marley

Sometimes it’s worth lingering on the journey for a while before getting to the destination. Richelle Mead

Half the thrill of long drives and road trips happens just before we arrive at our destination. This road trip quote reminds me of times when I travel with my friends.

When I go on road trips with them, the anecdotes that stay with me are usually the ones that happened inside the car. Our silly conversations, the songs we sang to, the meals we grabbed at rest stops.

Wherever you get to is better than where you started. To stay on the road is a massive achievement. Anthony Joshua

Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don’t complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief, and jealousy. Don’t bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake up and live! Bob Marley

At the end of the day, I understand that life has roadblocks, and life is like school – you’ll be tested; we gotta pass it. DJ Khaled

The journey is part of the experience – an expression of the seriousness of one’s intent. One doesn’t take the A train to Mecca. Anthony Bourdain

The late Anthony Bourdain was a renowned chef, best-selling author, TV personality, and travel expert. He was an advocate of adventures and a great storyteller.

As a traveler and writer, I envied his lifestyle of constant traveling and admired the way he turned ordinary, casual conversations with locals into eye-opening, engrossing stories. A quick Google search will give you pages upon pages of words of wisdom from this man, and this travel quote is one of my favorites.

Our destination matters, yes, but often the journey that takes us there is just as rewarding. It’s also a great call to enjoy the present.

When all’s said and done, all roads lead to the same end. So it’s not so much which road you take, as how you take it. Charles de Lint

Success is not a destination, but the road that you’re on. Being successful means that you’re working hard and walking your walk every day. You can only live your dream by working hard towards it. That’s living your dream. Marlon Wayans

If you don’t know where you are going, any road will get you there. Lewis Carroll

Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling. Margaret Lee Runbeck

The pleasure we derive from journeys is perhaps dependent more on the mindset with which we travel than on the destination we travel to. Alain de Botton

This travel and road trip quote is another one of my favorites. I’ve been on trips where I didn’t fully enjoy myself. I was either exhausted from a jam-packed itinerary, worried about the work I left back home, or annoyed with my travel companion. My state of mind was definitely a factor in how much I enjoyed or hated my trip.

I believe travels are a form of cure for weary hearts and minds, but it also takes some level of mental and emotional preparation to travel. Beautiful destinations can be a waste when you’re just not in the right state to travel.

One’s destination is never a place, but rather a new way of seeing things. Henry Miller

Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by. Robert Frost

5. Quotes about long drives and road trips with loved ones and the people you meet

Solo drives and road trips are great, but let’s face it: road trips with our loved ones are much more fun. The shared excitement, the road trip games, the music you bond over with, the food you share — there’s just so much to experience and look forward to when taking trips with family and friends.

Apart from our loved ones, what also makes our trips colorful are the interesting and like-minded people we meet on the road. They contribute to building a library of great stories that we can come back to from time to time. Because of travel restrictions, 2020 has been a year of throwback posts for some of us, made possible by the wealth of stories we’ve accumulated over years of traveling.

In case you need more reasons to take that long overdue road trip with your loved ones, here are some long drive quotes to ignite that travel buzz. How about reading and pondering over these road trip quotes while you’re, well, on the road with them?

No road is long with good company. Turkish Proverb

A road trip is a way for the whole family to spend time together and annoy each other in interesting new places. Tom Lichtenheld

This road trip quote highlights the fun and chaos in family trips. Traveling with those we love is one of the best things in the world, but it can also be overwhelming, especially for parents who have to plan the trip and take care of kids. One moment you’re all laughing at your dad’s jokes and before you know it, your siblings are driving you crazy.

It’s in those quiet little towns, at the edge of the world, that you will find the salt of the earth people who make you feel right at home. Aaron Lauritsen

We all have that one friend who is either on a road trip or planning a road trip or thinking about a road trip or talking to people who are on road trip or posting quotes about road trips. Crestless Wave

I’m probably that friend who’s thinking about a road trip and posting quotes about road trips. 😆 What about you?

Some roads aren’t meant to be travelled alone. Unknown

You will never be completely at home again, because part of your heart always will be elsewhere. That is the price you pay for the richness of loving and knowing people in more than one place. Miriam Adeney

This inspirational road trip quote probably speaks to most of us. Traveling allowed me to not just learn about new places and witness different ways of living, but also meet new people. Most of the closest friends I have now are the people I traveled with.

I once joined a group of travelers and we were all strangers, but we ended up going home as friends. I’ve also met locals and tour guides who later became my friends. A shared love for travel and a willingness to open up to strangers are the keys to making new connections. The possibilities are endless and connections made on the road may turn into lifelong friendships.

A man practices the art of adventure when he breaks the chain of routine and renews his life through reading new books, traveling to new places, making new friends, taking up new hobbies and adopting new viewpoints. Wilfred Peterson

These are just some of the best quotes about long drives, car rides, and traveling on the road. I hope that like me, you were inspired by these road trip quotes to pack your bags and travel again. The open road is calling. Your next epic road trip is waiting to happen.

Which of these inspirational long drive quotes and road trip quotes resonated with you? Got any travel quotes I might have missed? Leave a comment below!

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300 Quotes About Road Trip & Adventures With Your Loved Ones

Looking for the best quotes about road trip? This is an exhaustive list of awesome road trip quotes, whether you want some long drive quotes with family or looking for quotes about road trips with friends.

Road trips are one of the best ways to explore destinations no matter where. With your favorite playlists, snacks and humans packed in, and the cool breeze romancing you – it is why the phrase ‘the journey is more than the destination is so famous! I mean, who doesn’t love road trips?

If you are back from adventurous journeys on the road and want some great road trip captions for Instagram to go with your road trip hashtags or you want some inspirational quotes about road trip to entice you to get on the roads, this post has it all.

Check out this list for famous road trip quotes, funny quotes about road trips, and quotes about road trip with families and friends.

BEST QUOTES ABOUT ROAD TRIPS

Let’s start with the list of the best road trip quotes ever – the famous quotes about road trips that you must have come across many times, your favorite ones, and more.

“If you don’t know where you’re going, any road will take you there.” – George Harrison

“All he needed was a wheel in his hand and four on the road.” – Jack Kerouac

“If you’re on a road trip, you need driving music.” – Edgar Wright

“A bend in the road is not the end of the road unless you fail to make the turn.” – Helen Keller

“There is something about the momentum of travel that makes you want to just keep moving, to never stop.” – Bill Bryson

“There’s only one place I want to go and it’s to all the places I’ve never been.” – Nikki Rowe

“Of all the paths you take in life make sure a few of them are dirty.” – John Muir

“Sometimes you find yourself in the middle of nowhere and sometimes in the middle of nowhere you find yourself.” – Stacy Westfall

“Road trips are the equivalent of human wings. Ask me to go on one, anywhere. We’ll stop in every small town and learn the history and stories, feel the ground, and capture the spirit. Then we’ll turn it into our own story that will live inside our history to carry with us, always. Because stories are more important than things.” – Victoria Erickson

“Now, on this road trip, my mind seemed to uncrinkle, to breathe, to present to itself a cure for a disease it had not, until now, known it had.” – Elizabeth Berg

“Road trips and sunsets are the ingredients of happiness.” 

“A man practices the art of adventure when he breaks the chain of routine and renews his life through reading new books, traveling to new places, making new friends, taking up new hobbies and adopting new viewpoints.” – Wilfred Peterson

“Happiness is planning a trip to somewhere new, with someone you love.” – Unknown

“The road less traveled is the road to adventure.”

SHORT QUOTES ABOUT ROAD TRIP

Want to keep it crisp and sweet? These road trip sayings are all the hitting the road quotes that are short and wise.

“Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason.” – Jerry Seinfeld

“Jobs fill your pocket, but adventures fill your souls.” – Jamie Lyn Beatty

“It’s a road trip! It  i s about adventure. It’s   not like we have somewhere to go.” – John Green

“Roads are a record of those who have gone before.” ― Rebecca Solnit

“People forget the years and remember moments” – Anne Beattie

“Happiness is a road trip.”  

“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.” – Helen Keller

“According to the map, we’ve only gone four inches.”

“Wherever you go, go with all your heart.” – Confucius

“People don’t take trips, trips take people.” – John Steinbeck

“Roads were made for journeys, not destinations.” – Confucius

“It feels good to be lost in the right direction.”

“It’s not the destination, it’s the journey.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“My favourite thing to do is to go where I’ve never been”. – Diane Arbus

“The journey, not the arrival matters.” – T.S. Eliot

“If you’re not lost, you’re not much of an explorer.” – John Perry Barlow

“Sometimes the best therapy is a long drive and good music.” – Unknown

“You may not find a path, but you will find a way.” – Tom Wolfe

“Live your life by a compass, not a clock.” – Stephen Covey

 “Adventure is out there.” – Up

“Life is too short to not go on that spontaneous road trip.”

“People don’t take trips, trips take people.”  –  John Steinback

“Life is meant for good friends and great adventures.” – Unknown

“You make me wanna roll my windows down and cruise.”  —  Florida Georgia Line

BEST ROAD TRIP CAPTIONS

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“The greatest part of a road trip isn’t arriving at your destination. It’s all the wild stuff which happens along the way.”   – Emma Chase

“So shut up, live, travel, adventure, bless and don’t be sorry” – Jack Kerouac

“Part of us believes the new car is better because it lasts longer. But, in fact, that’s the worst thing about the new car. It will stay around to disappoint you, whereas a trip to Europe is over. It evaporates. It has the good sense to go away, and you are left with nothing but a wonderful memory.” – Daniel Gilbert

“Life is beautiful if you are on the road to somewhere.” – Orhan Pamuk

“Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.” – Izaak Walton

“Look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else.” – Tom Stoppard

“If you come to a fork in the road, take it.” – Scott Myers

“A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles.” – Tim Cahill

“One’s destination is never a place, but rather a new way of seeing things.” – Henry Miller

“Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“It’s in those quiet little towns, at the edge of the world, that you will find the salt of the earth people who make you feel right at home.” – Aaron Lauritsen

 “And just like that, we’re on our way to everywhere.” – Emery Lord

“Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go.” – T.S Eliot

“I see my path, but I don’t know where it leads. Not knowing where I’m going is what inspires me to travel it.” – Rosalía de Castro

“We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we’re curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.” – Walt Disney

“I just go with the flow, I follow the yellow brick road. I don’t know where it’s going to lead me, but I follow it.” – Grace Jones

“Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey.” – Pat Conroy

“If we were meant to stay in one place we’d have roots instead of feet.” – Rachel Wolchin

“To awaken alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world. You are surrounded by adventure. You have no idea of what is in store for you, but you will, if you are wise and know the art of travel, let yourself go on the stream of the unknown.” – Freya Stark

“The best education you will ever get is traveling. Nothing teaches you more than exploring the world and accumulating experiences.” – Mark Paterson

“Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.” – Jack Kerouac

QUOTES ABOUT ROAD TRIP WITH FRIENDS

“Kilometers are shorter than miles. Save fuel, take your next trip in Kilometers.” – George Carlin

“Road trips required a couple of things: a well-balanced diet of caffeine, salt and sugar and an excellent selection of tunes—oh, and directions.” – Jenn McKinlay

“Look for chances to take the less-traveled roads. There are no wrong turns.”   — Susan Magsamen

“You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.” – William Hazlitt

“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I – I took the one less traveled by.” – Robert Frost

“The open road is there, it will always be there. You just have to decide when to take it.” – Chris Humphrey

“Traveling in the company of those we love is home in motion.” – Leigh Hunt

“Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don’t complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief, and jealousy. Don’t bury your thoughts, put your vision into reality. Wake Up and Live!” – Bob Marley

“A passenger on a road journey is in the hands of a driver; a reader embarking on a book is in the hands of a narrator.” – Romesh Gunesekera

“Discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” – Marcel Proust

“The struggles we endure today will be the ‘good old days’ we laugh about tomorrow.” – Aaron Lauritsen

“God made the world round so we would never be able to see too far down the road.” – Isak Dinesen

“I love being on the road. I love that lifestyle, traveling city to city, rocking out and moving on to the next place.” – Caleb Johnson

“I love road trips. You get into this Zen rhythm; throw the sense of time out the window.” – Miriam Toews

“A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.” – John Steinbeck

 “No one you have been and no place you have gone ever leaves you. The new parts of you simply jump in the car and go along for the rest of the ride. The success of your journey and your destination all depends on who’s driving.” – Bruce Springsteen

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BEST LONG DRIVE QUOTES

“A tourist is a fellow who drives thousands of miles so he can be photographed standing in front of his car.”  –  Emile

“Hey GPS, let’s take the scenic route today.”

“To the tourist, travel is a means to an end; to the traveller, it’s an end in itself.” — Marty Rubin

“I climb behind the steering wheel. I drive off immediately without once looking back; it’s a long journey but it leads to freedom.” – Corinne Hofmann

“Sometimes the most scenic roads in life are the detours you didn’t mean to take.” – Angela N. Blount

“Map out your future, but do it in pencil. The road ahead is as long as you make it. Make it worth the trip.”   – Jon Bon Jovi

“Well, we’re not in the middle of nowhere, but we can see it from here.”  –  Thelma & Louise

“A road trip is a way for the whole family to spend time together and annoy each other in interesting new places.” – Tom Lichtenheld

 “Lose your path. Find your way.” – Natalia Jaster

“In the end, you only regret the roads you didn’t take”  –  Lewis Carroll

“Just grab a friend and take a ride, together upon the open road.” – The Goofy Movie

“The open road is a beckoning, a strangeness, a place where a man can lose himself.” – William Least Heat Moon

“We must take adventures in order to know where we truly belong.”

“Road trips aren’t measured by mile markers, but by moments.”

“The world is full of wonderful things you haven’t seen yet. Don’t ever give up on the chance of seeing them.” — J.K. Rowling

“So remember when we were driving, driving in your car. Speed so fast I felt like I was drunk. City lights layout before us. And your arm felt nice wrapped ’round my shoulder. And I had a feeling that I belonged. I had a feeling I could be someone.” – Tracy Chapman

“As soon as I saw you, I knew an adventure was going to happen” – A. A. Milne

FUNNY LONG DRIVE QUOTES

“Never underestimate the therapeutic power of driving and listening to very loud music.” — Unknown

“That’s why I love road trips, dude. It’s like doing something without actually doing anything.” – John Green

 “I don’t know where I’m going from here but I promise it won’t be boring.” – David Bowie 

“It doesn’t matter how old you get, buying snacks for a road trip should always look like an unsupervised 9-year-old was given $100.”

“Driving at night is about communicating with lights.” – Lukhman Pambra

“Is it a real road trip if you don’t make at least one bad decision?”

“I wonder why it is that when I plan a route too carefully, it goes to pieces, whereas if I blunder along in blissful ignorance aimed in a fancied direction I get through with no trouble.”   – John Steinbeck

“We all have that one friend who is either on a road trip or planning a road-trip or thinking about a road-trip or talking to people who are on road-trip or posting quotes about road-trip.” – Crestless Wave

“In 1903 the Wright brothers invented airplanes because in 1902 they took a road trip across the country with their family.” – Bill Engvall

“There are two kinds of travel: first class and with children.” – Robert Benchley

“The American tendency in travel; one goes not so much to see, but to tell of it afterward.” – John Steinbeck

“My therapist and I even have a joke about it: shit is truly fucked up when I start threatening to take a road trip.” – Chris Gethard

“ The best part of a road trip isn’t arriving at your destination. It’s the fast-food along the way.”

“My favorite childhood memory is my parents paying for my holidays.”

INSPIRATIONAL LONG RIDE CAPTIONS FOR INSTAGRAM

 “I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I may have ended up where I intended to be.” – Douglas Adams

“The freedom of the open road is seductive, serendipitous and absolutely liberating.” – Aaron Lauritsen

“I take to the open road, healthy, free, the world before me.” – Walt Whitman

“I guess the lesson is you can’t go everywhere. You should still go everywhere you can.”   — Charles Finch

“Happiness is a road trip with a good playlist.” 

“Still, around the corner, there may wait, A new road or a secret gate.” – J. R. R. Tolkien

“The greater the complication, the richer the tale.” – Thor F. Jensen

“If you make the mistake of looking back too much, you aren’t focused enough on the road in front of you.” – Brad Paisley

“The only impossible journey is the one you never begin” – Tony Robbins

“I get emotionally attached to the cars ahead of me on long road trips.” 

“Making memories one road trip at a time.” — Unknown

“Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and enjoy the journey.” – Babs Hoffman

“When all’s said and done, all roads lead to the same end. So it’s not so much which road you take, as to how you take it.” – Charles de Lint

“Happiness is a car, the open road, and a best friend.”

“Travel sparks our imagination, feeds our curiosity, and reminds us how much we all have in common.” – Deborah Lloyd

“The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.” – Oprah Winfrey mount

“Always take the scenic route, you never know what adventures you will find.”– Unknown

“You Can’t Find The Right Roads When The Streets Are Paved.” – Bob Marley

 “Attitude is the difference between an ordeal and an adventure.” – Bob Bitchin

“Making memories, one road trip at a time.”

“Every journey is simultaneously a beginning and an ending: I was leaving my old life behind and starting on a road trip to find a new me.” – Debi Tolbert Duggar

“My life is full of mistakes. They’re like pebbles that make a good road.”– Unknown

“The pleasure we derive from journeys is perhaps dependent more on the mindset with which we travel than on the destination we travel to.” – Alain de Botton

“In life, it’s not where you go – it’s who you travel with.” – Charles M. Schulz

“No road is long with good company.” – Turkish Proverb

“When in doubt – choose adventure!” – Thor F. Jensen

“May your adventures bring you closer together, even as they take you far away from home” – Trenton Lee Stewart

“No matter how far you have gone on the wrong road, turn around.” – Turkish Proverb

FAMILY ROAD TRIP QUOTES

Taking road trips with families is another level of adventure – a different one than you can expect. It is overwhelming, hilarious and deeply enriching in many ways. These family road trip quotes and scenic route captions are perfect quotes about road trip with families.

“Traveling can never be taken for granted, no matter how meticulous the preparations.”  —  Eugene Linden

“Road trips are the equivalent of human wings. Ask me to go on one, anywhere.”  –  Victoria Erickson

“You can be writing every day. When you go on a road trip, the trip itself becomes part of the story.” ― Steve Rushin

“I travel not to go anywhere but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.” – Robert Louis Stevenson

“I’m on the road constantly. I’m a nomad. I don’t really have a home right now. I don’t identify with one place in particular.” – Daya

“Kids don’t remember their best day of television.”

“So much of who we are is where we have been” – William Langewiesche

“In the end, kids won’t remember that fancy toy you bought them, they will remember the time you spent with them.” – Kevin Heath

“Fill your life with adventures, not things. Have stories to tell, not stuff to show.”

“Some beautiful paths can’t be discovered without getting lost.” – Erol Ozan

“There are no perfect parents and there are no perfect children, but there are plenty of perfect moments along the way.” — Dave Willis

“I have found out that there ain’t a no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.” – Mark Twain

 “The entire road trip could be summed up as one giant attempt to keep from crashing the car during fits of rage and fits of hysteria.” – Kari Martindale

“The greatest legacy we can leave our children is happy memories.” – Og Mandino

“Having kids is a reason to travel, never a reason to stop.”

“Every day we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.” — Charles R Swindoll

QUOTES ABOUT ROAD TRIP ADVENTURES

Long drives are nothing but unlimited opportunities for lifetime adventures. Don’t seem convinced? Check these fantastic quotes about road trips which will echo these thoughts.

“If you don’t know where you are going, any road will take you there.”– Lewis Carroll

“No, no! The adventures first, explanations take such a dreadful time.” – Lewis Carroll

“Wherever you get to is better than where you started. To stay on the road is a massive achievement.” – Anthony Joshua

“Somewhere on your journey, don’t forget to turn around and enjoy the view.”

“Look at life through the windshield, not the rearview mirror.” – Byrd Baggett

“The gladdest moment in human life, me thinks, is a departure into unknown lands.” – Sir Richard Burton

“The road goes on forever and the party never ends.” – Robert Earl Keen

“Adventure is a need.” – Toba Beta

“I can speak to my soul only when the two of us are off exploring deserts or cities or mountains or roads.” ― Paulo Coelho

“What we find in a soul mate is not something wild to tame, but something wild to run with.” – Robert Brault

“Two of the greatest gifts we can give our children and roots and wings” – Hodding Carter

“Once the travel bug bites there is no known antidote, and I know that I shall be happily infected until the end of my life.” – Michael Palin

“The journey is the destination.” – Dan Eldon

“Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling.” – Margaret Lee Runbeck

“The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.” – Wallace Stevens

“Even blind alleys lead somewhere.” – Marty Rubin 

“She wasn’t where she had been. She wasn’t where she was going, but she was on her way .” – Jodi Hills

“Once a year, go somewhere you have never been before.” – Dalai Lama

“An adventure is never an adventure when it happens. An adventure is simply physical and emotional discomfort recollected in tranquility.” – Tim Cahill

“Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.” – Ernest Hemingway

“Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.” – Mark Twain 

“An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.” – Gilbert K. Chesterton

“I want to go on a road trip, just you and me. The highway, the radio, the blue sky, the backroads, and with our windows down, we’ll talk about everything and nothing. We’ll sing our hearts out, and we’ll make memories that we’ll never forget. Just you and me.”

“To move, to breathe, to fly, to float, To gain all while you give, To roam the roads of lands remote, To travel is to live.” – Hans Christian Andersen

“Because he had no place he could stay in without getting tired of it and because there was nowhere to go but everywhere, keep rolling under the stars.” – Jack Kerouac

“At the end of the day, your feet should be dirty, your hair messy and your eyes sparkling.”   – Shanti

“The road must eventually lead to the whole world.” – Jack Kerouac

“There are no mistakes. Only new paths to explore.” – Gregory David Roberts

“Misadventure is still adventure.”

“What you’ve done becomes the judge of what you’re going to do – especially in other people’s minds. When you’re traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don’t have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.” – William Least Heat-Moon

“Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But that’s okay. The journey changes you; it should change you. It leaves marks on your memory, on your consciousness, on your heart, and on your body. You take something with you. Hopefully, you leave something good behind.” – Anthony Bourdain

“Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.” – Terry Pratchett

“What it takes to realize everything is fine around you? A road trip to the mountains where your soul dwells in the echoes of the winds that carry fragments of clouds with them. What does it take to realize the world is going back to chaos and infinite hurry? End of the aforementioned road trip.” – Crestless Wave

Whether it is to the mountains or the beaches, a road trip is all about the journey, literally. These quotes about road trip are the perfect words or the best road trip quotes capturing all the emotions.

“Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey.” – Pat Conroy

An open mind and a willing heart are the beginning of many a great adventure. Let’s get started.” – Colleen Houck

“When you travel with your children you are giving them something that can never be taken away experience, exposure, and a way of life.” – Pamela T. Chandler

“If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine; it is lethal.” – Paulo Coelho

“Live life with no excuses, travel with no regret.” – Oscar Wilde

“Where will my heart lead if I’ve yet to wander so many unknown paths?” – Paulo Coelho

“If happiness is the goal – and it should be, then adventure should be top priority.” – Richard Branson

“Real adventure is defined best as a journey from which you may not come back alive, and certainly not as the same person. ”  – Yvon Chouinard

“Life is like a road trip – Enjoy each day and don’t carry too much luggage.”

“Adventures don’t always require a plane ticket .” – Dylan Thuras

“Nothing adventured, nothing attained.” – Peter McWilliams

MORE ROAD TRIPPING QUOTES

Ending this big list of quotes about road trip with these long drive captions that deserve a mention here for sure.

“Each new day is an invitation to an adventure of your own making.” – Steven Redhead

“Are we there yet?”

 “If we wait until we are ready, we will be waiting for the rest of our life!” – Lemony Snicket

“This is how you have adventures. You find cool things and you do them. You don’t just read books about them!” – Jonathan King

“Every epic adventure starts with a bad idea.”

“On the road again, Goin’ places that I’ve never been, Seein’ things that I may never see again, And I can’t wait to get on the road again” – Willie Nelson

“Being soaked alone is cold. Being soaked with your best friend is an adventure.” – Emily Wing Smith

“I’m really in the mood for a long drive with no real destination.”

These road travel quotes are perfect for captions on social media to depict the mood.

“Get your motor runnin’, Head out on the highway, Lookin’ for adventure.” – Steppenwolf

“It’s not about the destination. It’s getting there that’s the good part.” – Morgan Matson

“Some of the most beautiful encounters, Are the unexpected ones.” – Mimi Novic

 “Adventure, without it, why to live?” – Hortense Odlum

“Be brave. Be wild, and stay forever hungry for love, art, knowledge, and adventure” – Erin Van Vuren

“A good traveller has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.” – Lao Tzu

“Don’t dwell on your past – it’s not where you’re going”

“All great adventures have moments that are really crap.” – Ellen Potter

“Difficult roads often lead to beautiful destinations.”

“Sometimes, the people around you won’t understand your journey. They don’t need to – it’s not for them.” – Joubert Botha

“The possibility of anything happening amplified the feeling of freedom, not knowing what might happen next.” – Joey Gnarly

“Adventure is just bad planning.”

That’s it about the best quotes about road trip. Hope you found your favorite road trip quotes. If you have more interesting road trip captions, do share them in the comments.

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