“Why do they call it rush hour when nothing moves?”
– Robin Williams
Of all the books in the world, the best stories are found between the pages of a passport.
“Roadtripophobia (n.) The fear of not having any road trips currently booked.“
“How did my driving test go? You could say I mailed it!”
"The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails."
- William Arthur Ward
“A road trip is a way for the whole family to spend time together and annoy each other in interesting new places.”
– Tom Lichtenheld
"I’m getting tired of waking up and not being at the beach."
"We travel, initially, to lose ourselves, and we travel, next to find ourselves."
- Pico Iyer
"How can people my age plan spontaneous trips to Thailand, I can barely afford a spontaneous soft pretzel."
"I love those days when my only decision is whether to go to the beach in the morning or in the afternoon."
“Aerodynamics are for people who can’t build engines.”
– Enzo Ferrari
"Summer vacations are a time when parents realize that teachers are grossly underpaid."
“Money may not buy happiness, but I’d rather cry in a Jaguar than on a bus.”
– Francoise Sagan
"You call it a pandemonium. We call it a family vacation."
"There are two kinds of travel – first class and with children."
– Robert Benchley
“Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go.”
— Truman Capote
“There is nothing safer than flying, it’s crashing that is dangerous.”
- Theo Cowan
“This is the first year I’m not going to Fiji because of COVID-19. Normally, I do not go because I am poor.”
— Brooke Miller
“I love road trips. You get into this Zen rhythm; throw the sense of time out the window.”
– Miriam Toews
"Okay, we’re all like 90% happy and 10% sunburnt."
"There is no unhappiness like the misery of sighting land again after a cheerful, careless voyage."
- Mark Twain
“I had to stop driving my car for a while… the tires got dizzy.”
— Stephen Wright
“That’s why I love road trips, dude. It’s like doing something without actually doing anything.”
– John Green
"Like gum to a shoe, you’re stuck with me and I’m stuck with you."
“You know, somebody actually complimented me on my driving today. They left a little note on the windscreen, it said 'Parking Fine'.”
― Tommy Cooper
“I travel a lot, I hate having my life disrupted by routine.”
– Caskie Stinnett
“A car’s weakest part is the nut holding the steering wheel.”
"I get pretty much all the exercise I need walking down airport concourses carrying bags."
- Guy Clark
“I’m getting used to wearing flip-flops everywhere. It’s a dangerous place to be. Next thing you know, I’m gonna show to a board meeting in sandals.”
“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
"There are only two emotions on a plane: boredom and terror."
- Orson Welles
“Road trips required a couple of things: a well-balanced diet of caffeine, salt, and sugar and an excellent selection of tunes—oh, and directions.”
– Jenn McKinlay
"Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo."
- Al Gore
“If you can walk away from a landing, it’s a good landing. If you can use the aircraft the next day, it’s an outstanding landing.”
- Chuck Yeager
"Everyone’s a little bit crazy and a little bit loud. But everyone’s sharing a generous amount of love."
"Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia. Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated."
– Jean Baudrillard
"Like all bad drivers, he thought he was the best driver in the world."
- Rebecca West
"People drink on cruises so that they think the swaying is normal."
"A change of latitude would help my attitude."
"People complain that there are delays on flights. Delays, really? New York to California in five hours, that used to take 30 years."
- Louis C.K.
"Once the travel bug bites there is no known antitode, and I know that I shall be happily infected until the end of my life."
- Michael Palin
"I haven’t worn these trousers since I bought them. I should definitely pack them for my 3-day vacation. Just in case."
"The devil himself had probably redesigned hell in the light of information he had gained from observing airport layouts."
- Anthony Price
“If you don’t like how I drive, get off the sidewalk.”
"When traveling with someone, take large doses of patience and tolerance with your morning coffee."
– Helen Hayes
"I have been to almost as many places as my luggage."
On Big Ben. “It’s just a big clock? I don’t understand all the hype with this clock. It is literally just a clock. It’s going to be a digital one in thirty years anyway. ”
— Montgomery Smith
"A vacation frequently means that the family goes away for a rest, accompanied by a mother who sees that the others get it."
— Marcelene Cox
"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
"Everyone should believe in something. I believe I should be on the beach drinking Margaritas."