There you are sitting in your rented apartment or house. It’s nice. It’s comfortable and cozy. And it’s mighty expensive. That monthly payment we call rent is like a sucker punch to your checking account. Hundreds, perhaps even thousands of dollars are gone in an...

Filling up your tank sounds like a straightforward concept, but you might be surprised by how crossing borders can complicate the task. In fact, there is no standard procedure for how to pump gas throughout the world. Fuel standards, stations and pumping etiquette all...

There are few things in the world that embody a sense of adventure more than a car. You can go almost anywhere—the mountains, the beach, the desert—anytime, for as long as you’d like. But usually when you arrive you hunker down in a swanky hotel for about a week and...

Can you brave the longest road in the world? If you’re looking for the road trip of a lifetime, consider a road spanning the entire Americas, circling Australia’s coast, or covering India’s mainland. When preparing for an extensive road trip, there are many things to...

We recently asked 1,000 Americans who they’d want to go on a road trip with, and 70 percent responded with their family. That’s not all we learned from our survey. Those family trips in a wood-paneled station wagon are long gone. Roomier than a wagon and nimbler than...