The warm, fuzzy feeling one gets after a long immensely satisfying trip.

A Vietnamese sandwich eaten while driving at high speed.

The state of mind unique to road trips that convinces travelers that gummi bears and fried onion rings count as a daily serving of fruits and vegetables. Studies indicate that this may lead to automobesity.

The amount of time a weary traveler can tolerate the sounds of sexual intercourse through thin hotel walls before pounding angrily on the wall.

When you’re seated directly below the drop-down movie screen on an airplane and the other screens are all too far away to view comfortably.

Someone who believes they have a revolutionary system for packing luggage and insists on explaining it to anyone who will listen.

Embarrassment caused by trying and failing to start, find reverse, or otherwise operate an unfamiliar automobile in a foreign country and having to ask someone for help.

When an obnoxious person loses their luggage and has no change of clothes.

Someone who tries to make themselves understood in a foreign country simply by speaking louder in their own tongue.

An approach to travel that purports to serve the local culture, environment, or further personal growth, but in reality only artificially inflates a traveler’s sense of self importance.