75 Road Trip Quotes & Captions To Inspire Your Next Adventure

John Muir Quotes and Captions

1. “Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.” – John Muir

2. “Between every two pine trees there is a door leading to a new way of life.” – John Muir

3. “Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine into trees.” – John Muir

4. “Of all the paths you take in life make sure a few of them are dirty.” – John Muir

5. “How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains! To behold this alone is worth the pains of any excursion a thousand times over.” – John Muir

6. “I only went out for a walk, and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.” – John Muir

7. “Keep close to nature’s heart… and break clear away, once in a while, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.” – John Muir

8. “The clearest way into the universe is through a forest wilderness.” – John Muir

9. “The mountains are calling and I must go.” – John Muir

10. “The snow is melting into music.” – John Muir

11. “This grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never all dried at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor ever rising.” – John Muir

Anonymous Quotes and Captions

12. “Always take the scenic route, you never know what adventures you will find.” – Anonymous

13. “Take the long way home.” – Anonymous

14. “It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.” – Anonymous

15. “It doesn’t matter how old you get, buying snacks for a road trip should always look like an unsupervised 9-year-old was given $100.” – Anonymous

16. “Please understand, I have been waiting to leave ever since I figured out that there were roads willing to take me anywhere I wanted to go.” – Anonymous

17. “I want to go on a road trip. Just you and me. The highway, the radio, the blue sky, the back roads, and windows down. We’ll talk about everything and nothing. We’ll sing our hearts out, and we’ll make memories we’ll never forget. Just you and me.” – Anonymous

18. “The road is hard, and you have to get accustomed to it.” – Anonymous

19. “My life is full of mistakes. They’re like pebbles that make a good road.” – Anonymous

20. “Making memories one road trip at a time.” – Anonymous

21. “Difficult roads often lead to beautiful destinations.” – Anonymous

22. “Happiness is a road trip with a good playlist.” – Anonymous

23. “Sometimes you find yourself in the middle of nowhere, and sometimes in the middle of nowhere, you find yourself.” – Anonymous

24. “Sometimes all you need is a great friend and a full tank of gas.” – Anonymous

25. “Road trips aren’t measured by mile markers, but by moments.” – Anonymous

Famous Author Quotes and Captions

26. “All he needed was a wheel in his hand and four on the road.” – Jack Kerouac

27. “That’s why I love road trips, dude. It’s like doing something without actually doing anything.” – John Green

28. “Only those who risk going too far can possible find out how far they can go.” – T.S Eliot

29. “Two roads diverged in a wood, and I – I took the one less traveled by.” – Robert Frost

30. “I have found out that there ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.” – Mark Twain

31. “A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless.” – John Steinbeck

32. “People don’t take trips, trips take people.” – John Steinbeck

33. “Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.” – Ernest Hemingway

34. “We are all travelers in the wilderness of the world and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.” – Robert Louis Stevenson

35. “A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.” – John Steinbeck

36. “To move, to breathe, to fly, to float, to gain all while you give, to roam the roads of lands remote, to travel is to live.” – Hans Christian Andersen

37. “Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

38. “You can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.” – Stephen King

39. “Still, round the corner, there may wait, a new road or a secret gate.” – J. R. R. Tolkien

40. “You have brains in your head, You have feet in your shoes, You can steer yourself any direction you choose.” – Dr Seuss

41. “If you don’t know where you are going, any road will get you there.” – Lewis Carroll

42. “It’s a road trip! It’s about adventure!…It’s not like we have somewhere to go.” – John Green

43. “So shut up, live, travel, adventure, bless and don’t be sorry.” – Jack Kerouac

44. “Afoot and light-hearted I take to the open road, healthy, free, the world before me, the long brown path before me leading wherever I choose.” – Walt Whitman

45. “Not all those who wander are lost.” – J.R.R. Tolkien

46. “Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road.” – Jack Kerouac

47. “It’s not the destination, it’s the journey.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

48. “I don’t know where I’m going but I’m on my way.” -Carl Sandberg

49. “For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.” – Robert Louis Stevenson

50. “I haven’t been everywhere but it’s on my list.” – Susan Sontag

Singer and Musician Quotes and Lyrics

51. “If you make the mistake of looking back too much, you aren’t focused enough on the road in front of you.” – Brad Paisley

52. “I don’t know where I’m going from here but I promise it won’t be boring.” – David Bowie

53. “Life is a highway, I want to ride it all night long.” – Tom Cochrane

54. “Map out your future – but do it in pencil. The road ahead is as long as you make it. Make it worth the trip.” – Jon Bon Jovi

55. “You can’t find the right roads when the streets are paved.” – Bob Marley

56. “You make me wanna roll my windows down and cruise.” – Florida Georgia Line

57. “Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you’re riding through the ruts, don’t complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief, and jealousy. Don’t bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake up and live!” – Bob Marley

Comedian Quotes

58. “Kilometers are shorter than miles. Save gas, take your next trip in kilometers.” – George Carlin

59. “In 1903 the Wright brothers invented airplanes, because in 1902 they took a road trip across the country with their family.” – Bill Engvall

60. “Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason.” – Jerry Seinfeld

Actor and Movie Quotes

61. “The journey is part of the experience – an expression of the seriousness of one’s intent. One doesn’t take the A train to Mecca.” – Anthony Bourdain

62. “Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But that’s okay. The journey changes you; it should change you.” – Anthony Bourdain

63. “Just grab a friend and take a ride, together upon the open road.” – A Goofy Movie

Religious Leader and Philosopher Quotes

64. “The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.” – St Augustine

65. “Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before.” – Dalai Lama

66. “The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” – Mao Tzu

67. “It is better to travel well than to arrive.” – Buddha

68. “Take only memories, leave only footprints.” – Chief Seattle

69. “No road is long with good company.” – Turkish Proverb

70. “Roads were made for journeys, not destinations.” – Confucius

Quotes From Other Notable Figures

71. “In life, it’s not where you go, it’s who you travel with.” – Charles M. Schultz

72. “The only impossible journey is the one you never begin.” – Tony Robbins

73. “If you come to a fork in the road, take it.” – Yogi Berra

74. “A bend in the road, is not the end of the road…unless you fail to make the turn.” – Helen Keller

75. “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.” – Helen Keller

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