
Route 66: The Road Was Decommissioned and Still Exists
Route 66 is no longer a highway, which means driving it requires deliberately leaving the interstate that replaced it.

Route 66 is no longer a highway, which means driving it requires deliberately leaving the interstate that replaced it.

The Great Ocean Road is sold as a Melbourne day trip and is 600 kilometres of winding coast road.

Scotland's Highland routes run on single-track roads with passing places, and knowing the etiquette is most of the driving.

Norwegian driving involves ferries as ordinary road segments, and the timetable is the route plan.

The best American scenic roads are under 200 kilometres, which means you can drive them slowly in a day.

The Icefields Parkway is a short drive that takes all day, because stopping is the entire purpose of it.

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.

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.

Road trips divide into distance-covering, slow-winding and loop-based, and the three are not interchangeable.