A driving tour with a 12-year-old and a driving tour with a 25-year-old are structurally different trips, even when the route on paper looks identical.
The obvious difference: they can actually drive
The most practical change is also the simplest one — an adult child who meets the standard licensing and age requirements is a genuine second (or third) driver in the group, not a passenger who happens to share your last name. That changes seat rotation planning, who’s behind the wheel on which day’s most demanding pass, and whether everyone gets real time in each car across the week rather than one person doing all the driving.
Letting go of the itinerary, a little
Something less obvious changes too: with adult children, the trip often works better with a bit more looseness built in than a rigidly planned family holiday. A free evening, an optional detour, the option for one car to peel off and do something different for an afternoon — adult children generally want some of that autonomy, and building a little of it into the plan tends to make the whole week land better than an itinerary that assumes everyone wants to do everything together at every moment.
Why this is often the easier group to plan for
Compared to a trip with young children, this is usually the more straightforward version to organize: no naptime constraints, no need to break up long driving stretches for a restless kid in the back seat, and a group dynamic that tends to feel closer to friends traveling together than a family trip with real dependents involved. The driving itself, the pacing, and the evenings can run at full intensity without the adjustments a younger family would need.
Every Pure Adrenalin route works for multi-generational groups. Get in touch and we’ll help plan the seat rotation and pacing that fits your specific family.