guestchaz is lost again. Reminds me of the Geico commercial with Tarzan and Jane arguing over directions. Love that one, especially Jane here.
I have driven all of I95 at one point or another over the years. Lots of fun and interesting stuff to see along it, in every state. I enjoy completing highways, driving along the entire length. I95, I75, I90, I40, I84, I94, not quite done with I35, need the stretch from San Antonio to Laredo.
For my last company I did a little business traveling. I’ve extended work trips to attend baseball games, sight-see, or visit family.
On one 2-week trip to Stockholm (company HQ), I took a long weekend in between and drove to Aalborg DK to visit my nephew, via Copenhagen and the Storebælt Bridge. It was winter, the roads were icy and a storm was passing through; at times it was heavy snow and strong winds. Several cars (locals) had wiped out. I had studded tires on the rental, but the studs weren’t that big. Several times I considered turning around because it was pretty dangerous, especially with the strong cross-winds. I pressed on and made it through, but it was touch and go for a while there. Not exactly a restful drive.
I enjoyed a nice weekend in the DK, taking my nephew out to Løkken DK and enjoying the area.
On the way back I took the ferry from Frederikshavn to Göteborg. That was more relaxing, and the weather was much better. I drove to Uppsala for work and then came back to Stockholm where I like to stay in Saltsjöbaden when I am in town.
NM, double post.
One of my brothers once rode his Honda Gold Wing on US 1 from DC until he ran out of road in Key West.
I would love to ride that!
I got to see a lot of the USA thanks to my mom’s brother (my uncle) who’d take my brother and I with him on vacations (my parents were working-class middle, and we only had a couple ‘family’ vacations, one to Washington DC and another to Wisconsin and Detroit). Thanks to Unlce Russ, we saw a lot of the West and a fair amount of the East. In the 1970’s I took my fair share of road trips, often covering ground travelled as a kid.
Lately it has been if I flew into a city, often for a conference, I’d take a few days and go driving. I’ve been in all 50 states now, and do a lot of overseas travel, but now that I am becoming a gentleman of leisure, I suspect that some areas I’ve spent little time in (the West Coast) will get a little more attention.
I once attempted Suicide By Sleep Deprivation by driving from my house to upstate New York, then down to Newark, NJ and back (Reno) in about 6 days, with snow and rain nearly all the way.
Got a short break of nice weather in New York. I remember whizzing past Gettysburg at 2 a.m. and thinking, “Boy, I sure would have liked to see that!”
Coming back through Wyoming, I started to hallucinate and fell like I was in a tube, slowly rotating counter-clockwise, like that tunnel at Universal Studios.
That was some bad MoJo.
It wasn’t really suicide, I was delivering stuff.
I’ve driven out to Key West, but it was in an RV, not on a Gold Wing. That would have been a lot more fun.
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I knew that and didn’t realize I’d typed the wrong thing till I finally came back to this thread:smack:
besides actual locations and stuff I don’t worry about until I’m planning a trip.
Bullitt, I thought you’d like to know that thanks to you I’ve found out that flying from Madrid to Boston or Montreal and coming back from Miami can for some reason be a lot cheaper than the other way 'round.
As a kid we did go camping (with a camp trailer) but mostly within Wisconsin (we went to U.P. Michigan once).
From MN I have driven
To St George Utah with two others, stopping only for gas or restroom breaks (and non fast food breakfast near Denver)
To Arkansas with one other
To Teton Valley alone (stopping in Buffalo, WY)
To Colorado Springs with one other (stopping in Nebraska)
And some shorter trips.
I am contemplating driving to Glacier this summer, not sure if I will be alone or not.
Brian
Glad to hear that. Surprising, too. But yes that’s geat.
If you have a little time and interest, about 30 miles west of Miami on Hwy 41 (The Tamiami Trail) is Buffalo Tigers Airboat Tours. For a very modest cost they take you on an airboat tour in the Everglades. Fun and interesting. They’re not the only outfit but that’s the one I took and it was good.
Just a suggestion of what you can do with all that money you $aved. Enjoy the road trip!
We took a few road trips when I was quite young. Driving from the Bay Area up as far as Victoria, BC and south as far as the border or maybe Mexico, I can’t remember. We went to Oregon a couple of times, to visit family. Not a long road trip, but still an adventure for me.
I really enjoy road trips. I wish we could go more often.
We drove to southern AZ one year to visit my sister. Did things like Arches National Park, Hoover Dam, Las Vegas on the way. Drove out to Aspen for my cousin’s wedding. A couple of trips up to Oregon. Our biggest trip was driving to TN to visit my brother a couple years ago.
Yes, so many roads, so little time.
My wife and I, we are software engineers in Silicon Valley, and many of our coworkers are from India and Pakistan and surrounds. Our company has been stable and people have been there for many years (nearly 20, for Mr. & Mrs. Bullitt, for example). With that seniority, we’ve built up vacation time, and our friends from India and Pakistan will take 3 or 4 week family vacations to go back and visit home. It’s pretty common, and maybe pretty common throughout the industry.
So one year I said to my wife and copilot, we’re from here (USA) and not from India, why don’t we take 3 or 4 weeks for our vacation and do a long road trip? So back in 2009 we did. We took almost five(!) weeks and did a road trip throughout the southwest. Our final east-most destination was Houston for Thanksgiving at my Mom’s house, where she lived then. Our entire family ended up having a reunion there that Thanksgiving, and it was great especially since Mom retired soon after, sold that house and moved to southern California. It made for some good memories of her final times in Houston
The road trip was great, just her and me and our dog. We sometimes camped in our car, whose seats fold flat to make a very comfortable double bed (1st-generation Honda CR-V, great!), and we love the wide open southwest USA. That was our first time to Big Bend.
So many roads, so little time.
When I was 18 I took a road trip with my family from Lexington Ky to Albuquerque NM. We saw St. Louis and later the Laura Ingalls Wilder home, then crossed to OK where after a bit we saw oil wells. My sister and brother were fascinated by them and my brother started yelling “There’s one at 2 o’clock.” My mother thought he meant the way the pumps stood rather than the direction one would look to see the well.
We went through Amarillo and saw the Cadillac Ranch and our first prairie dog town. Then we went to Dalhart, TX, which was ground zero for the dust bowl. Alas, we did not know that then. I did get a picture of a gas station that was abandoned somewhere in the 50’s and years later I painted pictures of it.
Then we went to Springer NM and Cimmaron, a town so small you’d miss it if you blinked, and had an airlock on a winding mountain road in Cimmaron Canyon. Realizing that anything coming around the bend wouldn’t see us till it hit us, we dragged the car off the road and yelled at people driving near us so they would slow down and steer around us.
There was another problem in Red River where as we looked for a trail we had to go over a nasty boulder ridden dirt road that ripped the underside of the car and broke our air conditioning. When we went to the only auto shop in town we discovered that the people who’d recommended that road were also the people who owned the auto shop.
We made it to Albuquerque and I started my 3rd semester there and got into my own kind of trouble. Since then I have been on other road trips, including one where due to prairie dust and a monsoon rainstorm we had 25 feet visibility and I had to tell my Dad this wasn’t the best time to drive 75 MPH.