Quotes About Road Trips

The best road trippin quotes for fun travel

Road trips are fun to go on.  Here, we provide 120 great quotes about road trips for your next excursion with your family. They’re fun quotes for practically every adventure you’re looking to have and are perfect for those interested in harnessing the power of adventure through quotes.

Quotes about road trips with friends and families

Taking trips with your friends and family is great, because it helps you build community, helps you grow, and really builds the relationship. Take the tip to get to know each other and enjoy each other’s company. Play fun games while on the road. Share stories that you never shared before. Enjoy every minute with your loved ones. Here are some great quotes about road trips with friends and family.

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

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

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

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

No road is long with good company – proverb

Happiness is a road trip – unknown

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

“Life was meant for great adventures and close friends.”

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

Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life. – Jack Kerouac

 Discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. – Marcel Proust ‘

“Two of the greatest gifts we can give our children and roots and wings” – Hodding Carter

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

It doesn’t matter where you are going. It matters who you are going with – Unknown

Thinking and driving quotes

Sometimes when we drive, it’s a good thinking time.  Thinking lets you get deep, and when you’re driving, thinking is a great activity for you to do. I am very pensive and I love to think about life and my future while behind the wheel. I find that it’s a great time to dream and consider others. It’s a great time to talk to God because I have nothing but time. I encourage you to do the same on the road. Talk to God and try to hear what He says. Here are some great thinking and driving quotes to use.

Leave sooner, drive slower, live longer. Author Unknown 

Everything you need to get that relaxed driving that brings consistency only comes with practice. John Surtees

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

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

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

“I used to think that driving, sleepless, ambitious labor was what you needed to succeed.” – Charles Kuralt

“The feeling of freedom, driving into the scenery as green and lush as a postcard of Ireland was close to bliss” – Diane Meier

Driving in your world seems a bit dangerous.” – Missy Lyons

“Don’t feel guilty about driving somewhere nice to run. If people can drive to a park to eat hot dogs, you can drive there to run.”  – Bill Rodgers

“I was lonely driving here tonight so I hugged the road.” – Jay London

“If you don’t know where you are going, any road will get you there.” Lewis Carroll

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

Never drive faster than your guardian angel can fly. Author Unknown

Funny road trip quotes

Here’s some great funny road trip quotes which will make you chuckle. They’re fun, funny, and good for if you need a laugh when you’re on the road.

“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

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

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

 “I need a vacation so long; I forget all my passwords!”

It’s bad manners to let vacation wait!

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

“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

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

 “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

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

“I just said we’d make it across. I didn’t say anything about the wheels staying on.” – Road Trip (the movie)

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

“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

Road trip quotes for couples and love

Is there any good quotes about road trips and love? Here’s some great quotes about this! They’re great, and really harness the power of love, and the love you feel when traveling with someone on these grand adventures. There is something so special about spending time with the one that you love about road tripping together.

“Couples who travel together stay together.”

“And if travel is like love, it is, in the end, mostly because it’s a heightened state of awareness, in which we are mindful, receptive, undimmed by familiarity and ready to be transformed. That is why the best trips, like the best love affairs, never really end.” – Pico Iyer

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

“We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.”— Anais Nin

“Sometimes, reaching out and taking someone’s hand is the beginning of a journey. At other times, it is allowing another to take yours.” — Vera Nazarian

“Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction.” — Antoine Desaint-Exuper

“We are the luckiest people in the world. How many couples get to travel together and spend quality time like we do?” – Lindsey Gormley

“I’ve fallen in love with adventures, so I begin to wonder, if that’s why I’ve fallen for you.” – E. Grin

“If happiness is the goal – and it should be, then adventure should be top priority.” – Richard Branson

“Here’s to all the places we went. And here’s to all the places we’ll go. And here’s to me, whispering again and again and again and again: I love you.” – John Green

“Here’s to road trips, red eyes, and a lifetime of adventure together.” 

“Actually, the best gift you could have given her was a lifetime of adventures.” Lewis Carroll 

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

Long drives quotes

Long drives are great, and below are some amazing quotes for you to remember during your next long drive. These are fun, thought-provoking, and really good if you’re struggling to think of something during the next long stretch of road.

“Sometimes the most scenic roads in life are the detours you didn’t mean to take.” – Angela N. Blount, Once Upon an Ever After (2014)

“Lose your path. Find your way.” – Natalia Jaster, Kiss the Fae (2020)

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

“A long drive is a million times more invigorating than a day at the spa.” – me, just checking you’re paying attention.

 “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, The Year of Pleasures

“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

“My life is the road, man. I need to keep moving.” – Unknown

“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 out history to carry with us always. Because stories are more important than things”. – Victoria Erickson

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

“An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.” – G. K. Chesterton

“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 Lin

“Until you step into the unknown, you don’t know what you’re made of.” – Roy T. Bennett

“I wanted to be a truck driver. I love driving long distances!!!” ― Karen Mason

Quotes about roads of life and journeys

Life and roads have their own paths, their own goals, and here are some great quotes about roads of life and journeys. Each of them are good if you want something provocative, and something that really gets you thinking.

“The journey is never ending. There’s always gonna be growth, improvement, adversity; you just gotta take it all in and do what’s right, continue to grow, continue to live in the moment.” Antonio Brown

The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step – Lau Tzu

“Everything I was I carry with me, everything I will be lies waiting on the road ahead.” ― Ma Jian, Red Dust: A Path Through China

“Life is like a road trip enjoy each day and don’t carry too much baggage.”

“Life is a journey to be experienced, not a problem to be solved.” – Winnie the pooh

Life is a journey, and if you fall in love with the journey, you will be in love forever. – Peter Hagerty 

“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

“Serendipity was my tour guide, assisted by caprice” ― Pico Iyer

“Sometimes it’s the journey that teaches you a lot about your destination”. Drake

“Focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it.” Greg Anderson

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

“Life is a Long Journey between Human Being and Being Human. Let’s take at least one step each day to cover the distance.” – Wordionst

“A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike.” John Steinbeck

Wherever the road takes you quotes

Sometimes you have to leave it up to fate. Sometimes, letting them have control is vital, especially if you’re not sure what to do. I remember one time I get in my car in ended up 3 hours away in other city. Sometimes you have to be spontaneous and just drive. Drive to Atlanta, drive to Orlando, drive to Miami beach, just do it!  Here are some great quotes about wherever the road takes you.

“Lincoln Road that sorrow is most difficult for the young because it, “takes them unawares.” The old, he said, have learned to anticipate difficulty. Lincoln wrote that sorrow is most difficult for the young because it, “takes them unawares.” The old, he said, have learned to anticipate difficulty.” – Author: Richard Brookhiser

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

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

“When you’re on the open road, there’s no such thing as inconvenience, only a surprise adventure.” – We Dream of Travel

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

“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 

 “There is no wide road which leads to the Muses.” Author: Propertius

“Wandering’s the most addictive drug there is, I think, and every hidden road leads on to a dozen more.” – Author: Stephen King

“But one must go where one’s road leads, even when it’s a distressing road.” Author: Piers Anthony

“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

“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 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

“A foot 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, Song of the Open Road

Quotes about road trips alone

Road trips are sometimes best alone. Sometimes you need uninterrupted time alone to recharge yourself or maybe even to talk to God. Here are some great quotes about road trips, doing them alone, and what they can do for you.

“You are the one that possesses the keys to your being. You carry the passport to your own happiness.” Diane von Furstenberg

“Dare to live the life you always wanted.”

“Traveling alone will be the scariest, most liberating, life-changing experience of your life. Try it at least once!”

“Go solo, go far.” –Unknown

“Don’t be scared to walk alone. Don’t be scared to like it.” — John Mayer

 “Travel only with thy equals or thy betters; if there are none, travel alone.”

“My alone feels so good — I’ll only have you if you’re sweeter than my solitude.” Warsan Shire

“The man who goes alone can start today, but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.” Henry David Thoreau

“I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone because they reflect more.” Thomas Jefferson

“Always go with the choice that scares you the most, because that’s the one thing that is going to require the most from you.” Caroline Myss

 ‘You do not travel if you are afraid of the unknown, you travel for the unknown, that reveals you with yourself.’ – Ella Maillart

‘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

 “There are some places in life where you can only go alone. Embrace the beauty of your solo journey.” – Mandy Hale

Best caption for road trips

Sometimes you just need a good caption to capture the road trip. Here are some great captions for you to use during your next road trip. You can even customize your favorite photos with these! Add the captions to your Instagram, Facebook, Pinterest, TikTok, etc.

“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

“Communing with the open road. It listens, feels, and understands.

Driving on the highway, listening to the radio, rolling the windows down, and breathing the wild air. What a great time to be alive!

 Road trip hair don’t care.

Sometimes, all you need is a good friend and a full tank of gas.

I don’t care how long it takes, but I’m going somewhere beautiful.

“Discovering myself on a road trip.”

“All I need is one wheel in hand and four wheels on the road.”

“If a police car isn’t after you, you’re not doing it right.”

“Meanwhile… this is my view of the breakfast picnic.”

“We’ve run out of things to talk about. Send help.”

“Life is fleeting, and so is time. Take that spontaneous road trip while you still can.”

 “It is not down in any map. True places never are.”

Conclusion

There you are 120 different road trip captions for you to check out. The next time you’re about to go out on the road and just drive…wherever, consider these! They’re great for anyone looking for adventure and looking for something to truly stimulate their mind and drive.