Share Your Travels ✈

A group blog for those who love to travel. Submit your posts or photos and share your travels!

Posts tagged road trip

Sep 13

Travel Plans / Dreams

Our vague travel ideas are becoming more like far off plans, costs are starting to be calculated and destinations chosen. We have always intended to take off once the time was right and we had enough money saved up. Now it seems like that might happen sooner rather than later…

Because of this we are starting to work out where we might go and how long our money might last. We can either travel for a month or so staying in decent hotels, driving a rental car and eating well or slum it for as long as our money lasts. I’ve done things the cheap way before and it’s fun but I’ve grown accustomed to beds and showers etc.

We might travel across America, starting in Florida where we know some people and driving west toward California. We have looked into the possibility of hiring a car in Orlando and dropping it off in Los Angeles.

Our other plan is to travel through Europe by train, this would probably be cheaper as it would avoid booking flights. We would get an Interrail travel pass which gives you unlimited rail travel around Europe. We have seen quite a bit of Europe already though.

What ever we end up doing it has got to be better than staying here!

Aug 13

I’m not a car person, I never had posters of Ferrari F40s on my wall and I didn’t have that many toys cars. I don’t know anything about engines or what torque means. I find cars annoying - they always breakdown and they are really expensive to run (especially here in the UK).

The one thing I like about cars is that they take you places. I remember the feeling of getting my license and feeling that I could go wherever I wanted, whenever I wanted. I didn’t need to book tickets or ask for lifts any more the world (or at least the bits I could reach on a tank of petrol) was mine.

A car means freedom.

I’m sure I’ve blogged about it before but I hope to one day be able to go on an epic road trip, preferably in a car like the one above.Did you know that the UK is only 874 miles long? The idea of a ‘cross country’ road trip works better in the USA than it does in England.

So the plan is this: get a cheap flight to the west coast of America, buy a cheap car or find a car hire company who let you drop off on the other side of the country, get driving. I also need a girl to sit in the passenger seat and read maps, applicants must look good with the wind in their hair ;)