All the beautiful printables and checklists for planning an epic road trip!
When planning a long road trip it can be hard to know how many hours of driving you should do in a day. As a general rule, it is recommended that you drive no more than 450 miles or 8 and a half hours on any day of a road trip. Consider planning by the…
VACATION! Are you ready to get to planning your dream long distance road trip? Plan to divide up your long distance into legs. Make your legs between 300 and 400 miles and plan each leg as a mini trip. Be sure to have a plan for days when you will need to drive more than…
When you spend many days on the road, like on a road trip, it is handy to be able to cook food in the car! My family does this often, so here is what we do. My husband was a full time truck driver for many years and he cooked breakfast and lunch in the…
A spontaneous road trip is a great way to spend a long weekend or even a lazy Saturday. What exactly is a spontaneous road trip and how can you enjoy one? A spontaneous road trip is a road trip that is not planned in advance. Spontaneous road trips can be hours or days long, but…
Yesterday was my husband’s last day at his day job. Should you quit your job to travel? Have you been planning a long road trip and dream of being able to travel for more than two weeks? Most people cannot afford to simply quit their job and travel full time, where is the money coming…
When planning a road trip the biggest cost is gas, followed by lodging! There are lots of options that you can try out to save a buncha money or have a new experience on your next road trip. There are a lot of really interesting and comfortable places to stay when on a road trip,…
There are a lot of great features in Google Maps that you can use to plan your trip, and to make the navigation smoother. There are a lot of great apps that I hear often in the road trip community, but I do 99% of my planning and navigation in Google Maps. Google Maps can…
My family likes to travel on a budget, so we usually drive our own car, but after asking a bunch of other road trippers, I am wondering if it really is cheaper to drive my own car. Driving your own car may seem to be the cheaper option, but the cost of maintenance, depreciation, fuel…
We just got back from a long road trip and planning and budgeting was a big chore. I asked 200 experienced road tripping families how much they spent on their most recent trip. 15 of those trips were over a month long, I analyzed all the road trips over 28 days and got the numbers:…
Even if you only have one day, you can plan a great trip. While you may want to spend a few days away, when you only have one day there are some tricks you can use to make the most of it. A one day road trip should be about 120-300 miles from your starting…
