https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/04/27/road-trip-tips-and-hacks/

Last summer was billed as a renaissance of the Great American Road Trip. This one really might be.

Car trips were certainly the preferred mode of travel in the midst of the 2020 pandemic, with 97 percent of travelers favoring that mode of transportation, AAA reported last summer. For the most part, they didn’t go far, as the U.S. Travel Association can attest. Travel spending plummeted 45 percent — $1.1 trillion — last year. Instead, there were tent shortages and kayak waiting lists as vacationers headed to parks near home or camped in their own backyards.