Life Is a Highway: Great Articles About Road Trips

In the spirit of Kerouac and Steinbeck, the celebrated travel writer fulfills a childhood fantasy: to drive across his native land The mixed blessing of America is that anyone with a car can go anywhere. The visible expression of our freedom is that we are a country without roadblocks.

Journalist Janine Rubenstein took her family on a road trip from New Jersey to California just days before George Floyd’s murder set this nation ablaze. Here’s what they learned about motor homes, the country and life.

Make a new canine friend in Maine and chances are good she’s from down south. To understand why—and how they arrive—Kathryn Miles joined 37 very good dogs on a 1,600-mile road trip.

A science journalist tours the geological ruins of our planet’s worst mass extinction ... in Western Kansas.

This palate-scorching, Mexican hamburger- and adovada-fueled road trip up I-25 from Las Cruces to Denver is not for the faint of heart.

A truck driver uncovers secrets about the first nuclear bombs and makes clear that our belief in the secrecy of the bomb is a theological construct, adopted to counter the idea that someone might use one against us.

Doctors said we could blame my father’s football career for his vanishing memory. So Dad and I decided to take a road trip down south to revisit the schools that made him.

In the land of Tolstoy, Turgenev and now Putin, what are the stories Russians are telling themselves?

Alta Editor at Large Mary Melton searches for a deeper connection with her autistic son—and with a divided country—on a 15-day journey along Route 66.

Why take your family to France or Florida when you could pack them into a minivan with a stranger in Morocco? Novelist Michael Chabon explains.

A recklessly picaresque, highly philosophical, gloriously unmapped road trip in search of secret places you’ll have to find yourself.

It’s a rather insane premise: drive in a tiny, terrible car, from the U.K. to Mongolia and on into Siberia.

“We were looking for endings: vestiges of a South we had not known in Atlanta.” A road trip through the Old South reveals uncomfortable family truths.

Fleabag motels, caesuras, femme phases, double bank shots, stale sweat, McDonald’s, bedside Bibles, hatchbacks, counter girls, evolved orchids, tomorrow’s underwear, impetus & traffic signals in Laredo.