You type “road trip ideas near me” into Google. You get 47 listicles. All of them tell you to visit the same three national parks, the same coastal highway, the same overpriced small town with a famous pie shop. You close the tab. You stay home. I get it. The problem isn’t a lack of places. It’s that most road trip advice is written by someone who flew in, rented a car, and left. That’s not a road trip. That’s a commute with scenery. A real road trip starts when you leave your own driveway. It’s about the loop, not…