25+ years ago my hubby and I drove from Orlando to Minneapolis to visit his sister and took 5 days to get there and 5 days to get back via a different route. We had a blast planning how far to go each day and what to see along the way. We went to several Civil War battlefields, Mammoth Cave, the St. Louis arch, the Wisconsin Dells, and Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore. We stopped at parks and had picnic lunches and just really enjoyed the sight-seeing.

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We took the kids and drove down from Vancouver through Washington and along the Oregon Coast to Northern California and back-up. The Oregon Coast is spectacular if it isn't raining. I've done the trip 3 times and the only time it hasn't rained was the one with the kids. We've done lots of driving for ski trips but those are destination road trips.

Many! It's our preferred way of travel. Mostly south, east, southeast, etc. Farthest we've gone in a car was Canada.

The only long road trips I've taken are from WA to Santa Barbara CA, which I've done many times. I'd stop in southern Oregon, sometimes drive down or over to the coast, down to Carmel, spend a couple of days with friends, then down to San Luis Obispo area to visit in-laws, then down to Santa Barbara. From there, many wine country trips, etc. We have spectacular scenery around here, whichever direction you drive, so even my weekend trips to other parts of WA, the San Juan Islands, the North Cascades Highway to eastern WA, the Oregon Coast or up into Canada are scenic and oftentimes jaw dropping.

We, DH, my mother and poodle, drove cross country from DC to SF along the southern route. It was a great road trip. The part that stands out the most is NM. We may never have planned a trip through that state and loved our three days there tremendously. The painted desert was a huge treat as well.

Otherwise, living in Northern California means we are fortunate enough to have many beautiful road trips easily accessible. A trip to Napa to the North or Yosemite to the South is always a treat and does not require much planning.

Many over the years. Our most memorable was from here in New Mexico with the kids when they were 12 and 2 y/o, on I-40 west through Arizona, to Carmel (CA), and then up the coast road to San Francisco. Across the bridge to Sausalito, then on to Lake Tahoe. From there we headed to Las Vegas and then home. We stayed several days every stop. I especially loved Carmel by the Sea. The kids loved SF. Emily got carsick and upchucked into her open suitcase on the winding road heading to Carmel and we had to drop everything off at a dry cleaners in Carmel by the Sea, near our hotel. That cost a small fortune to have it all cleaned quickly! None of us were particularly thrilled with Las Vegas. And, on the drive from Tahoe to Las Vegas we actually had a mountain lion run right alongside our car for about 1 minute. I have photos of it someplace. It was thrilling, as the mountain lion looked like he was just having fun chasing cars.

In 1979, my now dh(then bf) and I drove from NY to CA and back over the course of 6 weeks. We camped most of the time and slept in our old van when the weather was bad. We visited many national parks and historic sites. It was the summer before our senior year of college. A trip we've talked about many, many times over the years.

That trip inspired us to drive from PA to CA each year as we head to warmer So Cal for the winter. We aren't camping this time around. We stayed in hotels along the way. Last fall we re-visited the Grand Canyon going westbound and this spring we revisited Zion and Bryce Canyon on our way back east.

We're planning out our fall trip. Leaving the last week in October. We're planning a very southern route, visiting Charleston, New Orleans and San Antonio. Definitely a stop at Carlsbad Caverns and Joshua Tree.

Well this is sorta cheating because I flew from LA to Hartford...but then rented a car and drove to Lenox, MA where I stayed for a couple of weeks. Using Lenox as my base, I would take daily road trips and each one was better than the last. Off the top of my head, Williamstown, Stockbridge (yes it is a Norman Rockwell kind of place), Woodstock, VT, Hanover, NH, Manchester, VT, Dover, VT and so many others. Nothing is that far from Lenox and during the Fall, each drive is spectacular and the towns are wonderful.

Lots but I just returned from a trip to Bryce Canyon, Grand Canyon, Antelope Canyon and Zion National Park. One day is Las Vegas. We drove 1,218 miles. I was with two other friends. Last year we did Yellowstone and Grand Teton. Once before we “Road tripped” Scotland. Fun.

We've done lots of road trips. In 1976 a friend and I drove cross country from SoCal to Boston where she was starting law school.

We drove up the CA coast one year with the kids from SoCal to SF. I had done that several times with friends and DH.

DH and I have gone to New England several times.....NH, Vermont, Mass, Maine, etc....really love it up there.

In late winter/spring we plan to "do Florida." Jacksonville down the Atlantic Coast to the Keys then back up the Gulf Coast to Tampa.

DD and I did a big college tour when she was looking......we called it the "48 Colleges in 48 Hours Tour." Ha....not quite that hectic but in a week or so we hit the following campuses: Ohio State, Purdue, U Wis, U Minn, U Iowa, U Ill, Indiana U and U Kentucky.

We've also done road trips to Hilton Head, Savannah, Charleston.

Oh and trips to Tennessee when DS was in college there.

The nice thing is DH just retired so we don't have time constraints anymore!

We have taken several. The longest was this past summer when we drove to Glacier NP, our first major stop. We did stop in several other places on the way in Wyoming (Cheyenne, Devils Tower etc). On the way back we routed back through Montana and South Dakota, staying several days in Custer and going to several places in and around that area, then east through Sturgis and back home with a few out of the way stops along the way.

We have also done a lot of shorter trips here in there southeast, a week or less, mostly to the East Tennessee and North Carolina mountains, South Carolina, or Georgia mountains and Atlanta.

I'm envious of my friends who live in CA. The state has everything, from beaches to snow covered mountains/hills, the redwood forest...sigh.

Anyone want to sing "This land is your land?" lol

Lynn, I've never had a desire to go to Vegas.

One time dh flew to Boston for a case and he had to drive north to New England, a place I've always wanted to visit. The only thing he had to say was the traffic was horrible :)

We have done a number of family road trips. Some more scenic than others. We are in Orange County, CA and have driven from here to Portland Oregon, Minnesota, South Central Texas, Denver and a separate trip to Montrose, Colorado. Back East we have traveled between Lancaster, PA and other cities but not really road trips per se, as our stops such as NYC and Washington D.C. usually only a few hours away. Additionally we take trips to San Francisco and Las Vegas on a fairly regular basis. Do not consider the trips to Las Vegas scenic though. Each trip we take in the sights along the way. We have visited many national parks, historic spots and just fun attractions. We did a small Chicago to Minnesota road trip last year at my daughter’s request. My kids are now 22 and 25, not sure if or when we will be able to do one again but I hope it will happen.

We live in Pennsylvania. In 1978 we drove across the country and camped with a small tent. We cooked most of our meals since we had a very small budget. We were gone for 28 days. We slept in the car during a horrible Nebraska thunderstorm. We did white water rafting in Colorado. Our stop in Las Vegas provided a show to see the Righteous Brothers and Petula Clark. It was our only trip to Vegas, too. We loved Colorado. We drove across the desert to Southern California eventually going to Disneyland, then up along the coast to Santa Barbara, SAN Francisco, Redwood National Forest, etc. We went to Bend , Oregon and then headed east on a more northerly route.

We each kept a journal of our trip. We recorded all of the money that we spent on anything. Our total cost was $321 each. The Vegas show and Disneyland were our big splurges. We were sooo tired by the time we got to Minnesota that we drove straight through in order to get home. It was the trip of a lifetime for us.

When we drive to San Francisco from Los Angeles, we often take Hwy 101 because it is scenic. We also drive to Tuscon when we visit Arizona and St. George to visit friends in Utah and then visit parks from there. I've driven several times from San Francisco to Vancouver, BC, and there are several scenic ways to do this. I especially like the drive from Portland, Oregon through the Columbia River Gorge. From Tuscon we drove to Chiricahua National Monument, which is also very scenic and reminded me of Road Runner cartoons.

Favorite close places to drive from L.A. include Death Valley, Anza Borrego, and Paso Robles, which is where we go for wine and olive tasting. More locally, we drive through the Angeles National Forest and visit Malibu Creek State Park and other parks along PCH, which are good for hiking. Big Sur is another favorite drive, and they recently reopened the road after the landslide that closed it last year.

We’ve never taken a road trip that didn’t include a plane trip mainly because we both traveled by air for most of our careers and always had free airline tickets - plus the fact we generally didn’t care to take more than a week of vacation at a time or leave our cats longer than that. We have covered a lot of road on some vacations but with a plane ride on each end of the trip.

We were just talking about road trips last night - that we’d like to take some when we retire. We have some neighbors who have offered more of a live-in cat sitting arrangement so that would make us more likely to take the time for a driving trip.

Many, some short some long. Many revolve around river trips. Our bucket list is to take much longer road trips after retiring. DH and I enjoy the visiting time, North Carolina Mountains, all over Colorado, a bit in New England (for that one we flew then rented a car.). Last road trip was for our 8 day remote wilderness river trip, but only about 12 drive hours each way then fly To the river launch site. The largest roadless lower 49 US wilderness area.

We recently returned from a trip to CA where we drove 900 miles in our rental car, from San Francisco north to Sonoma Valley, then down to the central coast to visit vineyards, a lovely area and one that was new for us. We continued south and stayed in Venice on the canals, which was also a new area for us, and was chosen by one of our daughters who flew out to meet us for the southern CA portion of the trip. Lastly, we spent time in LA and San Diego, with a stop in Carlsbad for dinner with DH's sister and her husband. We flew home from San Diego. We did not do the coast road this time, choosing instead to take highways to maximize our time in the five destinations where we had accommodations.

Our next lengthy trip in the car will be a road trip of some sort. We are retired now and are liberated from almost all restraints!

I've done several road trips … the last one was in November 2016, when I drove from CT to FL and back.

CT to Maryland where I stayed with a cousin, and she, her husband and her parents (my uncle and aunt) went out to dinner. Then I drove to South Carolina on route 95, where I stopped for dinner at a wonderful BBQ place, and tried mustard-based BBQ sauce for the first time. Then on to Savannah, GA for lunch and looking at the ocean front. I'd wanted to do Hilton Head, but they'd just had a hurricane the week before. Then nightfall in upper Florida (rotten Motel 8, won't be staying at one again), with dinner at an Indian restaurant found on a lark. Next few nights at my brother's in St. Petersburg.

Return trip, I went up into the hills of western SC, stayed in Greenville, let my car climb a mountain the next morning and soaked in the peaceful atmosphere of Sassafras Mountain (the state's tallest mountain), which was restful after hearing the depressing electoral news that morning. Spent the night at another motel, then visited Cowpens, a Revolutionary War battlefield site.

That night I spent in NC with some friends mid-state, and we went out to dinner and had a great time. I was supposed to stop for two more nights in mid-Virginia with another friend, but had to get back home to the cats, who I started to fear might have run out of water.. they hadn't.

I love good road trips!!! I love combining them with visiting people, and with taking larks to see the sights!

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On previous road trips, my destination was New Orleans (for a Halloween weekend with a bunch of other folk the year before Katrina), and another years was a trip taking my brother out to college in Michigan, driving down to a camping event in lower Indiana, driving up to Madison Wisconsin for a job interview (stayed with friends), then into Canada with hopes of stopping at Niagara Falls (I didn't, the weather didn't cooperate), then driving on to Boston for a major science fiction convention, then back down to CT.

Then there was the New England road trip... CT to lower NH to see some sights, several nights in Maine, meeting with a couple friends for dinner and to see the fascinating home they'd built using cobb and wine bottles, and also seeing museums and stopping as far north as Searsport. Then going west across Maine to upper NH in hopes of climbing (in the car) Mount Washington -- weather put a stop to that part of the plan, but I did see my first moose! Stopped at a state park or two, but then ended up in Vermont, then driving south hitting another museum, finally arriving in MA where I visited Sturbridge village, prior to going home.

We do a lot of road trips- it feels like we're missing something if we don't do it every few months. My husband would say "We're overdue for a long drive. Where should we go?" Nowadays, it's usually a long drive up north to visit our son in San Jose, taking the long but beautiful highway 1/ 101. We did LA to Vancouver, BC when the kids were young, staying for 2 nights in Oregon and Seattle area. Maybi say I love Oregon and Washington! So green! (because it rains everyday, haha) it's God's country. When we moved to Wisconsin, we chose to drive and stopped frequently if we see an attraction or parks.

Since DH won't fly, all of our vacations are road trips. I don't think of long weekend trips as road trips though. To me road trips are a week or longer trips with no more than a few days spent in one place. I wouldn't call our drives to a single destination a road trip no matter how long the drive - and there have been some that have taken more than 15 hours of driving one way. We've been to New Brunswick/Nova Scotia twice. Took an "island" tour one year - through southern New England to Rhode Island and then took a ferry over to Long Island. Hopped around the southern tier of NYS. Did a loop over to Ohio then south to Mobile, Alabama, north to Atlanta, the Smoky Mountains, Gettysburg. Drove out to South Dakota via one route, then all over the state (with little side excursions to Nebraska, Wyoming, and Montana) and back home by another route. Toured the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. We're thinking about another westward trip next year. We like to drive!

I feel like I live in the west so everything is a road trip. But really not specifically. As a kid, we did a 22 state, month-long trip and it was amazing. We never did that with our kids.

My spouse and I are going to do New England next fall though. We will fly into Boston and work our way up to Maine. I don't yet know where we will be going and we might even freestyle much of the trip. We've been to Boston but I've never been through New England at all. I have a dear friend in New Hampshire so we'll stay there a couple days. I'd like to also do a western tour and get through Idaho, Montana and Wyoming in the next year or so as well.