Are they your favorite way to travel?

What's your limit? 4hrs...7hrs...12hrs...More?

Do you pack a cooler and sleep in the cheapest motels, or eat at restaurants and find more high end places to sleep.

Is getting there half the fun for you?

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I use to love roadtrips, but don't love them as much now as I have a 2hr daily commute.

My recent trip to Lake Tahoe and San Francisco was a road trip from Salt Lake City.

By the time I got home, I'd had enough of the road, but for the first time in years, I actually enjoyed a road trip.

I do a combo of going cheap and not going cheap, driving instead of flying, packing a cooler instead of buying food along the way, but staying in nicer motels.

I've not ever taken a road trip where I'd stop at destinations along the way. I'd like to do that at some point. For me, my time is limited, so I try to make the drive as quickly as I can.

I haven't taken on in a while, a long one at least like a 2-3 day drive. But I use to love them, seeing the scenery, driving at 100+ mph on those open roads . Stopping when I felt like it when I saw something interesting. I prefer at least mid-range hotels, I already have a problem falling asleep in strange beds, to feel itchy too wouldn't help, learned a horrible lesson about Comfort Inns, never again. As far as food I prefer to stick with places I know or at least places that have a familiarity to them, like those family styled resturants, but yeah, I'll bring snacks.

Going to see Prince and Janet Jackson that weekend, I drove back and forth between LA and SD for 3 days in a row, insanity I know, but that whole sleeping in strange beds issue makes a 4hr roundtrip (and gas) worth it. I loved it actually, but the last time back I was too done and exhausted.

@ driving 100+

I have a lead foot when driving. Considering how much driving I do, I've had to focus on doing the speed limit to avoid speeding tickets.

On this last road trip, there were so many it wasn't even funny. I'm so bad, I had to set my cruise control to keep it legal.

Nothinbutjoy said:

@ driving 100+

I have a lead foot when driving. Considering how much driving I do, I've had to focus on doing the speed limit to avoid speeding tickets.

On this last road trip, there were so many it wasn't even funny. I'm so bad, I had to set my cruise control to keep it legal.

Exactly. There are some freeways in LA at a certain time nobody is around and it's sooo tempting, I hit that little button and relax.