I grew up in the 60s and 70s so road trips were pretty much the only way to vacation. We would even take mini-daily trips, going for a ride to just explore the state we lived in. Our most epic one was one summer in the 70s, probably around 73 or 74. Daddy had a lot of unused vacation, almost 3 months, so we took off in the VW van, Mama, Daddy, 3 of my 5 older brothers and me. We started in Albuquerque, made our way west, up the California coast over through Utah and back down. We camped the entire time, back then you could pretty much pitch a tent anywhere you wanted you didn't have to go to campgrounds. We had a huge tent that Mama, Daddy, one brother and I slept in and the two oldest brothers pitched pup tents for themselves. It was so much fun and we had so many adventures. We own a fifth wheel RV so road trips are how we vacation now but even before we bought that, my son and I took road trips. We flew to NM from Georgia one year then rented a car and drove all around NM. The only other times we flew was if we were taking an international dive trip.