The Longest Road Out

The Longest Road Out is the road trip of a lifetime. Driving it gave us, without doubt, some of our favourite memories: from sampling succulent oysters on a sun-drenched Guernsey beach, to seeing our trusty Morgan hoisted onto a ferry bound for the archipelago’s most remote inhabited island, to traversing some of Ireland’s most precarious mountain passes in stormy weather – the list goes on. Truly, there are few things more exciting than experiential exploration. Planning the expedition was almost as thrilling, though. We spent countless evenings scrutinising old maps in our neighbourhood pub, went on field trips to reconnoitre, and immersed ourselves in the stories of intrepid motorists who’d roamed the backroads before us. Every bit of planning brought us closer to the start of our adventure. Now, to help you plan your own superlative road trip, we’ve written this handbook as an accompaniment to our travelogue, route map, and digital navigation tool. Based on a decade of rigorous research, three years of fervent planning, and lessons learned during a hundred incredible days on the road, it’ll take you from the drawing board to the road in just a fraction of the time it took us. As with the rest of our concept, this handbook is divided into three parts: inspiration, organisation, and navigation. The advice and information in each chapter will help you decide which part of the route is right for you, how much money you’ll need, which bits of your itinerary you’ll need to book and in what order, what sort of items you should pack, and how to navigate Britain and Ireland’s scenic backroads.