Enhance your best travel photos with these clever quotes and funny lines perfect for any destination.

Crafting your posts might even detract from being in the moment.

Keep the apps closed while you’re enjoying an experience and turn off notifications to minimize distractions.

Woman taking photos near Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco

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Below, get some inspiration or borrow one of these vacation captions for Instagram.

Vacation Captions for Instagram

It’s about the journey, not the destination.

Wanderlust: a desire to travel and to understand one’s very existence.

View of a palm tree-lined white-sand beach with turquoise waters and blue skies.

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An adventure a day keeps the doctor away.

Up, up, and away … [airplane emoji]

Vacation mode: activated.

[waving hand emoji]

Always take the scenic route.

Couple eating ice cream and taking a selfie in Europe.

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Every day is one step closer to your next vacation.

Let the adventure begin.

PSA: use your PTO!

[cloud emoji]

Wings up, notifications off.

[airplane emoji]

In touch, but out of reach.

Check out and check in.

BRB, need a break.

Today’s to-do list.

Don’t call, thx!

[peace sign hand emoji]

Take me to the airport.

[airplane emoji]

Far off …

Catch flights, not feelings!

Listen to your heart (and you’ll find yourself at the airport).

If I haven’t responded to you, here’s why.

Mentally, I’m still here.

Memories in the making!

[pinpoint emoji] until further notice.

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Digital greetings from [destination].

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Beach Caption Ideas

Time to seas the day.

Life’s a beach.

Time for some vitamin sea.

[beach emoji]

I never met a sunset I didn’t like.

[sunset emoji]

The tan will fade, but the memories will last forever.

Palm trees and the ocean breeze.

It’s a shore thing.

[palm tree emoji]

Sunshine on my mind.

Every day is sun-day at the beach.

Incoming: vacation vibes.

[sunglasses-wearing emoji]

Salty over this trip’s ending.

Sunshine is my antidote.

[sun emoji]

Mountain-inspired Captions

Find me where the wild things are.

The mountains are my happy place.

The best views come from the hardest climb.

Take me to the mountains.

All good things are wild and free.

I will move mountains.

Climbing my way to bigger and better things.

A change of scenery.

Today’s forecast [weather emoji].

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European Vacation Captions

Italy stole a pizza my heart.

Doing it for the Amster-gram.

When in Rome …

Leaving Germany is going to be the wurst.

It’s always pub o’clock in London!

Fiesta like there’s no manana.

Choc full of Belgian chocolate!

[chocolate bar emoji]

Irish I never had to leave Ireland.

Sea you soon, Croatia.

Eiffel for France, and now I never want to leave.

[green check emoji]

Real big [destination] energy.

[flag emoji]

Have a good trip!

[in the destination’s language]

Cheers!

[in the destination’s language]

Hello, [Destination]!

[in the destination’s language]

U.S.

Destinations and Staycation Captions

Viva Las Vegas!

Woke up in the city that never sleeps.

Chicago has blown me away now I see why they call it the #WindyCity!

What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas.

North is a direction.

The South is a lifestyle.

Everything’s bigger in Texas.

New York state of mind.

Seattle days and summer rays!

Welcome to colorful Colorado.

All you need is a little faith, trust, and pixie dust.

Not pictured: [something unexpected not shown in the photos].

Bright lights and neon nights.

Susan Sontag

And I think to myself, what a wonderful world.

Louis Armstrong

The biggest adventure you could take is to live the life of your dreams.

Oprah Winfrey

Travel is about the gorgeous feeling of teetering in the unknown.

Anthony Bourdain

Each fresh peak ascended teaches something.

Sir Martin Convay

Travel can be anywhere, it’s not measured in miles.

Samantha Brown

Never stop doing things for the first time.

Anonymous

There should be sympathy cards for having to go back to work after vacation.

Anonymous

Jet lag is for amateurs.

Dick Clark

Bizarre travel plans are dancing lessons from God.

Kurt Vonnegut

I’ve been everywhere, man.

Johnny Cash

On the road again.

Just can’t wait to get on the road again.

Willie Nelson

“Grab your passport and my hand.”

Taylor Swift

“Take me anywhere, I don’t care.”

The Smiths

“Heaven is [another] place on earth.”

Belinda Carlisle

“I’m walking fast through the traffic lights.

Busy streets and busy lives …” Taylor Swift