Tips for Packing and Preparing for a Road Trip
While American road trips had a golden age of sorts from the 1950s to the 1970s, thanks to a quickly developing interstate highway system and the automobile becoming a commonplace fixture, there’s perhaps never been a better time to hit the road.
As travel restrictions begin to loosen, many Americans are turning to road trips to scratch their itch of wanderlust and cure their cases of pandemic-induced cabin fever.
In fact, online discount travel agency Priceline conducted a survey that took a deep dive into America’s current resurgence of road trips and found that in the last year, road trips have become so popular that 9 in 10 Americans have taken at least one—and the vast majority (75 percent) took more than four.