Roadtrippin'

I don't know about you, but I love road trips. Seriously, sitting in the car for hours and hours, listening to fun music and talking as much as a want are some of my favorite things in life. And while car rides with my mom are usually stressful for me, I love car rides with my dad.

I talked about this in my previous blog post, and needless to say, I'll be spending a ton of time on the road. Don't get me wrong, as I said, I love driving and I cannot wait to get my driver's license! But, just in case you haven't read my last blog post, I'll be going on two roadtrips this summer - from Texas to California in 10 days, and from Texas to "the beach somewhere" in 5 days (we have no idea what beach we're going to end up going to).

Anyways, as I was trying to plan a route and looking for stops on the way to California I realized that I could probably find a very helpful route-planning website...if I just googled "road trip maker". That is what I did, and after looking through some road-trip-planning websites, I decided on favorite one - Roadtrippers.

This is how the homepage of the website looks - everything is step-by-step and super easy to figure out. Oh, and in case you were wondering, you can plan roadtrips outside of the U.S. by using this site - the map is worldwide!

After messing around with the website, I figured out that before you begin to plan your road trip you have to start with the basics - enter your starting point and your destination. After you see the general route that you will take, you can go more into detail to decide on where you can eat, shop, rest, or go sightseeing.

If you click on the "find place" button that is below the "plan trip" button, you will get a bar like the one in the picture above - it categorizes places that you would usually go to while on a road trip, making it easier for you to plan your road-trip step-by-step.

By clicking on one of the options from the bar that came out (I clicked on "Food + Drink"), more options will pop out. From those options you can check off ones that you are interested in. For example, I checked off "Vegetarian and Healthy" from the "Food + Drink" category, and the image below shows what popped up.

As you can see, all of the "Vegetarian & Healthy" places to eat in the U.S. came up - some of them are on my road trip route, some are not. This makes planning so much easier!

Me being the type A organization freak that I am, I spent some time on this website and just started to plan our in-depth road-trip. I have a lot of stuff going on this week, so I couldn't spend as much time as I would like to on this website... But, I mean, I will be completely free this weekend, so I can spend as much time planning as I want.

I am not sponsored by Roadtrippers in any way, shape, or form - everything I say here is my own honest opinion :)

Are you going on any road-trips this summer? If yes, let me know in the comments below!

Also, feel free to leave any requests for further posts below :)

xoxo,
Liz