I love motorcycles, camping, road trips, and solo travel. It’s especially great when you get to do all of them together. I almost always ride my motorcycle when I am…
Wondering How to Travel in this New World?
Travel has changed immeasurably in 2020. But what hasn’t changed is our need for connection, for new challenges, and for following our curiosity. We’ve all been wondering how to travel…
Taking Solo Road Trips: 30+ Vital Tips From Leading Travel Experts
Taking solo road trips can be such an exciting and liberating way to explore the world around you. These road trip tips from the experts will help you plan, prepare,…
The Many Roads to Freedom: The Women Living the #VanLife
What if we could live our whole lives with the freedom a road trip affords us? A growing number of women are doing just that — shedding their homes, mortgages, and traditional jobs for a full-time life of the open road. These are the bold women living the #vanlife.
Why You Should Travel with Your Parents
As we rolled into an abandoned desert gas station at 1am, I knew we were done for. To my left, a shirtless trucker filled up while simultaneously puffin’ his cig. To…
You Say We’re Different: Six Adorable Coastal Towns That Look Almost Exactly the Same (But Have a Lot to Offer on Their Own, Too)
Six towns on the East Coast you’ll love to love. One of the things I love about America’s east coast is the beautiful brick-lined coastal towns that make up our historic…
Get Away from those Post-Christmas Blues
It’s January. Time to hit the roads! Photo from Stella Blu on Flickr. Ah, January. Arguably the least enjoyable month of the year. Christmas has been and gone, the decorations…
Florida to Massachusetts, Take Two: What Was I Thinking?
Samantha muses on road trip deja vu. Image from Wikimedia Commons. I don’t know why I thought that driving twice from Florida to Massachusetts would be easy, fun, or comfortable….
Florida to Massachusetts, Take One
Samantha’s road trip brought her up the East Coast to her new home of Massachusetts. Image from panoramio.com. Thirty hours on the road and 16 states later, I have hauled…
The best kinds of people to know when you are traveling cross country solo
I consider myself lucky. I know tons of great people scattered all across the United States. I made these people priorities in choosing my destinations on my cross country trip….
When your home isn’t your own – it’s time to take to the road.
Every now and then you stumble into just the right moment. This happened to me over the weekend. I was meeting a friend at a bookstore. I was in the…
Road Tripping Part 1
There is something distinctly American about road trips: The highways and interstates, wide open roads, cheap gas, symbolic rest stops, music and drive-through fast food. I’ve driven across country to…
5 Books for Road Trips
On the Road by Jack Kerouac Probably the most famous road trip book ever written, Kerouac’s fictionalization of his cross-country wanderings is known as the book of the Beat Generation,…
Driving in the East of the USA
My first major road trip was when I was seven. And really, it wasn’t a trip as I never did make it back to the starting point. When my family…
Traveling with Purpose
While in Europe, I traveled with no purpose beyond seeing whatever city I landed in. I went to Rome with a vague sense that seeing the sights was important but…