Road trips can be either extremely fun or extremely boring, its all dependent upon what (and who) you bring with you. Whether you're just heading up north for a weekend, or taking a 17-hour drive to Florida, you will definitely want to take a look this list of road trip necessities!

1. Fun travel buddies

The people you bring with you on a road trip can literally make or break your experience. Bring some fun friends with you to help make the drive a little more bearable!

2. The obvious, SNACKS!

Eat until you put yourself into a food coma, you have a long drive to sleep it off anyways!

3. Pillows and blankets

Comfort is key to surviving a long drive.

4. A lit playlist

Put on some throwback songs and everyone in the car will be having a good time!

5. Portable phone chargers

No one wants their phone dying in the middle of a good jam session, let alone their phone dying when it is the only source of directions.

6. Travel games

To help cut down on the boredom level that a road trip can reach, have some fun games up your sleeve to pull out when boredom strikes.

7. The not so obvious... Toilet paper

There's nothing worse than going to a rest stop and realizing there's no toilet paper or even worse when you're driving and have a bathroom emergency but the next rest stop isn't for another 50 miles.

8. Another not so obvious: a garbage bag (or multiple)

Trash accumulates rather fast when you're in a car with 2-5 other people. Also, you want to have some trash bags on hand just in case someone gets carsick.

9. A good book or two

For when your travel companions become just a little bit too much to handle and you want some "you time".

10. Spare money

So you can buy random novelties from places for your friends and family back home!