“It’s my car now, but as soon as it’s fixed, it’ll be my daughter’s again.”
– Jeff Stahler
"Backpacking is money spent on education."
"Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and enjoy the journey."
– Babs Hoffman
“Straight roads are for fast cars, turns are for fast drivers.”
— Colin McRae
"Low self-esteem is like driving through life with your hand-brake on."
- Maxwell Maltz
“I travel a lot, I hate having my life disrupted by routine.”
– Caskie Stinnett
“Both optimists and pessimists contribute to our society. The optimist invents the airplane and the pessimist the parachute.”
- Gil Stern
“I’m taking 4 kids ages 6 and under on a 9-hour road trip. We’ve already had 2 major tantrums. We haven’t even left yet. Avenge my death.”
— James Breakwell
“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
"Only on a cruise shiip will you pay hundreds of dollar a day to sleep in a closet."
“A road trip is a way for the whole family to spend time together and annoy each other in interesting new places.”
– Tom Lichtenheld
"A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it."
- John Steinbeck
"We travel, initially, to lose ourselves, and we travel, next to find ourselves."
- Pico Iyer
“The worst thing about being a tourist is having other tourists recognize you as a tourist!”
– Russell Baker
"A bad day at sea is still better than a good day at work."
“Money may not buy happiness, but I’d rather cry in a Jaguar than on a bus.”
– Francoise Sagan
"I crossed a time zone and I feel younger already. If I keep traveling west, I can become immortal."
- Jarod Kintz
"When traveling with someone, take large doses of patience and tolerance with your morning coffee."
– Helen Hayes
“The mud will wash off but the memories will last a lifetime.”
"It’s bad manners to let vacation wait!"
"Getting out of bed would be 10x easier if there was a Caribbean ocean and 30 degree weather waiting outside for you."
“Boy, those French. They have a different word for everything.”
– Steve Martin
"I’m getting tired of waking up and not being at the beach."
"I’m a travel fiend on the road to recovery. Just kidding. I’m headed to the airport."
"Europeans: I drove 40 minutes to spend the weekend in Paris, then popped to Germany to visit family on the way home. Australians: I was in Queensland and drove for 18 hours. Now I’m still in Queensland."
"I get pretty much all the exercise I need walking down airport concourses carrying bags."
- Guy Clark
"How can people my age plan spontaneous trips to Thailand, I can barely afford a spontaneous soft pretzel."
"A road trip is a way for the whole family to spend time together and annoy each other in interesting new places."
– Tom Lichtenheld
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."
- Mark Twain
"Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo."
- Al Gore
"You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance."
– Franklin P. Jones
"The main point of a cruise is to eat until you weigh the same as the boat."
“Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go.”
— Truman Capote
“That’s why I love road trips, dude. It’s like doing something without actually doing anything.”
– John Green
"It's amazing how much stuff we get done the day before vacation?"
- Zig Ziglar
"There are good ships
and wood ships
and ships that sail the sea.
But the best ships
are friendships
and may they always be."
“When a man opens a car door for his wife, it’s either a new car or a new wife.”
– Prince Philip
"Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city."
– George Burns
“You’re not truly a parent until you’ve yelled at your kid for drinking fluid on a road trip because now they have to pee again.”
— Abe Yospe
"Everyone’s a little bit crazy and a little bit loud. But everyone’s sharing a generous amount of love."
“How is it that the first piece of luggage on the airport carousel never belongs to everyone?”
— George Roberts
"There are two kinds of travel – first class and with children."
– Robert Benchley
“Roadtripophobia (n.) The fear of not having any road trips currently booked.“
“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
“Never have more children than you have car windows.”
– Erma Bombeck
"A change of latitude would help my attitude."
“I put my phone in airplane mode, but it’s not flying!"
"The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails."
- William Arthur Ward
"Family Vacation (n.) A time for you to remember why your family never spends any time together."
"If anyone is Christmas shopping for me, I wear a size 7-day Caribbean cruise."