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Women Who Travel | Condé Nast Traveler

How to Plan the Ultimate Road Trip

Women Who Travel | Condé Nast Traveler

Condé Nast Traveler

Places & Travel, Society & Culture

4.4636 Ratings

🗓️ 9 July 2019

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

We are out traveling once again—but don’t worry we’ll be back with new episodes very, very soon. This week, in honor of the summer travel spirit, we’re throwing it back with one of our favorite episodes from last summer: our ultimate guide to road trips. Joined by Mara Balagtas and Traveler community editor Megan Spurrell, we talk about some of the best road trips we've ever taken, compare notes on some of the most memorable routes in the U.S., and dish plenty of advice on everything from car maintenance to playlist making.

You can find the original show notes for this episode here: https://www.cntraveler.com/story/women-who-travel-podcast-how-to-plan-the-ultimate-road-trip

And read our complete guide to road trips here: https://www.cntraveler.com/story/the-complete-guide-to-road-trips

This episode originally aired in May 2018. 

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0:00.0

Hey everyone. My co-host Lale and I are out traveling once again, but don't worry, we'll be back with new episodes very, very soon. This week, in the summer travel spirit, we're throwing it back to one of our favorite episodes from last summer, our ultimate guide to road trips. Joined by Mara Balagtas and Megan Sparell, we talked about all the do's and don'ts of the open road and the routes we love. Enjoy. Hey

0:01.2

Hey and don'ts of the open road and the routes we love. Enjoy.

0:29.3

Hey, everyone, you're listening to Women Who Travel, a podcast from Kanias Traveler that digs deep into the realities of traveling as a woman today and celebrates why we'll

0:33.3

never stay home. I'm Meredith Carey, and I'm joined once again by my co-host,ale-Aericoglu. Hello. We've missed you. Thank you. I missed you all. We're joined today by editors Megan Sparell and Mara Balogtus, and this week we're talking about road trips. And the way that Lolly and I thought about this is kind of like a game of would you rather so the very first question that I

0:55.3

have for you all is would you rather stop a lot wait a mean you say why we're talking about road trips

0:59.9

oh my gosh very important very arbitrary anniversary that I was very excited about when I went down

1:04.8

an internet hole 27th anniversary of Thelma and Louise

1:09.3

woo done done massive the most important anniversary 7th anniversary of Thelma and Louise. Woo! Dant-da-da!

1:11.4

Massive.

1:12.9

The most important anniversary

1:14.8

of all anniversary.

1:15.9

I do watch it yearly.

1:18.5

It's so good.

1:19.5

How can you not?

1:20.4

So 27, would you rather stop 27 times?

1:24.9

Or would you rather go the distance?

1:26.9

What do you think, Mara?

1:28.3

Our resident, Roady.

1:29.9

I think I would want to stop because that's the best way to kind of explore the area.

1:36.1

It's like, why would you kind of want to drive straight shot from A to B?

1:39.8

If you stop a lot, you can discover more places, find more gems.

1:43.7

So definitely stop along the way for me.

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