How I Solo Travel: Road Trip!

Explore my expert tips for planning the ideal road trip, whether short or long. Learn how to prepare and execute a successful journey with ease.

I'll never forget a road trip I took on my own coming back from Washington D.C. It was the winter of 2003, and I was in my second year of college. I was on, what was becoming an annual trip with my friends in college, and every year we would see different faces and names but the trip would stay the same. Anyway, we had a few people who volunteered to drive down and we would carpool, and I was one of the drivers and drove down there. It was an 8 hour drive from where I lived, hopping on Interstate 95 and passing through New York City, Philadelphia, Baltimore and eventually Washington D.C. The friend whom I would drive home with ended up leaving earlier, and no one else needed a ride so I drove all the way down and had to drive myself back home. I didn't know what to expect! I packed my stuff, and headed home. Now, keep in mind that this was in 2003, way before satellite radio, podcasts, and audiobooks were popular. I had a CD player in my car, but I wasn't in the mood for CDs. Instead,…