155 Best Road Trip Captions For Instagram (Funny Puns + Quotes)

Looking for the best road trip Instagram captions for your travel photos?

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Heading out on a road trip with your favorite people and some coffee might be the best feeling in the world.

The glow of the early morning sun, the mystery of where the day will take you, and the beautiful scenery unfolding before your eyes…

It only makes sense you’d want to document every moment of your road trip!

Of course, you’ll also need the perfect caption to compliment your amazing photos.

In this post, I’ve put together all the best road trip captions including quotes, puns, and songs to give you inspiration.

Let’s dive in.

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Short Road Trip Captions

1. Always take the scenic route.

2. Saving the passenger seat just for you.

3. Wanderlust and highway dust.

4. Always say yes to a road trip.

5. Windows down, music up.

6. No road trip is long with good company.

7. Road tripper for life.

8. Take the long way home.

9. Life is like a road trip: enjoy every day and don’t carry too much luggage.

10. Little by little, one travels far.

11. On a road trip, be back never.

12. Life is a highway.

13. Here today, gone tomorrow.

14. Sometimes all you need is a great friend and a tank of gas.

15. Wanna go for a ride?

16. Happiness is a road trip and a good playlist.

17. My heart is on the open road.

18. Here for the journey, not the destination.

19. Nowhere to be but everywhere.

20. Turns out, I just needed a day off and a dirt road.

21. BRB – exploring.

22. Get in loser, we’re going on a road trip.

23. Taking it one mile at a time.

24. Are we there yet?

25. Out of mind, out of town.

26. Sometimes, a girl just needs wide open spaces.

27. Road trips aren’t measured by mile markers, but by moments.

28. Miles and smiles.

29. There are no wrong turns.

30. Difficult roads often lead to beautiful destinations.

31. Drive it like you stole it.

32. Never fear the road less taken.

Catchy Road Trip Captions

33. Hit the road.

34. Really in the mood for a long drive with no destination.

35. An open road is the most exciting part of a road trip.

36. There are no wrong turns – just new adventures.

37. Your life, your ride.

38. Asphalt keeps me grounded.

39. BRB – on an adventure.

40. Every day is a winding road.

41. A bend in the road is not the end of the road.

42. Shut up and drive.

43. Endless playlists + coffee + best friends = best road trip ever.

44. People don’t take road trips, road trips take people.

45. Road trip hair, don’t care.

46. The best part of a road trip isn’t arriving at your destination… it’s the fast food along the way.

47. Feeling like a road trip day.

48. Making memories, one road trip at a time.

49. Road trip vibes.

50. On the road again.

51. It feels good to be lost in the right direction.

52. Born for the open road.

53. Life is too short to not go on a spontaneous road trip.

54. Highway exits are just new adventures waiting to happen.

55. Living like every day is a road trip.

56. Hodophile: one who loves to travel.

Fun Road Trip Captions

57. Until our paths cross again.

58. When you go on a road trip, the trip itself becomes the story.

59. Taking the high road, and seeing where it takes me.

60. Speeding into a new sunrise.

61. I don’t care how long it takes, but I’m going somewhere beautiful.

62. Embracing my inner road tripper.

63. The road is there, it will always be there. You just have to decide when to take it.

64. Road trip, won’t quit.

65. Living the road trip aesthetic.

66. On a road trip to everywhere.

67. Is there anything better in life than buying snacks for a road trip?

68. Not all those who wander are lost.

69. Is it really a road trip without fast food and good tunes?

70. The road that leads to nowhere for others might just be the road that leads somewhere for you.

71. Ultimately, every road leads to the whole world.

72. Let’s go on a roadtrip.

73. I don’t know where I’m going, but I’m on the way.

Cute Road Trip Captions

74. Today feels like a good day for a road trip.

75. Discovering myself on a roadtrip.

76. There’s no problem so big that a road trip can’t solve.

77. Just want to feel the wind on my face as I drive down the open highway.

78. Happiness is planning a road trip to somewhere new with someone you love.

79. Sometimes the best therapy is a long drive and good music.

80. The world is too big to stay in one place, and life is too short to do just one thing.

81. ‘Are we there yet?’ = the most popular road trip quote of all time.

82. Finding Route.

83. Aesthetic: road trip.

84. All I want for Christmas is a road trip.

85. The only trip I want to take is one on the open road.

86. Ready, Set, Go.

87. Road trip ready.

88. All road trips have secret destinations of which the driver is unaware.

89. Relationship status: in love with road trip sunsets.

90. Never underestimate the therapeutic power of driving and listening to loud music.

91. Me, you, the radio, and the highway.

92. Sometimes the best therapy is a road trip.

93. Life is meant for good friends and great adventures.

94. Lost count of the mile markers.

95. Feeling free.

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Best Road Trip Puns

96. We’re going on an ad-van-ture.

97. You drive me car-azy.

98. Having a wheel-y nice time.

99. Texting while driving? Oh, cell no.

100. Been driving so long I need a brake.

101. Car puns are so tire-ing.

102. I’ll go the extra mile for you.

103. RV there yet?

104. I was gonna make a pun about road trips, but I ran out of gas.

Short Road Trip Quotes

105. “Afoot and light-hearted I take to the open road.” – Walt Whitman

106. “Two roads diverged in a wood, and I – I took the one less traveled by.” – Robert Frost

107. “Still round the corner there may wait. A new road or a secret gate.” – J. R. R. Tolkien

108. “Well, we’re not in the middle of nowhere, but we can see it from here.” – Thelma & Louise

109. “I climb behind the steering wheel… I drive off immediately without once looking back; it’s a long journey but it leads to freedom.” – Corinne Hofmann

110. “Roads are a record of those who have gone before.” – Rebecca Solnit

111. “If you come to a fork in the road, take it.” – Yogi Berra

112. “Sometimes the most scenic roads in life are the detours you didn’t mean to take.” – Angela N Blount

113. “Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever on the road.” – Jack Kerouac

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Inspirational Road Trip Quotes

114. I love road trips. You get into this Zen rhythm; throw the sense of time out the window.” – Miriam Toews

115. “The freedom of the open road is seductive, serendipitous and absolutely liberating.” – Aaron Lauritsen

116. “All he needed was a wheel in his hand and four on the road.” – Jack Kerouac

117. “If you’re on a road trip, you need driving music.” – Edgar Wright

118. “Now, on this road trip, my mind seemed to uncrinkle, to breathe, to present to itself a cure for a disease it had not, until now, known it had.” – Elizabeth Berg

119. “If you make the mistake of looking back too much, you aren’t focused enough on the road in front of you.” – Brad Paisley

120. “And just like that, we’re on our way to everywhere.” – Emery Lord

121. “Map out your future – but do it in pencil. The road ahead is as long as you make it. Make it worth the trip.” – Jon Bon Jovi

122. “Look for chances to take the less-traveled roads There are no wrong turns.” – Susan Magsamen

Beautiful Road Trip Quotes

123. “I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.” – Douglas Adams

124. “Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and enjoy the journey.” – Babs Hoffman

125. “Some beautiful paths can’t be discovered without getting lost.” – Erol Ozan

126. “Because the greatest part of a road trip isn’t arriving at your destination. It’s all the wild stuff that happens along the way.” – Emma Chase

127. “You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.” – William Hazlitt

128. “I take to the open road, healthy, free, the world before me.” – Walt Whitman

129. “If you don’t know where you are going, any road will get you there.” – Lewis Carroll

130. “God made the world round so we would never be able to see too far down the road.” – Isak Dinesen

131. “There is nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep on rolling under the stars.” – Jack Kerouac

132. “The open road is a beckoning, a strangeness, a place where a man can lose himself.” – William Least Heat-Moon

Funny Road Trip Quotes

133. “People having babies and getting married… and I’m like: where am I road tripping to next?” – Unknown

134. “That’s why I love road trips, dude. It’s like doing something without actually doing anything.” – John Green

135. “A road trip is a way for the whole family to spend time together and annoy each other in new places.” – Tom Lichtenheld

136. “Kilometers are shorter than miles. Save gas, take your next trip in kilometers.” – George Carlin

137. “It doesn’t matter how old you get, buying snacks for a road trip should always look like an unsupervised 9-year-old was given $100.” – Unknown

138. “Road trips required a couple of things: a well-balanced diet of caffeine, salt and sugar and an excellent selection of tunes. Oh, and directions.” – Jenn McKinlay

139. “In 1903 the Wright brothers invented airplanes, because in 1902 they took a road trip across the country with their family.” – Bill Engvall

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Road Trip Quotes From Movies

140. “Adventure is out there.” – Up

141. “Fifty years from now, when you’re looking back at your life, don’t you want to be able to say you had the guts to get in the car?“ – Transformers

142. “We’re almost there, but nowhere near it. All that matters is that we’re going.” – Gilmore Girls

143. “According to the map, we’ve only gone four inches.” – Dumb & Dumber

144. “Just grab a friend and take a ride, together upon the open road.” – The Goofy Movie

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Famous Road Trip Songs

145. “On the road again
I just can’t wait to get on the road again
The life I love is makin’ music with my friends
And I can’t wait to get on the road again” – Willie Nelson, “On The Road Again”

146. “So we live out in our old van
Travel all across this land
Me and you” – Zac Brown Band, “Free”

147. “Life is a highway
I wanna ride it all night long
If you’re goin’ my way
Well, I wanna drive it all night long” – Rascal Flatts, “Life Is A Highway”

148. “We’re goin’ ridin’ on the freeway of love
Wind’s against our backs
We’re goin’ ridin’ on the freeway of love
In my pink Cadillac” – Aretha Franklin, “Freeway Of Love”

149. “I hear the birds on the summer breeze, I drive fast
I am alone at midnight
Been tryin’ hard not to get into trouble, but I
I’ve got a war in my mind
So, I just ride” – Lana Del Rey, “Ride”

150. “Everyday is a winding road
I get a little bit closer
Everyday is a faded sign
I get a little bit closer to feeling fine” – Sheryl Crow, “Everyday Is A Winding Road”

Classic Road Trip Songs For Captions

151. “I’ve been everywhere, man
I’ve been everywhere, man
Crossed the deserts bare, man
I’ve breathed the mountain air, man
Of travel I’ve had my share, man
I’ve been everywhere” – Johnny Cash, “I’ve Been Everywhere”

152. “So I remember we were driving, driving in your car
Speed so fast, I felt like I was drunk
City lights lay out before us
And your arm felt nice wrapped ’round my shoulder
And I had a feeling that I belonged
I had a feeling I could be someone” – Tracy Chapman, “Fast Car”

153. “Get your motor runnin’
Head out on the highway
Looking for adventure
In whatever comes our way” – Steppenwolf, “Born To Be Wild”

154. “Lord, I was born a ramblin’ man
Tryin’ to make a livin’ and doin’ the best I can” – The Allman Brothers Band, “Ramblin’ Man”

155. “I’m just a traveller on this earth
Sure as my heart’s behind the pocket of my shirt
I’ll just keep rollin’ ’til I’m in the dirt
‘Cause I’m a traveller, oh, I’m a traveller
I couldn’t tell you honey, I don’t know
Where I’m goin’ but I’ve got to go
‘Cause every turn reveals some other road
And I’m a traveller” – Chris Stapleton, “Traveller”

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