Very serious.
But then, I’m a guy who until very recently, really enjoyed a ‘road trip’ to no particular place for no particular purpose.
Road trips for no particular reason sound fun. Always wanted to do such things, but seldom have the time.
I'm sort of with you on that. But if I'm going to take a long get-away-from-it-all-for-awhile drive, I like to know exactly where I'm going. Usually it's an area I'm pretty much familiar with.
For example, living all but one of my nearly 60 years in stinking ugly grouchy bad air New York City, I love to take a drive Upstate to take in the clean fresh air and beautiful scenery up there: mountains/hills, forests, lakes, streams, waterfalls, and, being a onetime geology major, the incredible rock outcrops there and along the way, some of which are fossil bearing.