Memorable Road Trips

[smokepole]

Burning Monkey (props) reminded me of the days of inexpensive gasoline and the places we used to go on pocket change.

Would anyone wish to regale us with memorable road trips they've taken?

 

[smokepole]

Redwings

Took 12 people in my 72 chevy impala to Detroit to see a Redwings game, followed up by a trip into "Greektown" for gyros and baklava.

 

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[Disgustipated]

I take two or three a year. Mostly into AZ and into the Northwest, Montana, and Wyoming.

How much canned corn does that cost ya?

 

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[smokepole]

that was you?

I take two or three a year. Mostly into AZ and into the Northwest, Montana, and Wyoming.

I think i saw you

 

[Aquagal]

If I want to get anywhere, it is considered a road trip.

 

[ms_ann_thrope]

Chicago to Key West all by myself.

 

[smokepole]

reining the thread

Getting back to the memories (ahh the mammaries...).

I remember hitting a great hatch coming off the limestone creeks around Center County Pa. drove home 6 hours that night to end up talking my buddy to return in the morning (this was pre cell-phone days). It was good enough I took that Monday off and drove the 6 hours again... it was definitely worth it.

 

[smokepole]

neighbor

If I want to get anywhere, it is considered a road trip.

Sounds like we've lived pretty close or still do (20 minutes to town). Drop me a line if you want me to pick up milk on my way home

 

[koalabear]

Visited every National Park West of the Mississippi except the ones in Washington State and Glacier, but then hasn't everyone.

 

[Disgustipated]

I think i saw you

He was the one with the underage Vietnamese girl on his lap.

 

[Aquagal]

Sounds like we've lived pretty close or still do (20 minutes to town). Drop me a line if you want me to pick up milk on my way home

Hey neighbor, surely you're coming by dog, right?

 

[smokepole]

warm up a beer

Hey neighbor, surely you're coming by dog, right?

Yep, by sled dog

 

[smokepole]

He was the one with the underage Vietnamese girl on his lap.

That was me, and I'm Phillipino dammit
-racist bunny rapist (say that 10 times fast)

 

[smokepole]

back to RT

Yellowstone is my favorite place on earth (yes, even better than Maui)!

I spent every weekend of 2000 there. The drive across the bighorns became engrained in my memory. The twists and drop in elevation would make vetteman jealous of an enhanced suspension system (till you ran up on a "bloated land slug" doing 20mph)

Cody is my number one place to move after my retirement.

 

[Comshaw]

Three motorcycles, 4 people, 5800 miles, 17 days, 18 states. From home South across Washington, though Oregon into the southwest (we rode through Utah, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado), across the Texas panhandle to Oklahoma, over to Arkansas through Missouri to Iowa with a side trip into Kansas, Nebraska And Minnesota, through South Dakota, Montana and Idaho and home. One hell of a great trip.


Comshaw

 

[thør]

I wandered over the Apache Trail today. A nice day trip with some hiking.

 

[Not Normal]

Connecticut to Illinois wit a stop over at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Garnate's place was the best I ever made.

 

[SkAoUt]

This past summer I did the Washington Backcountry Discovery Route on an 06 klr 650 (solo).

Spent 3 months driving around N.Z. in 06. Saw and dove (some muff) everything worth anything. I was driving somewhere every day so technically it was a road trip.

In 96 took a 93 klr 650 from Vancouver to Alaska and almost back (solo) before the bike was stolen in Prince Rupert.

Yeah, maybe something in orange for the next ride.

 

[smokepole]

This past summer I did the Washington Backcountry Discovery Route on an 06 klr 650 (solo).

Spent 3 months driving around N.Z. in 06. Saw and dove (some muff) everything worth anything. I was driving somewhere every day so technically it was a road trip.

In 96 took a 93 klr 650 from Vancouver to Alaska and almost back (solo) before the bike was stolen in Prince Rupert.

Yeah, maybe something in orange for the next ride.

Highway 1 north out of Vancouver is one of the most scenic drives I've ever seen! "Sea to Sky highway" I believe they call it. Quite spectacular, I can only imagine it on two wheels (my road bike days are over). Maybe by horse after Russia nukes everyone else. (sorry about getting off topic)


Crossed the I-90 corridor 7 times going to the parents' for Christmas and such between Ohio and Montana. I could do Cleveland to Gillette in 36 hours before needing some sleep. Billings to Kalispell was about 10 hours alone (amazing how BIG Montana really is E-W). The heartland of America is awesome!

 

[RightFootFrwrd]

I took the 101 down the USA West Coast with my girlfriend and two friends of ours. We rented ATVs and ripped around in the Oregon sand dunes, then went through San Francisco and LA, then over to Las Vegas before heading up the I-5 to go home.

Life Lesson: Don't go out clubbing in Vegas 'till 5am, throwing back tequila shots, when checkout is 10am and your car is black w/o any form of air conditioning... unless you want the worst ride of your life through the Mojave Desert.

 

[Hypoxia]

We drove from southern Arizona to Central America to central California; switched vehicles, from SUV to RV; then to Alaska to southern Arizona and back to central California, a five-month drive. Life lesson: If you see a roadblock ahead but no military or police vehicles, make a u-turn.

 

[albertaboy]

A couple of years ago my wife and I took three weeks off and drove from Edmonton, Alberta to Palm Springs, Ca.

Great trip, beautiful drive for about 1500km of it at least.

 

[oggbashan]

With my parents:

Through Southern Spain in the early 1950s on dirt roads where there are now Freeways, up into the mountains to Ronda with a sheer drop and no barriers, and to Seville. Most other traffic was horse or donkey powered.

In early 1960s:

From Sydney north to Queensland along the coast, returning inland to see agricultural relations.

From Melbourne to Sydney on coastal highway and return via Canberra, dirt roads much of the time.

From Melbourne, Victoria, Australia to Adelaide, South Australia and return, again mainly on dirt roads.

With me driving in the 1960s:

Much of England and Wales in ancient worn-out vehicles.

Recent years:

France: Coastal road from Calais to Boulogne frequently.
Normandy and D-Day Beaches several times.
Paris several times including driving around L'Arc De Triumphe in the Paris Rush Hour, through Montmartre and L'Isle De La Citie. Hint - if you have British numberplates and a large car, just drive and everyone else will get out of the way of the 'mad Englishman'. Ignore abuse... It's all French to me.

Best experience: Finding out that I could park my car INSIDE the gardens of Versailles, paying a much lower rate than outside in the town of Versailles, and could drive from the Chateau to the Trianons and the lake when other people were paying real money to hire electric buggies.

Through Belgium in a couple of hours to Holland. Around Holland when the Bulbfields were in flower.