Wherever you live, you can be guaranteed to find some epic Road trips while you’re there. Not only will you be able to get on the road with your friends and family, but you’ll be able to discover some things that might be on your bucket list and tick them off. Before you get on the road though, there are some things that you need to do to get ready for it. 

Not only do you want to ensure that you’re feeling excited and ready for the trip, but you want to feel organized and like the car or van you are driving is safe. Ensuring van servicing is completed before you go can help, but so can writing your own itinerary. There is no denying that there are plenty of benefits in the planning and preparation of a Road Trip, so let’s take a look at some of those below.

• Download or buy some maps. You may think, but you have GPS, so why do you need that? But not everywhere you go, especially in the Outback road trips, is going to have an Internet connection. You cannot rely on a possible Wi-Fi connection that will help you when you are in the middle of nowhere, especially if you don’t remember to bring a signal booster with you. Not everybody lives somewhere where there is a phone tower to bounce a signal from, so make sure that you have downloadable maps and paper ones in the car. If you do that, you are less likely to get lost.
• Always travel with some Ziploc bags. Whether you are collecting sand wherever you go or you are heading somewhere to store rubbish in the car from all the candy wrappers from your trip, you need to consider making sure that you have some way to organize yourself. Nobody wants to bring giant trash bags, but Ziploc bags can really help, especially if you have food waste or fruit peelings to store. This way, when you get out of the car at your next stop, you can just make sure everything goes into the right bin.
• Get the van checked over before you go. If you take your van to a mechanic, they can do a full workup on it to ensure that it’s ready to be on the road. The last thing you want to do is to have your road trip start and your car breakdown as you go. Nobody wants that to happen, especially not in the Outback and especially when you are too far away from a gas station to get some help.
• Don’t waste your trip by sleeping in. When you’re on vacation, all you want to do is relax. But if you sleep in on your road trip day, you’re going to miss out on missing the traffic and getting a good head start on your day on the road. Pack the car the night before as much as possible and hit the road before everybody else does and you don’t have to worry about the traffic.