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CC Road Trip Diary: A Middle Aged Man & His Elderly Van; Or, Sharing A Slice Of Rural America
Posted on August 4, 2023 | 47 CommentsA reluctant admission: This is my third article in a row to document various travels. Such wasn’t the intent. Where the prior two articles outlined adventures in new places, this […] -
CC Walk, Talk, and Travel: Sometimes The World Is A Static Place
Posted on July 14, 2023 | 40 CommentsSince becoming involved with CC over a decade ago, one of my observations in various travels around the United States is how the automotive environment greatly differs from region to […] -
QOTD – Summer 2023 Roadtrip Plans?
Posted on May 29, 2023 | 55 CommentsIt is said that Memorial Day marks the beginning of summer, here in the U.S. Likewise, the beginning of summer always calls forth one of those AAA press releases where […] -
Rental Review & Musings: 2023 Dodge Charger SXT — End of the Line
Posted on April 24, 2023 | 41 CommentsI hadn’t actually intended to write up this particular rental car/travel adventure. Rather, I just documented the car photographically as I do many rental cars; and I had a few […] -
CC Road Trip: Curbside Classics Up North – British Columbia And A Little Bit Of The Yukon – Part 2
Posted on November 22, 2022 | 21 CommentsIn the first instalment of our Northern British Columbia Circle route trip we visited an inland rainforest of giant cedar trees and joined the iconic Alaska Highway, stumbling across many […] -
CC Road Trip: Curbside Classics, Up North – British Columbia And A Little Bit Of The Yukon – Part 1
Posted on November 21, 2022 | 26 Comments“Up North” is a relative term, but I suspect many of us would consider the top third of British Columbia and the bottom portion of the Yukon as “up north”. […] -
CC Road Trip: Go West, 1979 Lincoln Continental Mark V
Posted on September 15, 2022 | 79 Comments(first posted 9/15/2016) The Continental Mark V has received considerable attention here as the epitome of the 1970s Brougham Era of American cars, including as “The Mayor of Brougham City” […] -
Curbside Update: Wolfie’s Rocky Romp 2022
Posted on August 31, 2022 | 12 CommentsOne of the many great things about living in Vancouver, British Columbia, is our proximity to nature. From 1990-1993, I taught school in a small town called Invermere, […] -
Curbside Classics: Items Intrigue in Stewart, BC
Posted on August 29, 2022 | 24 CommentsMy wife and I took a road trip into northern British Columbia as well as, briefly, the Yukon. One of the highlights was the small town of Stewart which featured […] -
Little Trees — Ice, Ice (Ice, Ice…and maybe one more Ice) Baby
Posted on August 15, 2022 | 37 CommentsThis collection of four, or maybe five, Black Ice car air “fresheners” got me thinking. -
The Ultimate CC Roadtrip No.2: The Wilds Of Southern Namibia In A Peugeot 404 Wagon
Posted on July 17, 2022 | 30 Comments(first posted 1/1/2013) The Queen of Sheba said about Solomon: half was not told to me. This is how I feel about my first visit to Namibia this past winter […] -
Ultimate CC Road Trip: Across Remote South Africa Via Back Roads In A 1973 Peugeot 404 Wagon
Posted on July 16, 2022 | 26 Comments(first posted 11/22/2012. It’s quite similar to our EXBRO trips, which I would do in a 404 wagon if I had one) We’ve done the paved road to Grahamstown to […] -
EXBRO6: Seven Days Overlanding In Eastern Oregon Without Encountering Another Vehicle
Posted on July 3, 2022 | 31 CommentsWant to get away from it all? Drive in spectacular scenery on remote “roads” and barely-visible tracks for seven days without encountering a single other car? Just follow the route […] -
Curbside Classic: 1962 Rambler Classic – What Have You Done To My Patina?
Posted on May 7, 2022 | 52 Comments(first posted 9/13/2013) Bellingham is a small city of about 80,000 people, located in the northwest corner of Washington State. On a recent trip there to visit an old friend, […] -
Looking Back And Hopefully Moving Forward
Posted on April 29, 2022 | 34 CommentsI haven’t been around these parts much since the start of the year. The day job has in its own way been pretty busy, and while that’s a good thing […]