
American Road Trips: The Distances Are the Whole Problem
American road trips fail on arithmetic more than anything else, because the country is larger than the itinerary assumes.
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American road trips fail on arithmetic more than anything else, because the country is larger than the itinerary assumes.

The Ring Road is 1,300 kilometres and the week-long version spends most of its time in the car.

The Garden Route is about 300 kilometres, which means the drive is easy and the detours are the trip.

Road trip planning has a sequence, and doing it out of order is why itineraries collapse.

A cross-country drive is mostly transit, and the trips that work accept that rather than pretending otherwise.

France's high-speed rail makes driving pointless between cities and essential everywhere else.

Portugal has motorways with no toll booths at all, which is fine until you realise you have no way to pay.

An Italian road trip's largest unplanned cost is usually a camera fine that arrives six months after you get home.

Discover the beauty of the Great Ocean Road in Australia, a 240-kilometer route along Victoria's south-eastern coast. Enjoy handsome views of the Southern Ocean, lush rainforests, and dramatic limestone cliffs.

The direction you drive California's coast road determines whether you are on the ocean side or the cliff side.

Andalusia's white villages need a car and its cities punish you for bringing one into them.

Some of the best road trips cover under 500 kilometres in total, which changes what a week can be.