When did a motoring holiday become a road trip?

[DocArbathnot]

This really.

No one goes on motoring/driving/touring holidays anymore just road trips.

To me a road trip is an altogether more unstructured adventure. How can you have a road trip when the route/sightseeing are planned and every stop/hotel is booked?

So when did people stop having motoring holidays?

[ARobinson]

The Americans see a 1 day jaunt down to another town as a road trip these days, that's why everyone now calls their motoring holiday a road trip, because they hear it on tv all of the time.

I don't see many people that don't pre plan. I just tend to book accommodation and everything else is however it goes. And that's only because my super organised other half has a fit if its not planned meticulously so just the accommodation is a compromise between a road trip and a motoring holiday

[mike9009]

Apart from our first trip into France, all our camping/ motoring holidays have been unplanned. Simple reason is you can sometimes pick a site campsite/ hotel and be stuck there for a few nights...... Far better to go unplanned with maybe a rough plan on the area you want to visit.

Never ever called it a road trip though....

Mike

[ukzz4iroc]

Same sort of time people started saying things like 'rock up' instead or turn up and people started using the word 'awesome' and 'like' lots and 'dude'.

In true British style, it was ridiculed first then adopted.