Talk:Road trip

Expanding artice
This article should be expanded to give an overview of the whole experience of the road trip. See backpacking for an idea of what I mean. rasblue 20:43, 2 July 2006 (UTC)


 * Absolutely! --Amit 05:56, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

Articles should be very well expanded, I have to write a report on a road trip, and it would be useful to know when they were invented. Or to get some good quips on what they are. -Paintblock

I'm not really up to the task of revising this article, but I suggest two works related to roadtrips by Jack Kerouac that might help flesh out the article: • On the Road, which glamorized Kerouac's on road trip experience in a semi-fictional novel. • "The Americans" a photo book by Swiss expatriate Robert Frank's. Frank criss-crossed the USA by car to create a social portrait of America. The introduction was written by Jack Kerouac.

-Aaron Lampell 01:57, 08 June 2009 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.14.134.130 (talk) 05:55, 8 June 2009 (UTC)

Incorrect Article
This article should be re-written to discuss the concept of Roadtripping as a hobby, and not about a movie genre. A separate article should be written to discuss Road trip movies. I would be willing to re-write this article and create a separate article on the Road Trip as a genre if everyone else is okay about it. Anyone have any comments? Cascadia 06:30, 3 November 2006 (UTC)

I, along with another person, will be rewriting this article over the next couple of days to bring it back on topic. Cascadia 20:01, 4 November 2006 (UTC)

A rewrite of the article is complete. Additional information, formatting, etc. is definately needed, but this is a good start as it is much more on track than the origional article. Thank you to the members of the Great American Roadtrip Forum at roadtripamerica.com for assisting with sources.Cascadia 02:35, 7 November 2006 (UTC)

Road Movies vs. Road Trip
Any information regarding Road Trips as a movie genre should be included on Road movies, and not on Road trip. It is not encyclopedic to have two articles about the same thing, one being of proper title and the other masking itself as an article about Road trips. I have completely rewritten Road trip to be completely about Road trips as a method of travel and leisure, and not about the genre. Cascadia 03:35, 7 November 2006 (UTC)

Appalachian Trail
The Appalachian Trail really should not be included as a sample road trip, as it is, of course, a hiking trail, not a road to drive on. For the southern Appalachians, at least, a better choice would be the combination of the Skyline Drive and the Blue Ridge Parkway.Apace361 (talk) 06:05, 18 January 2008 (UTC)

Dinosaur Comics mention
This article gets poked fun of in the latest Dinosaur Comics : "'It is not known exactly when Road Trips were ‘invented’, but technically they have been around as long as people have had roads to travel and vehicles to travel with.' HEY THERE, THANKS WIKIPEDIA" -- MacAddct &#xF8FF; 1984 (talk &#149; contribs) 15:28, 13 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Yes, and the article's actually full of original research like that. For instance, who came up with the arbitrary 8 classifications? Superm401 - Talk 01:07, 15 March 2008 (UTC)
 * What? That comic contains no such line. 24.141.8.20 (talk) 18:03, 2 February 2010 (UTC)

"Dashboarding"?
Could the individual who added the singularly unhelpful reference (and nonexistent wikilink) to "Dashboarding" be troubled to explain what it means? Cactus Wren (talk) 12:02, 11 July 2010 (UTC)
 * nah ceebs

BS-B-Gone
The article, as i found it, is largely male bovine excrement. A military expedition (Ramses II and, nota bene, Alexander the Great) is not a roadtrip and neither is a pilgrimage. Carl Jung spoke of travel Yes, I actually read the book, not roadtrips and the hindu times is not a RS on that subject. ADAC and ANWB do not exist to facilitate roadtrips, but to assist stranded motorists of all kinds. Kleuske (talk) 10:02, 14 April 2014 (UTC)

History/Culutre Connection to the Midwest United States

 * From anecdotal evidence, then this twitter post/meme by McEwen i was wondering if this was true/why
 * Not really any good sources/me looking around for info much, but i found an infographic and will probably just leave it at that for now (also was an interesting comment suggesting it had to do with the little air infrastructure in the region making it not make much sense etc, but again anecdotal)
 * https://www.cntraveler.com/stories/2014-10-07/american-road-trip-trends-by-region-who-likes-to-drive-the-most
 * https://www.google.com/search?q=do+people+from+the+midwest+go+on+more+road+trips&rlz=1C1GCEA_enUS1029US1029&hl=en-US&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj56__Cjfz6AhVrZTABHU3gBJcQ_AUoAXoECAEQAw&biw=1920&bih=961&dpr=1#imgrc=EW-RVznb51tfuM
 * Page itself seems to show a cropped form of the infographic?

--Eric Lotze (talk) 20:04, 25 October 2022 (UTC)

Deleted section
I deleted the section "Distance and popularity" because it consisted almost entirely of unsourced opinions/original research about the distance one must travel for a journey to qualify as a "road trip", which countries have "more points of interest" than others, et cetera. The only citation in the entire passage was for a claim that "road trips have become loved and revered to the extent that a National Road Trip Day has been established . . . every Friday before Memorial Day." The citation led to a less-than-reliable website that exists only to collate various unofficial "National xyz Day"s; as far as I can tell, "National Road Trip Day" is little more than a marketing campaign by Pilot Flying J that is not actually observed by the general public in any notable way. -Literally Satan (talk) 19:46, 1 February 2024 (UTC)

Could use more specifics on road trips
This is a great subject and one that should be expanded, especially with more specifics about recent road trips in the United States and other countries. I find it interesting about the people who drive through every contiguous state in less than four days and added a paragraph about them. I would like to see records on how fast people have driven major roads in other countries but don't know where to find all that. Then there are people who have spent a year or more driving around North and South America, as well as Europe. If I find more about them with documented sources, I'll add it for what that is worth. Justdoit345 (talk) 01:23, 3 April 2024 (UTC)