Mar 9th, 2009 at 8:00AM: Australian newspaper The Age has put together a list of five of the top drives from around the world. These scenic byways encourage drivers to get behind the wheel, explore, and, as the article says, take the long way home. Some of the roads that make this exclusive list include the Hana Highway in Hawaii, which is lauded for its 80km of winding road, that includes 56 one lane bridges, that ...Click on a label to read posts from that part of the world.
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Five Great Road Trips From Around The World
Mar 9th, 2009 at 8:00AM: Australian newspaper The Age has put together a list of five of the top drives from around the world. These scenic byways encourage drivers to get behind the wheel, explore, and, as the article says, take the long way home. Some of the roads that make this exclusive list include the Hana Highway in Hawaii, which is lauded for its 80km of winding road, that includes 56 one lane bridges, that ...Great American Road Trip: Travel books for the road. 1 of 4: Sun After Dark
Aug 5th, 2008 at 10:30AM: I'm one of those people who haul books when I travel. I am ambitious, imagining hours of page turning. Usually, though, I barely crack a book. One advantage of riding in a car across a good portion of the United States, as I have recently experienced on my family's road trip to Montana, is the hours for reading.
There are miles and miles and miles between Ohio and Montana, particularly if you ...Talking travel with professional RV roadtripper Adelle Milavsky
Jul 24th, 2008 at 9:00AM: Adelle and Ron Milavsky, a lovely retired couple who live in Connecticut, have been road-tripping across Europe for years. They've written the definitive guide on RV trips, Take Your RV to Europe: The Low-Cost Route to Long-Term Touring and now here to share a few more tips about this rather under-rated method of travel. You recently came back from yet another RV roadtrip through Europe. Tell us a ...Great American Road Trip: St. Cloud, Minnesota, yak meat and Hoopers' Christmas Tree Farm
Jul 16th, 2008 at 9:30AM: When we pulled into the driveway of our friends' house in St. Cloud, Minnesota, as part of our Great American Road trip to Montana, we didn't have any plans except to visit. The last time we saw them was at our house in Columbus, and since then they had moved from State College, Pennsylvania to St. Cloud.
As with any visit, there's always something new to find out. about the town where friends ...Great American Road Trip: More road kill woes and how to clean a car
Jul 15th, 2008 at 10:30AM: The first mishap was when we nailed a possum in Illinois east of Chicago the first night of our road trip to Montana. The critter was lumbering across the interstate about 10:30 p.m. That was a sad moment.
Thursday, driving to and from Regent, North Dakota we had several sad moments. Honestly, there are some things that can't be avoided.
I already posted about the two pheasants we hit. The ...Great American road trip: Wisconsin curds and Georgia O'Keefe
Jul 11th, 2008 at 10:30AM: Even when whizzing through a state on the way to somewhere else, it's possible to make observations. One can discover something new or remember a detail known, but forgotten.
As I am writing this, we are whizzing through Wisconsin on our way to Minneapolis after a night at La Quinta Inn in Madison. This is one leg of our road trip to Montana. No time on this leg for stops--except to pee and fill ...Hedge your gasoline purchases with MyGallons
Jul 2nd, 2008 at 8:00AM: I was JUST thinking about this on the ride in this morning when I passed the Shell station at the corner of Platt and Ellsworth when I saw regular fuel at $4.25 a gallon: "Man, I wish I could buy gas at today's price tomorrow". That's basically what oil futures are: speculators decide that they think the price of oil is going to rise, invest in futures and watch their money go through the roof. ...3 men, 1 van and 48 states in less than 120 hours
May 7th, 2008 at 1:20PM: This morning, when there was one woman (me) in one car (a Toyota Corolla) going along 3 streets in 5 minutes on my way to teach a class, I heard about these 3 guys who are in a car traveling this week to all 48 states in the continental U.S. They're not traveling through each state, but are at least crossing borders to say they've been in each one.
One of the guys, Joshua Keeler, was being ...Another reason why flying is frustrating and driving is a plus
Apr 20th, 2008 at 4:30PM: When I lived in Albuquerque, going to New York to visit family meant flying there. It's too far to drive for a quick trip. Then, when I moved to Singapore from Albuquerque, flying was a definite must. The first time I visited New York after moving to Ohio, my brother asked me in a phone conversation, "So what time is your flight?"
'We're driving," I said.
"Oh, that's right. It seems weird that ...Trip to and from a funeral: White knuckle road
Dec 13th, 2007 at 3:30PM: We've written posts about dastardly roads before. (Martha's, Justin's , Willy's, Mine) Many are windy, narrow ones that snake around mountains. One of my worst stretches of road, I've decided is I-75 between Lexington, Kentucky and Cincinnati, Ohio. I drove along a several mile unlit portion of the highway after dark, not once but twice (!)this past weekend.
A relative of mine died earlier in ...Drive Along US 90: Seattle to Philipsburg
Aug 3rd, 2007 at 9:48AM: The drive from Seattle, Washington to Philipsburg, Montana is one that takes you through the Cascade Mountains and past expansive fields of crops being watered by elaborate watering systems that keep the landscape green where, around the green, the dryness is startling.
As we traveled the ten hours it took last Friday to get from Point A (our friends' house outside Seattle) to Point B (our ...Quick Road Trip: Washington, D.C. Part One
Jul 27th, 2007 at 9:39AM: As I struck out for Washington, D.C. two Thursdays ago today with my 14 year-old daughter and her best friend settled into the back seat of our car with their array of pillows, snack foods, MP3 player, head phones, Map Quest directions and who knows what else --there was so much back there, I felt that sense of freedom and adventure that gives me an energy boost.
I knew we were heading to ...A Sunday Drive: Flowers, Highways and Lady Bird Johnson
Jul 22nd, 2007 at 10:39AM: "We are obligated to leave the country as good if not better than we found it."
-- Lady Bird Johnson
When I drive along a highway and see bursts of wildflowers along berms and meridians, I think of Lady Bird Johnson. That's the actual truth. I figured that Lady Bird Johnson, wife of former U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson, who died last week at the age of 94 needed a Gadling post in her honor ...GADLING'S TAKE FIVE: Week of July 15
Jul 20th, 2007 at 10:59PM: Here we are again at another weeks end. As quirky as we are at times it seems there are still many good practical pickings out there to explore. If you need tips to arrive alive or help in a travel insurance purchase check out some of these. Oh, and if you need someone to do the sight-seeing for you we've found a little something in that department too. 5. Americano To Go (Away from Forbidden ...Plugged In or Tuned Out in Amish Country
Jun 24th, 2007 at 11:22AM: Once, when I was about ten years old, my grandparents came to visit my family in State College, Pennsylvania where we lived. Afterwards, they brought my brother and me back to their house in Dayton, Kentucky right across the river from Cincinnati. They were excited to take us on a side trip through Amish country on the way.
Since the oldest settlement of Amish in the United States is in ...Weird Campers, Unusual RVs, and Other Bizarre Rolling Rooms
Jun 19th, 2007 at 10:55AM: Hotels are nice. Motels are cheap. Earth ships are, well, you know earthy. But for real travelers -- the wanderers with a lust for wheels -- there's nothing more intoxicating than traveling the countryside in a camper.
Watching the scenery glide past; getting a sunburn on the arm hanging out the window; reveling in the freedom to stop anydamnwhere you please...ahhh, this is when traveling ...The World's Messiest Cars
May 25th, 2007 at 8:30AM:
You know that feeling you get after a long road trip? You pull into the driveway, finally home, and look around your car to see that every consumable product you've touched over the course of the trip is strewn about your car -- empty soda cans, bags of half-eaten chips, fast food sacks filled with trash. The owners of the cars in this photo collection have been on a perpetual road trip, where ...Sudden Journeys
May 12th, 2007 at 1:03PM: Impromptu trips. Spur-of-the-moment vacations. Whatever you want to call them, the spontaneous "We're going right now!" adventures are almost always the most memorable, most enjoyable, and most freeing. National Geographic's excellent Traveler magazine recently collected a number of last-minute "let's go!"'s from notable travel writers, including Pico Iyer -- who enjoyed a short jaunt to Bhutan ...Rock Music Makes You a Bad Driver
Apr 12th, 2007 at 2:21PM: One thing I love to do when I'm heading down open highway on some cross-country trip, is crank up the classic rock. You know, the really good stuff -- like Bruce Springsteen or Guns N Roses.
Apparently I'm not alone. As promotion for for the release of racing videogame called "Burnout Dominator," Electronic Arts and AOL have asked voters to choose their favorite driving music, and out of 1,700 ...21 (+3) Tips For Getting Kids Excited About Travel
Mar 8th, 2007 at 3:55PM:
Last week, we offered several keeping-kids-on-road-trips-happy ideas, including printable car activities and a car trip check list. Having no kids myself, I thought these tips would be plenty.
Unfortunately, blogger Wendy Perrin called us out on it, claiming that our tips "just don't work" for her kids. Consequently, we thought we'd try to scrounge up a few other ideas for parents looking to ...
