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101 Inspirational Road Trip Quotes, Captions + Puns

101 Inspirational Road Trip Quotes, Captions + Puns

There is no better feeling than hitting the open road. This collection of road trip quotes is meant to inspire your next adventure or help you find that perfect Instagram caption.

We’ve organized this list featuring quotes about road trips into various topics so you can easily search for a particular theme.

Best Road Trip Quotes

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

2. “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

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

The open road is there, it will always be there. You just have to decide when to take it. Road trip quote

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

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

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

7. “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

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

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

If you make the mistake of looking back too much, you aren't focused on the road in front of you.

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

11. “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

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

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

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

A bend in the road is not the end of the road, unless you fail to make the turn

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

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

 

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

18. “God made the world round so we would never be able to see too far down the road.” – Isak Dinesen

God made the world round so we would never be able to see too far down the road. Isak Dinesen road trip quote

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

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

21. “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

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

Funny Quotes About Road Trips

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

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

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

Have you noticed that anyone going slower than you is an idiot and anyone going faster than you is a maniac. George Carlin road trip quote

26. “Have you noticed that anyone going slower than you is an idiot and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?” – George Carlin

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

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

29. “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

I love road trips, you get this sen rhythm; throw the sense of time out the window

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

31. “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.” – Anonymous

32. “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

33. “Kids don’t remember their best day of television but always remember their best day on the road.”

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

We all have that one friend who is either on a roadtrip or planning a roadtrip or thinking about a roadtrip or talking to people who are on a roadtrip or posting quotes about a roadtrip

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

36. “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

37. “Roadtripophobia (n.) The fear of not having any road trips currently booked.”

38. “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

Friendship Road Trip Quotes

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

40. “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

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

In life, it's not where you go, it's who you travel with. Charles M Schultz road trip quote

42. “In life, it’s not where you go – it’s who you travel with.” – Charles M. Schulz

43. “Traveling in the company of those we love is home in motion.” – Leigh Hunt

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

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

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

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

One of the great things about travel is that you find out how many good kind people there are

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

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

50. “I love when people say “just quit your job and travel.” Taking an Uber from the bar to my home is the only travel I can afford.”

51. “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

52. “Asking someone else to drive your sports car is like asking someone else to kiss your girlfriend.” – Amit Kalantri

A journey is measured in friends rather than miles

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

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

55. “She wasn’t where she had been. She wasn’t where she was going, but she was on her way.”  – Jodi Hills

56. “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

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

58. “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

I have found out that there ain't no surer way to found out whether you like people or hate then than to travel with them

59. “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

60. “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

Road Trip Movie Quotes

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

62. “Adventure is out there.” – Up

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

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

Just grab a friend and take a ride together upon the open road

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

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

67. “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

68. “As soon as I saw you, I knew a grand adventure was about to happen.” – Winnie The Pooh

It's a dangerous business Frodo, going out your door

69. “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.” – The Lord of the Rings

70. “If you don’t know where you are going, any road will get you there.” – Alice In Wonderland

Short Road Trip Quotes

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

72. “Driving at night is about communicating with lights.” – Lukhman Pambra

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

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

75. “Roads are a record of those who have gone before.: – Rebecca Solnit

It's not the destination, it's the journey

76. “If you come to a fork in the road, take it.” – Scott Myers

77. “Always take the scenic route.” – Anonymous

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

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

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

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

And just like that, we're on our way to everywhere

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

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

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

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

86. “Happiness is a road trip with a good playlist.” – Anonymous

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

Happiness is a road trip with a good playlist

88. “Difficult roads often lead to beautiful destinations.” – Zig Ziglar

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

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

91. “The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.” – Oprah Winfrey

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

There are no mistakes, only new paths to explore

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

94. “Making memories, one road trip at a time.” – Anonymous

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

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

Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and enjoy the journey

Long Road Trip Quotes

97. “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

98. “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

99. “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

To awaken alone in a strange town us one of the pleasantest sensations in the world

100. “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

101. “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

Resources For Your Trip

After years of traveling, road trips are still our favorite way to travel because we can explore at our own pace and go where we want on our own terms. If you’re planning a road trip, consider some of our popular resources below:

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Happy Road Tripping,

Mark and Kristen

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