A road trip is any journey taken on roads, regardless of stops en route. Typically, road trips are long distances traveled by automobile.
The first recorded road trip was attested in stele in the court of Ramses II. He was said to "come down on the Medeans in his chariot after driving all night from Memphis."
Road trips were important throughout antiquity. Alexander's march into India was described by the historian Nearchus. During the Roman Repu...
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A road trip is any journey taken on roads, regardless of stops en route. Typically, road trips are long distances traveled by automobile.
The first recorded road trip was attested in stele in the court of Ramses II. He was said to "come down on the Medeans in his chariot after driving all night from Memphis."
Road trips were important throughout antiquity. Alexander's march into India was described by the historian Nearchus. During the Roman Republic, it was not uncommon for young patrician men to gather together to tour the Roman world.
Young European men of means would often go on a grand tour during the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries. People of many religions went (and still go) on a pilgrimage.
Carl Jung identified the road trip as a "persistent element of human culture."
The world's first recorded long distance road trip by automobile took place in Germany in August 1888 when Bertha Benz, the wife of Karl Benz, the inventor of the first patented motor car (the Benz Patent...
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