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We just got back from a trip across the south to check out SEC campuses: Miss, Miss St., Ala, Auburn, UGA and SC. Then came back across the north.

After SC, drove to Norfolk to tour the Naval ship yards.

Next day up to Rehoboth Beach Del. to visit friends for 5 days.

Then to DC to visit my Mom.

Next day drive to Antietam / Sharpsberg to visit the Battlefield the on to Shanksville Pa. to spend a few hours at the AA Flight 93 Memorial. Just when you think you're out of tears, this Memorial digs them out again.

We then drove to Canton Ohio for the Pro Football HOF and then on to the Air Force a museum at Wright Pat AFB, which was simply fantastic.

Long day back to DFW as we checked out University of Missouri and University of Arkansas. Missouri was the best campus we visited and Arkansas was the worst by far.

10 day trip.
So, anybody else do a road trip this summer??

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I've driven from Houston to LA and from Dallas to DC. Both were fantastic road trips for different reasons.

People love to complain about driving through Texas but I think the westbound trip to California is really cool. You start off in flatland with lots of vegetation and rainfall. As you progress westward it slowly gets drier and more rugged. Once you pass San Antonio you're officially in the American southwest. You pass the hill country then get into the very sparsely populated parts of the state with mesas and tumbleweeds, essentially stereotypical Texas. Then as you get closer to El Paso you've hit the desert, where you'll be until you get to the Pacific. You have Big Bend, Marfa, Alpine, and a bunch of other cool small towns that all have their own unique charm.

I actually think El Paso is a cool city despite the crap talking people do about it. Very unique for Texas. Then you hit New Mexico and Arizona. I've always thought the desert had a cool unique beauty to it, so I enjoy driving through these states. Especially the huge cactuses in AZ. We hit both Tucson and Phoenix. Then there's the CA inland empire, which feels a lot like old school California with its architecture. Then you hit LA and the temperature drops a lot and you start seeing greenery again.

Dallas to DC starts of pretty boring in TX and AR then starts getting really pretty once you get into central Tennessee. Memphis is worth a stop at least but IMO not that great of a city. Nashville and Knoxville were both great places to stop and look around, and then the Smokies just past Knoxville. Virginia was easily my favorite part of this roadtrip. The mountains were gorgeous and it was really fun stopping in those small historic towns along the way.

Road tripping is fun. I haven't done it in forever.

287/87 pilgrimage to Colorado. As soon as you make one of those turns between Clayton and Raton… boom. Snow covered mountains, 100 miles away. Now you're in the heart of the Comancheria.

This is after 8+ hours of prairie and desert of the llano estacado.

My favorite was the "rock tour" but i was in high school at the time.

Texas to:
meteor crater
grand canyon
southern Utah
Yellowstone/Grand Teton
devils Tower
Mount Rushmore
Texas

Pasadena, TX to Borger, TX 5 times one summer for a construction project, I would set the truck on 90 MPH cruise and just drive

Anchorage, AK to Fairbanks, AK via Hwy 3, Fairbanks to Arctic Circle via Hwy 2 (haul road), Fairbanks back to Anchorage via Delta Junction and Glenallen on Hwy 2 and 4 and 1, Also drove Anchorage to Whittier to the South

Did the ring road around Iceland

Seattle to College Station, but we drove all down the Pacific coast to LA and then across to TX via the Grand Canyon.

2 weeks - Portland to Madras to San Juan island and back to Portland.
2 weeks - Montana to GNP to Yellowstone and back to Montana.
2 weeks - Austin to Grand Canyon and back.
10 days - LA to SF to SD and back to LA.

"And all points between".

As a kid, not counting West Germany or the desert of Saudi Arabia, it would have to be 4 days from Galveston to Mission Viejo and then back to Galveston via San Diego during the summer of 1980 in my dad's 1979 Cadillac Seville at 55 mph with my mother driving because my dad was working in California.

We stopped at The Alamo, Carlsbad Caverns and then spent the summer in Mission Viejo. We did all the SoCal touristy stuff.

We had a CB radio and getting to listen to the truckers talk was great. We saw Smokey and the Bandit II trailers in the theater which made it even better. Breaker Breaker.

i feel like this has been posted several times over the years, and my answer is always the same.

Summer of 2004, I spent 70 days cycling from Austin, TX to Anchorage, AK. TX, NM, AZ, UT, NV, CA, OR, WA, BC, YT, AK.

My home is Fort Stockton so I'm partial to the west and the desert. How anyone can't enjoy the drive from about Junction as far west as they're going is beyond me. Balmorhea, Van Horn, El Paso, Las Cruces, Lordsburg into the Chiricahua Mountiains in SE Arizona is great. To me at least. I live half the time in Spring and half the time in Arizona so I've made that trip a lot.

The OP asked about road trips this year and this doesn't qualify but it was my favorite road trip. Between my freshman and soph years at A&M me and two buddies left Fort Stockton and drove to Farmington, NM, then to West Yellowstone, then Lethbridge, Alberta. Stayed there a few days then down to Glacier National Park, eastern Washington, through Oregon to SF, LA and then finished up with a 3 day stay at Wally Johnson's Fabulous Seaside Resort in San Diego. I assume it was Wally Johnson's, it was seaside but it was anything but fabuluos or a resort. Left there and drove straight through back home to Fort Stockton. Hit Yuma about noon in mid-August in a single cab Ford pickup with an aftermarket AC. I would not have guessed that day that I would fall in love with Arizona.

It took you 8hrs to drive across the Llano Estacado?

pulling our travel trailer... but not really.. More of just the Comancheria starting around Wichita Falls. It is cool being able to see the llano estacado as you're going through Estelline and crossing the prairie dog fork of the Red.

I'm just giving you some hell. I've always loved that trip up from DFW to Colorado as well. Now I live in Amarillo and before that I lived in Dalhart because I liked the area so much.

If you ever get a chance, take a left in Estelline and go through Turkey to Tulia. That is a really pretty drive that really shows the Caprock in all of it's glory.

Another fun fact, the Canadian river is what separates the Caprock from the Great Plains. So once you hit Dumas, you are in the Great Plains.

My favorite is a depressing 7(!!!) years ago with my now wife. Started in Ohio, traveled down I80 to Wyoming, spent time camping at Teton and Yellowstone, went over into idaho for some hot springs, drove to Moab and camped at Arches/Canyonlands, then down through Monument Valley before hitting Grand Canyon. Drove down to Phoenix and spent some time with family. Then traveled east on I10 until I got to Houston, hit up a football game at Kyle, then drove north through Nashville, Louisville, and the Bourbon Trail. Pretty cool month and saw quite a bit of the United States.

Munich, Vaduz, Lucerne, Interlaken, Lauterbrunnen, Montreux, Geneva, Chamonix, Milan, Portofino, Cinque Terre, Venice, Innsbruck, Salzburg, Munich.

Done a lot of them over the years. My favorites off top of my head:

High School Graduation Road Trip: Crew I grew up with left town as soon as we all crossed the stage and drove a Winnebago to Destin and partied there for about 10 days. So much damn fun.

Big Bend: College Station to Big Bend to Boquillas, MX. This was before it was shut down by 9/11 and still very, very rugged. Not that it still isn't but few knew about it back then.

Iceland. You can't really go here without doing some driving but oh what spectacular driving it is.

New Mexico. Santa Fe-Taos-Los Alamos triangle is pretty amazing driving all around.

I've also driven from Texas to California and from Texas to the Smokey Mountains but those were with my parents as a kid.

On the back of my dads Harley when I was 11 to NM and Colorado from Sherman area. 600 plus miles on day 1 to Raton NM. My ass still hurts thinking about that first day it but what I wouldn't give to snap my fingers and be there with him again.

The million $ highway from Durango to ouray on a bike was priceless. The main road in silverton was still dirt/gravel. I remember the camp ground in ouray had endless hot water in the showers and a bench to sit under the water. I bet I sat there for an hour. The campground had a wonderful breakfast buffet cooked and served outdoors. Sitting and eating the in the early morning in august wearing a jacket in the cool mountain air, the sun coming up through the valley. Heaven.

Geneva, Chamonix, Bellagio, Murren, Geneva

Best / Worst - all about perspective. At the time me and my brother were teens, so didn't appreciate it as much as we should have.

Abilene - Carlsbad - Grand Canyon - Zion - Salt Lake - Boise - Portland - Seattle

Once in Seattle with family: Rainier, Northern Coast, Victoria BC

Way back - through Montana to Yellowstone - Bismarck - Rushmore - then kinda blazed through the rest of the way South to home

South Africa trip back in 2015. Travelled around the country for 8 weeks in total. These days we are mostly traveling with the travel companies, not that adventurous anymore. At the moment my wife checks these MakeMyTrip reviews as we are thinking to go to Galapagos for New Year celebration. Anyone have been there? What are your impressions?