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Road Trip Log Book: Road Trip Log Book - Keep Track of All Your Fun Adventures on the Road - Brown Faux Leather Cover Paperback – April 5, 2021

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The best journeys are worth recording and remembering!

This Road Trip Log Book is the perfect tool to record all the important details for over 100 destinations. Each full page spread allows plenty of space to write in all the details of your trips from starting point to destination, as well as your adventures along the way. Every page provides space for you to note the date, time, weather, departing from, odometer reading, total miles, route taken, pit stops and any of your own notes.

Don’t let another road trip adventure fade in your memory. Create treasured memories that will last a lifetime!

Great gift for adults and kids going on summer vacation road trips, whether camping or in an RV!

• Durable, Soft-Cover with Beautiful Cover Design
• Compact 6" x 9" - Easy to Bring on the Go
• 107 Pages - Capture all the important details for over 100 destinations

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• Print length 107 pages
• Language English
• Publication date April 5, 2021
• Dimensions 6 x 0.25 x 9 inches
• ISBN-13 979-8730554801
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• Publisher ‏ : ‎ Independently published (April 5, 2021)
• Language ‏ : ‎ English
• Paperback ‏ : ‎ 107 pages
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 979-8730554801
• Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 5.9 ounces
• Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.25 x 9 inches
• #1,130 in Road Travel Reference
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21 BEST road trip travel Log Books (Motorhome/ Caravan Journals)

If you enjoy recording or journalling your road trips, you will LOVE these road trip journals/ travel log books- perfect for motorhome, campervan, RV, caravan or any other road tripper. Create beautiful memories of your journeys to enjoy for years to come.

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Travel Log Books

I’m not a scrapbooker. Or a diary-writer.

I try SO HARD and I dutifully buy a new diary every single year… and then forget to write in it until August. Heck, I’ve even tried one of those ‘one line a day’ diaries… still nada.

But a road trip travel logbook is something else…

Why Write a Road Trip Log Book?

Before motorhomes, we lived on boats for 15 years. Writing a log book every time we went sailing was essential.

It was part legal document, part way of making sure we’d checked the tides. Writing the journal was just one of the tasks we had to do, both before we set off and during the trip. It became habit.

And those logbooks are GOLD.

Even now, years later, we love reading through them, remembering the funny/ foolish/ embarrassing things we did. It’s the best keepsake we could ever have , (especially the mini arguments we had, where one of us wrote a silly comment in the log, so the other replied… and we filled up 3 pages with utter nonsense!)

That’s EXACTLY why a motorhome/ caravan logbook is so essential- it’s a living record of your adventures, created AS they happen… not 5 years later when you’re trying to remember.

If you travel ANYWHERE by road (for adventures, not just the morning commute), then we highly recommend you treat yourself to a travel log book or road trip journal and start recording the trips.

It doesn’t matter whether you travel by motorhome, campervan, RV, caravan or anything else- you’ll really appreciate these travel journals (or diaries, if you prefer) in years to come.

Don’t forget, even if you’re not planning a motorhome, RV or road trip yourself, these make the BEST presents.

The BEST Road Trip Journal & Travel Logbook

We travel a LOT with our motorhome. But we struggled to find a decent road trip journal/ logbook which would help us record our trips.

So we created one!

This is perfect for motorhome, campervan & caravan owners, but also anyone who enjoys road trips. Inside, there are pages for recording your trips, where you stayed and what the journey was like, but also checklists, things to remember and useful guides for cleaning and winter shutdown.

It’s a one-stop guide for motorhome and van life owners everywhere.

You can find out more about our exclusive Road Trip logbook HERE

Travel Log Books & Journals for Any Adventure

These beautiful travel logbooks and journals make wonderful gifts for couples, or a perfect gift for a friend going travelling.

They work for UK, USA, Canada or anywhere else you’re planning to go!

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Road Trip Log Books & Motorhome Journals

Here are some of our very favourite road trip travel logbooks and motorhome journals. They make wonderful gifts for motorhome owners , or a little treat for yourself. (Sssshh, I won’t tell!)

Some of them are formatted pages inside, and some are blank notebooks for you to add your own personality too, so please do check carefully to make sure you get the type you want.

Motorhome RV log books and travel diaries

Campervan logbooks & travel journals

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Caravan Log Books and Camping Journals

Got a caravan? Love camping? Here are some travel logbooks you’ll LOVE to complete:

Best Children’s Road Trip Logbooks

Helping a child to record their trip is a wonderful idea. It helps them to express themselves, be more thoughtful and try to remember things which happened. Keep it simple and fun, and it will be an exercise they enjoy for many years to come.

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A modern diary for an unforgettable collection of travel experiences! The perfect travel accessory - also as a gift!

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• Size 6"x 9"
• 120 Pages with Beautiful Design
• Gift Idea for Travel and Camping Lovers
• Print length 120 pages
• Language English
• Publication date Aug. 9 2021
• Dimensions 15.24 x 0.71 x 22.86 cm
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• Paperback ‏ : ‎ 120 pages
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 979-8453473748
• Item weight ‏ : ‎ 191 g
• Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 15.24 x 0.71 x 22.86 cm
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20 Road Trip Journals for Adults and Kids

Document your adventures by using road trip journals to write down the details and events that happen along the way.

If you’re traveling with kids, activities should be an item on your family road trip supplies packing list! Travel journals and activity books will help keep them entertained and hopefully avoid the constant “Are we there yet?” question.

This list of journals includes some where you only write about the experiences. And there are other books with ready-made prompts to fill in the dates, location, and list of things they did.

Check out these 20 journals for road trips to help adults and kids pass the time while traveling in the car!

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Toys and accessories for family road trips.

When determining the family road trip items to pack for your next vacation, keeping the kids entertained is a big deal! Here are a few more accessories and travel toys lists we’ve created you might find helpful:

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Road Trip Journals

My Road Trip Journal with a Kraft Hard Cover

Adventures, My Road Trip Journal, is formatted with prompts to keep track of your adventures on the road. Prompts include: Weather, departing from, destination, route, sights, highlights, pit stops, experiences, miles/gas/odometer information, places to remember for next time. The backside of each page includes lines for notes. 

Made of Recycled Materials, 7.5"x 9"

Road Trip Passport Journal — Pocket-sized Travel Book

The Road Trip Passport is a 48-page pocket-sized journal that includes 20 entry pages to record meaningful details from each road trip taken, as well as 8 bonus pages that include checklists, bucket lists, and other fun activities and information. Each entry page is accompanied by a blank page for notes, memories, or affixing mementos like photos or receipts.

Pocket-sized travel book is 5.5 x 3.5 x 0.25 inches

Road Trip Travel Journal with Prompts

This large 8x10 size has a blank page on one side for sketching, photos, doodles, maps and brochures... and a prompted page on the other side to capture events, dates, places, best things of the day, ratings and highlights.

Let's Go See All 50! Visiting The 50 States Journal with a Kraft Hard Cover

Journal includes individual state maps and writing prompts to help you track your journeys across all 50 states. Each state is represented with a map and lined page with prompts, including: Purpose of visit, places visited, what I enjoyed the most, what I/we found most interesting, and next trip here I would like to. Additional pages for each state include fun facts and lined space for additional notes. 

Wander Always Travel Journal For Women

Travel notebook planner contains space for you to write down your to do lists for the day, track your expenses on the go, journal on your experience and travel thoughts. In every travel journal, there are 5 pages for every trip to use as you wish, you can attach your photos and postcards, write down fun facts and generally describe your experience.

8.5 x 6.2 x 0.6 inches

And so the Adventure Begins Journal

• Ruled Pages - Journal - with date space: for your daily notes
• Graph and Blank Pages - take notes, draw, doodle or glue pictures, souvenirs etc.
• Ruled pages divided in halves - list every traveler’s favorite moments
• Final section for Addresses, to do list, restaurants, shopping, new contacts etc.
• Soft Cover, light and portable size 6”x9”

Page-A-Day Artisan Travel Journal

• Each page provides space for you to note the Date, Location, Weather, and jot down your own notes.
• A ribbon bookmark keeps your place.
• An elastic closure secures your writing.
• Tuck maps, tickets, and other flat travel mementos within the inside back cover pocket.
• Measures 5'' wide x 7'' high.

Wherever You Go, Go With All Your Heart Artisan Journal

• 176 writing pages provide plenty of space for personal reflection, creative writing, sketching, or jotting down favorite quotations or poems.
• Tuck notes, mementos, and more into the back cover pocket, which expands for ease of access.
• Journal measures 5'' wide x 7'' high.

Custom Travel Journal and Road trip planner

• 5 1/4" x 8 1/4" x 3/4" thick
• 112 lined pages
• Black satin ribbon book mark
• Personalized leatherette journal: Leatherette offers the look and feel of genuine leather for a fraction of the price! Easy to maintain and clean. Engraving will not wear off, stain resistant to finger oils and regular wear and tear.

Personalized Road Trip Journal

• Sturdy & Durable Hardcover Journal

• 5.75 x 8 inch

• 75 lined single pages (150 pages front and back)

• Luxurious Soft-Touch Matte Laminate Finish

Personalized Spiral Road Trip Journal

* Hand Made with care

* Journal is 5.5" W x 8.5" L

* 50 sheets (100 front and back) of 24lb paper

* Cover is made from heavy weight Kraft paper

* Back is a thicker sturdy chipboard

* Double wire spiral bound

Road Trip Log Book: Road Trip Journal With Prompts

• 6 x 9 Inches
• Matte Cover
• This Road Trip Log Book is the perfect way to document and share your adventures on the road.

Not All Who Wander Are Lost - Road Trip Journal

This unique pocketbook not only keeps track of all your road trip essentials (logs, notes and pictures/photos/sketch), but also serves as a great place to jot down your thoughts about amazing vistas or memorable stops along the way.

My Day by Day Road Trip Journal

• 25 Day Sheets: Two-sided day sheets provide prompts to help you build strong memories!
• 10 Lined Pages: To record more complex experiences and thoughts while traveling.
• 5 Imprint Pages: To record larger imprints!

Let's Go On A Road Trip Log Book

This let's go on a road trip log book has the perfect places for you to record all the important information that you need to keep track of your road trip experience.

Road Trip Journals for Kids

The Ultimate Road Trip Journal for Kids

• Space for 4 trips—Divided into 4 different sections, each created to record one trip, this journal will keep kids entertained again and again.
• Games galore—From fill-in-the-blanks about the trip to crossword puzzles, kids will discover all sorts of ways to stay entertained.
• Free space—Blank pages give kids plenty of room to express themselves as they write or draw whatever they want.

Road Trip Journal for Kids:

This awesome travel journal encourages kids to record their vacation memories. There is space to write, reflect, collage, draw and color. It includes writing prompts for 10 trips with additional extra pages for reflection and pictures. 

Road Trip Journal For Kids

• Date, Traveling With, Weather Conditions, From/to.
• Distance, Travel Time.
• Traffic Level
• Travel Route (Stops & Milestones - Time of arrival - Highlights & Notes).
• Dining Experiences (Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, Snacks).

Road Trip! Kid’s Travel Journal

Log your activities and notes for up to 26 travel destinations. There are four pages allotted per destination (one page of guided prompts, one lined page for journaling, and two blank pages for doodles or mementos/photos) plus a table of contents to fill in. It is just the right size (8.5 inches square) to carry along with you on-the-go. It is recommended for ages 7-10 with the help of a grown-up or older sibling and ages 11 and up to do independently.

Road Trip Journal for Teens

A prompted page on the other side to capture events, dates, places, best things of the day, ratings and highlights. Size: 7"x10" big enough for your writing and small enough to take with you

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Best RV Logbook (Our 5 Top Picks)

Published on August 24th, 2020 by Ray & Tammy Roman This post was updated on July 21st, 2023

Ever wish you could go back in time and relive a camping trip? Do you want to remember notable parts of your trips and can’t rely on memory alone?

Consider investing in a travel journal or RV logbook! Then you can simply relax in a nice RV camping chair and write about your awesome adventures.

The best RV logbook is the Ultimate RV Logbook . We choose it because not only does it have plenty of space for journaling your RV adventures, but it also has pages for logging your RV maintenance.

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With this, you’ll be able to record each journey with the details of the location of the campsite, activities, discoveries, and even notes of what you wish you would have brought or known to prepare for the next trip.

Record the pros and cons of each, including whether it was a full or partial hookup or the amenities included at the site.

Also, you’ll want to leave a description of your overall experience, especially for looking back to remember which was the most fun or fitting to what you want to expect on the next trip.

Whether for the enjoyment of journaling or for the necessity of logging for maintenance or accessibility reasons, logbooks are a great idea for those who travel through camping.

If you are looking for the best RV logbook, the ones below are my recommended picks.

The Ultimate RV Logbook

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• English (Publication Language)

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Having the ultimate in the name describes the amount of research that went into this journal. The detailed guides inside have more than the usual prompts seen in these types of logs.

Similar to the competition, this paperback book will include areas to log your stay and other campsite information. What makes it unique is also having a section to record all of the maintenance services, including mileage and dates for when you need to refer back to, and it also allows you to sort the book by region or state.

As you travel, this 7.4” x 9.7” journal will be easy to pack and carry along. You’ll find 120 pages in this version, which may be filled up faster since most logbooks usually have a bit more.

Since this logbook is so detailed, the fill-in pages will be lengthy, making the text quite small.

Adventure is Calling RV Logbook

• Willow, Enchanted (Author)

This paperback journal includes 160 pages for logging and features detailed forms throughout to record campground information and routes taken.

In addition, the forms have prompts for noting the weather and even the starting and ending mileage of the trip. You’ll notice this book is a great size, being 7” x 10” and easy to keep track of and throw in your bag.

Many buyers not only purchase this for themselves but mention what a great gift idea it is as well. The design is simple and suitable for anyone and everyone.

A painting of a vintage-styled camper in the mountains will be found on the cover with the quote, “Adventure is Calling.” This seller also has other cover designs if you want to browse other options with the same interior aspects.

Being a best seller compared to its competitors, most reviews show no issues with their purchase, other than the occasional concern of it being paperback and having a page flapping upward instead of remaining in the original condition.

The Camping Logbook

• Hardcover Book
• Inc. Peter Pauper Press (Author)

The Camping Log Book is perfect for recording your adventures; it even says it on the cover! This cover has great appeal, with a flannel-type design, which incorporates the camping vibe.

Something that makes this journal different is a back cover pocket to store business cards, maps, receipts, or other miscellaneous items. Also featured is an elastic band attached to the back cover to hold the journal in place, which is handy since there will be loose items in the pocket.

Within this 6 ¼” x 8 ¼” hardcover journal, you’ll have 160 pages with fill-ins to jot down amenities, attractions, and other notable campsite information.

This logbook, in particular, has several sections for different trips, so if you need more than just a few pages to record your adventure, this may not be a suitable purchase. However, a few pages can be used well if you don’t plan on using many for picture

Family Camping Journal

• Notebooks, Cute (Author)

The Family Camping Journal will differ from the usual “logging” type. This journal will be more like actual journaling, with its prompts being exactly that: prompts. For example, one prompt may start with something like, “Today we did…” or “Next time, I’ll be sure to…”.

The 8.5” x 11” softcover book is a bit on the larger side but has just as much writing room as others within the 126 pages. It will still include a few lines to record campsite information but is more focussed on recording the memories.

The design on the cover features words commonly used while traveling in an RV, such as campfire, nature, and the phrase, “gone fishing.”

Although many customers reviewed it with positive feedback, some did wish the prewritten prompts either weren’t included or just had less to include more of their ideas.

RV Logbook Camping Journal

• Co, Happy Eden (Author)

The RV Logbook Camping Journal is going to be great for having a checklist to remember important information for when you travel.

This style will suit anyone since it showcases a simple flannel vibe or buffalo check cover. It is similar to a composition notebook with its 6” x 9” premium matte soft cover. One hundred and one pages are included, with several checklist pages for each trip taken and the extra pages in between for notes.

The checklist will incorporate the campsite information section similar to the competitions. However, the checklist will list many things you may not initially think of to record.

Some examples are hiking trails, being pet friendly, and the type of pavement. Although this may be the perfect camping journal, keep in mind that it doesn’t have nearly as many pages as others, so it may be more suitable for those who don’t dedicate as much time to travel.

RV Logbook Template

If you would rather not buy a journal and just want to print out individual maintenance pages when needed, you can download a template here . It is a simple template, but it does the job just fine to help keep track of your RV maintenance .

Summary of Best RV Logbook

Being able to reflect on your RV adventures is a great feeling. Sharing them with family and friends will surely bring back awesome memories. A quality RV logbook to document your RV travels makes it easy to pass on these adventures to your children and grandkids.

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An apocryphal quote floating around dictates that all great literature is either a man going on a journey or a stranger coming to town. Leaving aside the limited thinking evident in this quote — what about the great literature where an animal goes on a journey??? — I am inclined to agree with one part of it. Road trip books make for some of the best literature around. The setting provides so much opportunity for discovery: of landscapes, fellow travelers, and of characters’ true selves. Traveling inevitably creates unforeseen problems to solve and prompts vulnerability for characters out of their element. Road trip books typically have a goal, even if the real treasure ends up being the friends made along the way.

I wanted to dig a little deeper than some of the obvious standards, like On the Road or Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas . I’ve toured the world of books by car, picking roadside stops among fiction and nonfiction, middle grade books and historical romance novels. Many people think of road trip books as a distinctly American genre, so I wanted to challenge that notion as well. In the end, I have a very special vacation slideshow to share with you, if I do say so myself. 

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A dual timeline is one of my favorite formats for a novel, so one with a road trip woven in is sure to catch my attention. This novel alternates between 1968 and 1928. In the latter timeline, audacious Aunt Daisy is rescuing her pregnant niece, Frankie, from her abusive marriage by escaping along Route 66. Meanwhile, we follow young Daisy in 1928 Hollywood, chasing her journalism dreams by writing for Black-owned papers. This compelling story is ideal for anyone who enjoys a family saga steeped in Black history.

How Moon Fuentez Fell in Love with the Universe by Raquel Vasquez Gilliland

A YA romance road trip story that takes place on an influencer tour bus? Yes. Moon Fuentes is in the shadow of her famous twin sister, but agrees to sling merch for her over a summer. The forced proximity with her new nemesis, Santiago, blooms into something unexpected in this gorgeous book tinged with magical realism.

The Unlikely Adventures of the Shergill Sisters by Balli Kaur Jaswal

This book highlights the ways religious pilgrimage intersects with the road trip format. Following three sisters who’ve drifted apart in adulthood, the novel reunites them in India. There they are carrying out their mother’s last wish to carry out her final rites at the ​​Golden Temple in Amritsar. This poignant novel navigates the complexities of tradition and modernity for the three British-born women while providing them with unexpected moments of discovery that are by turns humorous and heartbreaking.

In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse by Joseph M. Marshall III

The sad truth is that most road trip books set in America forget whose land they’re driving through. This heartwarming novel, however, provides readers an education in Indigenous history as the main character, Jimmy McClean, gets a lesson in his Lakota roots from his grandfather. Their travels bring them to sites relevant to the life of Tasunke Witko, better known as Crazy Horse.

A Week to Be Wicked by Tessa Dare

This might be my desert island romance novel. Minerva and Colin’s journey from Spindle Cove to Scotland, with Minerva’s fossil in tow, is the very best in historical road trip romance. It’s a nerdy woman meets charming rake story, and even writing this little blurb makes me sure it’s time for another reread. The entire Spindle Cove series is top tier romance, but it’s perfectly fine to start with this one.

Are You Listening? by Tillie Walden

Road trip books do turn up among graphic novels as well. Are You Listening? chronicles the journey across West Texas for Lou and Bea, two women struggling with grief and trauma. There’s a touch of magic in this book, represented by a cat who joins the trip. This is a demonstration of the opportunities for connection and real listening provided by a long, lonely road.

Getting Mother’s Body by Suzan-Lori Parks

I love when novels can provide two opposing characters with equally compelling motivations. When a letter arrives notifying Billy Beede, poor and pregnant, that a supermarket is going in where her mother’s body is currently resting, Billy takes action. She needs to find out whether Willa Mae Beede really was buried with a fortune’s worth of gems. Meanwhile, Dill Smiles, Willa’s love, wants to keep her in the ground. It’s a twist on William Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying that deeply examines desire, need, and greed.

All My Mother’s Lovers by Ilana Masad

While road trips are one of my favorite settings for books, characters discovering they never really knew someone close to them is one of my favorite plots. So All My Mother’s Lovers is right in my wheelhouse. In it, Maggie hand delivers letters on behalf of her suddenly deceased mother. The recipients of these letters upturn everything Maggie thought she knew about her family. This story’s meditation on grief, identity, and family is powerful and bittersweet.

The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolaño

There is a simple way to describe the road trip in this novel. Two poets in Mexico City, ​​Arturo Belano and Ulises Lima, travel to the desert to find another poet who has vanished. But that simple goal turns into a much more complex story that tracks Belano and Lima’s lives 20 years later. This novel, jam-packed with characters and ideas, is the ideal book for when you want a challenging book whose impact will travel with you through the decades.

Somewhere in the Darkness by Walter Dean Myers

Walter Dean Myers knew that kids deserve stories with real complexity, filled with believable characters and symbolism younger readers can grasp. Somewhere in the Darkness features the cross-country trip of 14-year-old Jimmy and his father Crab. Crab’s on the run from the law, but he’s seeking the man who can exonerate him. The road trip does not magically fix their troubled relationship, but it shows how understanding can blossom into forgiveness.

Nevada by Imogen Binnie (June 7)

As the old saw says, wherever you go, there you are. This is true for Maria Griffiths, a trans woman living in Brooklyn. When she feels like her life is falling apart, she steals her ex’s car and heads west. When she meets someone at a pivotal moment in their life, she finally realizes what she’s avoiding. This is a book that resonates with many trans readers for its honest depiction of the experiences, emotions, and thought patterns of its trans main character. Likewise, cis people can benefit from reading such a nuanced character study. 

Love Is an Ex-Country by Randa Jarrar

Among nonfiction road trip books, Love Is an Ex-Country is vital for showing how travel in the United States functions very differently depending on what you look like. Jarrar is a fat, queer, Muslim, Arab American who recounts her trip from California to Connecticut in 2016. She encounters hostility, but as a victim of abuse as well as online threats against her life, she knows well how survival mode functions. It’s a brazen book that doles out plentiful laughs along with copious tears.

Night Hawk by Beverly Jenkins

One of the great things about Beverly Jenkins’s bibliography is that so many readers have different favorite books. Another of the great things about her work is that characters connect across series and time periods. So once you read Night Hawk , the historical romance in which bounty hunter Ian Vance is tasked with bringing sassy Maggie Freeman to justice, you’ll have to read everything else she’s ever written.

The Aeneid by Virgil

If it’s possible to underappreciate a classic, I dare say The Aeneid has met this fate. Retellings and adaptations of Homer’s epic poems abound. I say The Aeneid is due for such a treatment! The tale of Aeneas follows his journeys from the fall of Troy until he winds up in Italy, the ancestor of Romans. I love a good journey to the underworld, and The Aeneid has an especially heartbreaking one.

The New Life by Orhan Pamuk

Books about books! I can never get enough. Nobel Prize winner Orhan Pamuk’s entry in the road trip canon chronicles the journey of Osman. He becomes enchanted by a novel and sets out to create for himself the life it promises. Reading this, you’ll wonder whether Osman has lost his grip on reality while you vicariously experience his travel from Istanbul to the Anatolian steppes.

Assassination Vacation by Sarah Vowell

The stories of the assassinations of U.S. presidents are so much wilder than what I was ever taught in school. Sarah Vowell has an incredible knack for storytelling and inspiring her readers to take an interest in the rich details in history. She uncovers fascinating stories wherever she goes. Because of reading her books, I find myself pausing to read the signs whenever I come across a historic place in my travels, a habit I have found deeply enriching.

Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward

Jesmyn Ward’s novel, at its essence a road trip Leonie takes with her children to reunite with their father, just released from the Mississippi State Penitentiary, is a true southern gothic Odyssey. This is a road trip book that nods to hallowed literature while investigating the claustrophobia that can accompany being enclosed in a car. Cars can be haunted houses, too.

Girls on the Verge by Sharon Biggs Waller

While many road trips are undertaken for fun, plenty come out of brutal necessity. Girls on the Verge follows Camille, who is pregnant in Texas and needs an abortion. When her best friend disagrees with her decision to end the pregnancy, she reaches out to a near-stranger for a ride. Then her friend has a change of heart, and the three end up in the car together on a journey demonstrating the lengths pregnant people have to go to to have control over their bodies.

Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli

Here’s an ambitious and multi-media road trip book. Following a family traveling to the Southwest to learn more about Apache history, their story becomes embroiled with those of refugees at the U.S.-Mexico border. If you’re looking for a novel that is both incredibly daring while remaining true to its road trip roots, this one is timely and thought-provoking.

The Travelling Cat Chronicles by Hiro Arikawa

I’m sure I’m not the only one who loves books about animal journeys, as I mentioned up top. The Incredible Journey hit me at a very formative time. The Travelling Cat Chronicles feature a man named Satoru and his adopted stray, Nana, traveling around Japan in a silver van to visit some friends. You will not be surprised to find that the journey ends up having deeper meaning, as journeys always do. Yes this book does feature the cat’s perspective and — spoiler alert — yes, the book does follow to the end of the cat’s long and happy life.

I come by my love of road trips honestly. As a kid, all of my travel was by car, and I’ve driven in 48 of 50 states — I’m coming for you, Wisconsin and North Dakota! I’m even planning a couple of road trips for this summer. If you, like me, truly love a road trip, you’ll want even more suggestions, I’m sure. We’ve got thought-provoking and feel-good road trip books . And if you need an audiobook while you’re on a trip , pass me that aux, we’ve got some listening to do. Let’s hit the road.

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Travel around the world with the best road trip books. These fiction and nonfiction books about road trips are sure to inspire your next adventure.

If you love jumping into the car, hopping on a road bike, and revving your motorcycle’s engine to see the world, this reading list is for you.

Drive or ride across the United States, Brazil, Iran, and Scotland on journeys of self-discovery. Meet unique and life-changing people.

Maybe you’ll find a new lease on life and answer some pressing questions. Or, maybe you’ll be left with even more reflections that are bigger than us.

Plus, uncover the best books about road trips with themes of finding love, reuniting families, and examining capitalism and corruption.

Many of these road trip novels will make you laugh aloud. Others will invoke nostalgia — Are we there yet?! — or make you hungry for the most mouthwatering croissant in town.

So, what are the best books about road trips to inspire and spark your own traveling adventure?

While ‘best’ is subjective, these are the top classic, LGBTQ+, fiction, memoirs, travelogues, and nonfiction road trip books that we and our contributing writers recommend.

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22 Best Road Trip Books

By Tori Curran with additions from Christine

On the Road by Jack Kerouac

What has since become an American classic and pillar of beatnik culture, On the Road was one of the first adventure books about road trips and searching for meaning on the open road.

In fact, it’s one of the most iconic books to come from the 1950s .

Inspired by Kerouac’s own cross-country road trips with Neal Cassidy, this classic chronicles the adventures of Sal Paradise and Dean Moriarty, along with their free-spiritedness and naïveté.

Follow their quest for revelation from Manhattan, to Denver, Texas, Mexico, and beyond.

Set against the backdrop of drugs, jazz, and poetry, On the Road represents the American dream, home, and the quest for true freedom and experience.

On the Road is a great road trip novel for those wishing to read across America . Read On the Road : Amazon | Goodreads

The Road Trip by Beth O’Leary

Dylan and Addie fell in love four years ago in Provence, where Dylan was staying with his friend Cherry and Addie was working as a caretaker. Though their relationship ended two years ago, they haven’t spoken.

On the day before Cherry’s wedding, Dylan and Addie’s paths literally crash. Dylan wrecks his car by slamming right into the back of Addie’s.

Along with Dylan’s best friend, Addie’s sister, and a random guy they met on Facebook who needed a ride to the wedding, they set off to Scotland in a mini cooper for the wedding.

O’Leary seamlessly marries the awkwardness of the ex-lovers forced to spend time together trope with deeper themes of depression, heartbreak, and forgiveness.

Alternating between Dylan and Addie’s perspectives, and the past and present, each will be forced to come to terms with the choices that ended their relationship, and if it is truly what they wanted.

A summer 2021 book release, if you are looking for newer road trip novels, O’Leary’s The Road Trip will deliver. Read The Road Trip : Amazon | Goodreads

Mariam Sharma Hits the Road by Sheba Karim

Follow three Pakistani-American teenagers, each with their own burdens, across the country on a healing and transformative road trip.

Mariam, who recently ghosted her boyfriend, and Umar, struggling with being queer and religious, concoct a plan to rescue Ghaz. She is being punished by her parents for appearing in a billboard underwear ad.

What better escape plan than a road trip down to New Orleans?

With other friendship-centered road trip books being full of humor and antics, Karim doesn’t shy away from handling issues like anti-Muslim rhetoric, confederate propaganda, racist and anti-gay commentary, and parental shame that many experience across the US.

In fact, the author reminds us all that, quite often, the family you create is just as important as the one you were given. Read Mariam Sharma Hits the Road : Amazon | Goodreads

The Wangs vs. the World by Jade Chang

The Wangs vs. the World is a humorous and heartwarming riches to rags trope and one of the road trip novels perfect for fans of Crazy Rich Asians .

Successful immigrant businessman Charles Wang loses his entire cosmetics empire amidst a financial crisis.

Forced to pull two of his children from boarding school and college he can’t afford, they set off from Bel-Air in their only car not repossessed.

Along with their materialistic stepmother, the family heads for upstate New York where the eldest daughter lives on a farm retreat.

Chang ponders on what it means to belong in capitalist America, especially as an immigrant, and begs the question: is money really what makes us successful?

Travel from California to New York with these reading lists . Read The Wangs vs. the World : Amazon | Goodreads

Places We’ve Never Been by Kasie West

Get ready for an upcoming contemporary YA road trip novel from popular teen author, Kasie West, set to publish at the end of May 2022 .

It’s been years since Norah has seen her childhood best friend Skyler. Their childhood friendship has since been reduced to liking one another’s social media posts.

Eager to reconnect with Skyler, Norah is excited about the RV trip the families have planned together. But when she sees Skyler, it seems like he’d rather be anywhere else.

What’s left of the friendship heads south.

A summer on the open road, however, marks the potential for new beginnings. Can their friendship blossom into something more, or should they close the chapter on one another forever? Read Places We’ve Never Been : Amazon | Goodreads

Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli

Departing from the other humorous and quirky road trip novels, Lost Children Archive is a visceral story of a family road trip that collides with the immigration crisis at the southwest border.

A mother, father, and their two children set out from New York, where they were working on a documentary project, to Apacheria, Arizona, where the Apaches once called home.

A palpable rift between the parents grows clear, while the family road trips to music, plays games, and hears news of migrant children being detained at the border over the radio.

Both crises eventually intersect in a story of justice, equality, and humanity. Read Lost Children Archive : Amazon | Goodreads

Rules of the Road by Joan Bauer

Popular YA author Joan Bauer takes readers on an open road adventure, as we discover the rules of the road, and of life.

Jenna Boller is an awkward 16-year-old employee at Gladstone Shoe Store.

To Jenna’s surprise, she is enlisted by company president, Madeline Gladstone, to drive her across the country to stop Elden Gladstone from seizing his mother’s company.

While we expect Madeline to impart her life lessons on Jenna and on the reader, Jenna’s character, who openly begins to share about life with her alcoholic father, delivers her share of wisdom, as well.

Rules of the Road is one of the older award-winning and award-nominated road trip books on this reading list. Read Rules of the Road : Amazon | Goodreads

We All Loved Cowboys by Carol Bensimon

For more best road trip books set abroad, head to Brazil in a heartfelt, coming-of-age queer love story.

Cora and Julia reunite after a falling out for a road trip through Brazil, but as the trip progresses, the rifts in their friendship become palpable again.

In what is hailed as one of the finest explorations of love, Bensimon beautifully illustrates identity, love, and how they are sometimes one and the same.

At the end of the road trip, the women must decide what their future together holds, or if it involves one another at all. Read We All Loved Cowboys : Amazon | Goodreads

Travels with Charley by John Steinbeck

A 1960s travelogue and one of the classic modern books about road trips, Travels with Charley shares Steinbeck’s own road trip across America with his dog, Charley.

Compelled to see the country he writes about one more time, Steinbeck sets out from Long Island and embarks on a 10,000-mile road trip across the Northeast, Northwest, and finally down to California and across Texas.

Steinbeck shares not only the beauty of our country and the peace along our highways but also about the American way – both good and bad.

From racial hostility to loneliness and the kindness of strangers, he discovers that while so much has changed in America over the years, much still has not. Read Travels with Charley : Amazon | Goodreads

Between Two Kingdoms by Suleika Jaouad

A New York Times Bestseller and one of the most poignant road trip books, Between Two Kingdoms highlights what it means to not just survive but to live.

After graduating college, Suleika Jaouad is living in Paris, on the brink of becoming a war correspondent.

A few weeks before her twenty-second birthday, though, she learns she has leukemia and only a one in three chance of surviving the diagnosis.

For four years, she undergoes chemo, transplants, and clinical trials, chronicling her fight from her hospital bed in a popular New York Times column, Life, Interrupted.

Walking out of the hospital, a survivor, Jaouad discovers she has no idea how to live and be part of the world again. How can she make up for lost time?

Along with her terrier mutt, Jaouad heads out on a 100-day transformative cross-country road trip to meet the strangers and fellow cancer patients who had written her in the hospital.

While she can never reclaim her old life, she learns quite a bit about what lies between the kingdoms of sick and well. Read Between Two Kingdoms : Amazon | Goodreads

Confessions of a Middle-Aged Runaway by Heidi Eliason

At the age of 45, Heidi Eliason makes a complete 180, determined to do what so many of us only dream of – get off the hamster wheel, quit her 9-5 job, and live life on her own terms.

Feeling depressed, lost, and suffocated by a life without joy, she sells her home, buys an RV, and sets out on a quest for self-discovery.

Not without a few bumps in the road, Eliason learns how to maintain her new motorhome, meets a new community of people, and encounters magnificent wildlife and nature.

In freeing herself from the chains, she discovers true freedom. Honest and self-aware, Eliason’s memoir is one of the best, but lesser-known, road trip books for anyone considering an alternative lifestyle. Read Confessions of a Middle-Aged Runaway : Amazon | Goodreads

Blue Highways by William Least Heat-Moon

The true American experience lies in each of us, even those who get lost on the map.

With so many travel memoirs focusing on National Parks, cross country highways, and epic adventures to see a nation before it’s too late, Blue Highways takes a different approach.

William Least Heat-Moon, with a need to put his past behind him and a desire to discover the lost towns that fill the gaps on a map, heads down the nation’s backroads.

From Remote, Oregon, to New Freedom, Pennsylvania, and more, he discovers incredible people and their experiences along the way, giving new meaning to forgotten, blue-collar America. Read Blue Highways : Amazon | Goodreads

Into the Wild by John Krakauer

In September 1992, Christopher McCandless’s lifeless body was found in an abandoned bus along the Stampede Trail in Alaska.

A few months prior, he had sold his belongings, shed his legal name, and hitchhiked his way into the Alaskan wilderness as “Alexander Supertramp.”

A few years later, Krakauer recounts McCandless’s steps, recalling his own experiences in the wilderness and those of others lost in the wild.

Sharing parts of McCandless’s own journal, Krakauer presents the heartbreaking true story of someone who simply wanted to discover enlightenment and self-solitude in nature.

While some controversy surrounds not only the book, and whether it’s entirely true, but the cause of death, Into the Wild still serves as one of the best road trip books of all time.

We can all appreciate McCandless’s desire to lead a life of appreciation, rather than materialism.

If you enjoy hiking books , Into The Wild is also for you – and you may wish to watch the movie .

Explore even more essential books from the 90s . Read Into the Wild : Amazon | Goodreads

The Lost Continent by Bill Bryson

Popular and humorous author of A Walk in the Woods , Bryson first took his adventures to the road.

Wishing to reclaim his youth, Bill Bryson leaves his hometown and sets out on an adventure across 38 states. While some places he adores, some he simply tolerates.

He discovers a nation cloaked in greed, riddled with pollution, and lost in its television sets.

With the humor and wit we’ve grown to love and expect from Bryson, discover a cynical portrayal of small-town America. Bryson is nothing if not honest. Read The Lost Continent : Amazon | Goodreads

American Nomads by Richard Grant

One of the most fascinating books about road trips in America, American Nomads infuses the fifteen years author Richard Grant spent traveling across the US with a history of the nomadic life in America.

Grant, intrigued by what lies beyond the horizon, spent more than a decade traversing the United States, never spending more than three weeks in one place.

He meets truckers, nomads, retirees living in their RVs, cowboys, and others, infusing his travelogue with their comedic and very real stories of life on the open road.

In contrast to the typical American dream, he chronicles the history of the “wanderer” from frontiersmen to the tradesmen of newly discovered America.

Beautifully narrated, Grant reminds us all that there is freedom in exploration. Read American Nomads : Amazon | Goodreads

If You Could Ask Everyone You Met Just One Question by Ty Sassaman

If you could ask everyone you met just one question, what question would you ask?

Ty Sassaman sets out across America asking that very question to strangers he meets along the way, hoping for a revelation about his own life.

From east coast to west coast, readers follow Sassaman’s cross country road trip and the wisdom he picks up from Americans along the way.

While his memoir is very much personal, it is clear that Sassaman is invested in the experiences, fears, and joys of everyone he meets.

The answers, from celebrities to strangers, will leave us all a bit more enlightened.

If You Could Ask Everyone … is one of these rare books about road trips that raises more questions than answers. Read If You Could Ask Everyone You Met Just One Question : Amazon | Goodreads

One More Croissant for the Road by Felicity Cloake

If you’re looking for more unique and alternative road trip books, One More Croissant for the Road will take you across France, via bicycle, in search of the country’s best culinary delicacies.

Cloake cycles 3,500 kilometers across France, trying various classic dishes – from bourguignon to quiche Lorraine – and, of course, looking for the best croissant.

As a self-proclaimed foodie and professional food writer, her quirky and alternative cross-country trip will make you feel nothing if not hungry!

Anyone looking for a good laugh and that feel-good je ne sais quoi of a trip of a lifetime will adore Cloake’s journey across France. Explore even more books set in France . Read One More Croissant for the Road : Amazon | Goodreads

Don’t Make Me Pull Over by Richard Ratay

Have you even taken a family road trip if you didn’t hear yourself utter the dreaded words, “Don’t make me pull over? “This family travel writer has certainly heard the words fly out a couple of times.

Don’t Make Me Pull Over walks readers through the history of the dreaded but lovable family road trip.

From seatbelt-less cars to roadside attractions and paper maps, Ratay and readers relive the nostalgia of the family road trip.

Amidst cheap air travel and distracting technological gadgets, Ratay reminds us that convenience isn’t always what makes the best family memories – and a family road trip might just be what you need to reconnect.

For parents, this might be one of the most relatable books about road trips on this reading list. Read Don’t Make Me Pull Over : Amazon | Goodreads

The Art of Free Travel by Patrick Jones and Meg Ulman

If you’re looking for more road trip books set outside of North America, travel across Australia on a 6,000-kilometer cycling journey with the authors, two kids, and their Jack Russel Terrier.

Craving adventure, the happy Victoria-based family decides to embark on an epic road trip across their country’s east coast.

In keeping with their already established lifestyle, their main goal is simple: road trip sustainably.

Cycling, foraging, and bartering their way through Australia, Jones and Ulman poetically document how their desire to live a life consuming less, influences their travels.

Anyone intrigued by road trips and nomadic life for sustainability purposes will enjoy their unique angle. Explore more books set in and about Australia . Read The Art of Free Travel : Amazon | Goodreads

Going the Wrong Way by Chris Donaldson

Going the Wrong Way is the autobiographical story of a young man who flees Belfast in the 1970s on his motorcycle.

Hoping to make it to Australia, he documents the places, unique cultures, and landscapes he experiences along the way. 

Donaldson, however, doesn’t escape trouble entirely. He finds himself in very dangerous parts of the Middle East and Africa, gets extremely sick, and often finds himself mentally exhausted.

Still, he presses on, often due to the kindness of strangers, many of whom are living in poverty themselves.

Donaldson’s epic, and almost impossible, road trip will leave anyone accustomed to traveling with some sort of convenience, direction, and safety in awe.

For road trip books for young and new adults, Going the Wrong Way is engaging and humorous. Read Going the Wrong Way : Amazon | Goodreads

Revolutionary Ride by Lois Pryce

While many of the best books about road trips boast of self-discovery, Revolutionary Ride beautifully shares a different discovery: one of country and culture.

In 2011, at the height of the British-Iranian conflict, travel writer Lois Pryce discovers a note left outside the Iranian embassy in London.  … I wish that you will visit Iran so you will see for yourself about my country.

Against the judgment of others, Pryce embarks on a 3,000-mile journey from Tabriz to Shiraz, meeting the people of Iran, from housewives to drug addicts.

Revolutionary Ride is an eye-opening journey into the heart of a country and misunderstood group of people who, despite extreme Islamic rule, live a life full of appreciation. Read Revolutionary Ride : Amazon | Goodreads

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Off the Map by Trish Doller

TWs for aging and parental death (not a spoiler)

One of the newer 2023 road trip books that made us cry , if you are looking for romance, Off the Map will not disappoint.

Plus, who can resist a jaunt around the Irish countryside with a hunky date? Just know that this can be read as a standalone in a series.

Carla Black is heading to her best friend’s wedding, meeting up with the best man to take her there. However, Eamon is not what she is expecting, and they immediately hit it off.

We watch as Carla falls for Eamon along their road trip detours – including a tipsy bull, off-roading, and even surfing – but has to unlearn a few of the arbitrary rules engrained in her mind from childhood.

Not to mention that her dad is suffering from dementia, and Eamon’s family has always put immense pressure on his success – and their definition of it.

Find a story of overcoming loss, standing up for yourself, and lots of steamy lovemaking along the way.

Trish Doller is becoming an “always read” author for us with her themes of travel, living an authentic and honest life, and relationships – romantic and family.

You’ll champion Carla’s direct and fiery spirit along with her lessons learned along the way.

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Read Off the Map : Amazon | Goodreads

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Tori (pronouns: she/her) is a children’s librarian and mom to two boys living in New York. She’s an avid traveler, nature enthusiast, and writer, encouraging families to get outside and start exploring the world. When she’s not hiking or traveling, you can find her lost in a historical fiction book, watching Bravo reruns, or obsessively decluttering her home.

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Tori, I just happened upon your post during a Google search. Thank you so much for recommending my book, Confessions of a Middle-Aged Runaway! I’m thrilled to be among such esteemed company. What a great website–I’m following!

We are so glad! Thanks, Heidi! ~ Christine

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