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Road Trip Archive
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CC Road Trip: VW Beetle, Coast to Coast (Part 2)
Posted on July 24, 2019 | 19 CommentsI woke up on the morning of July 3rd with great anticipation, along with a hangover and dehydration from the altitude. I wandered around the vicinity of my campsite and […] -
CC Road Trip: VW Beetle, Coast to Coast (Part 1)
Posted on July 16, 2019 | 39 CommentsIn honor of the recent end of production of the Beetle, I’m going to take a break from my COAL and regale you with the road trip story of driving […] -
CC Roadtrip: The Fiddy Run – Very Small Displacement Roadtrip – Part 3
Posted on June 13, 2019 | 21 CommentsIn this concluding installment I eat a burger, a DJ plays a song, a Hell’s Angel biker gets offered a snack, and a Bentley/Lincoln hybrid is spotted. -
CC Roadtrip: The Fiddy Run – Very Small Displacement Roadtrip – Part 2
Posted on June 12, 2019 | 21 CommentsThe last episode set the stage for the Fiddy Run and in this installment we finally hit the road. Which for me meant riding a scooter for the first time […] -
CC Roadtrip: The Fiddy Run – Very Small Displacement Roadtrip – Part 1
Posted on June 11, 2019 | 21 CommentsLast summer I did a long road trip on my 250cc retro-styled motorcycle and if anyone was thinking “that is fine and good but your ride was too powerful” I […] -
Road Trip Outtake: 1939-1949(?) Diamond T Takes a Ferry Ride
Posted on May 5, 2019 | 10 CommentsAs I mentioned the other day, the road trip my son and I went on took us down Whidbey Island, where we caught the ferry to Port Townsend on the […] -
Road Trip Outtakes #2: A Gaggle of Morris Minors – No, They’re Not VWs
Posted on May 3, 2019 | 18 CommentsAfter we crossed the 7:30 PM ferry from Whidbey Island to Port Townsend on Puget Sound, we headed south looking for a place to camp. It was getting pretty dark, […] -
2019 Toronto Trip: (No) Planes, Trains and (No) Automobiles
Posted on April 20, 2019 | 35 CommentsI have two sons involved in high school band, and it’s turned out to be a pretty good gig for them. The band takes a major (fly somewhere) and a […] -
CC Road Trip/Driving Impressions (Part 3): 2018 Mercedes-AMG GT – Climb Every Mountain
Posted on December 19, 2018 | 19 CommentsIf the heavens have roads and cars to drive on them, then this was the closest taste of such a heaven I’ve experienced. For getting to drive supercar is one thing, […] -
CC Road Trip/Rental Review (Part 2): 2018 Volvo V90 Inscription T8 AWD – Trekking Across The Alps In One Sweet Swede
Posted on December 6, 2018 | 37 CommentsThe wagon. It’s a car that hasn’t found much appreciation in North America for several decades now, apart from versions jacked up several inches and laden with plastic body cladding […] -
CC Road Trip (Part 1): Ten Days Through The German, Austrian, and Italian Alps
Posted on November 26, 2018 | 39 CommentsMaterial objects certainly have their virtues, but as I’ve grown older I’ve come to value the significance of worldly experiences. Travelling has indeed become a great passion of mine […] -
CC Road Trip: Classics on the Square in Crown Point
Posted on November 8, 2018 | 25 CommentsIt was a random day in Crown Point, a town of about 27,000 in Indiana’s northwest-most county. We were there visiting one of my wife’s sisters and her husband for […] -
Roadtrip: A Seven Day 1700 Mile Loop of the Mountains and Deserts of Eastern Oregon in Our Promaster Van
Posted on October 25, 2018 | 68 CommentsMid October has been a magical time for us to be on the road. Often a high pressure builds over the whole Western US and extends into the Pacific Northwest, […] -
Road Trip Outtake: Remote Mitchell, Oregon (pop. 130) Has a Tesla Charging Station But No Gas Station – A Portend of the Future?
Posted on October 21, 2018 | 16 CommentsWe got home Friday night after a seven day tour of Eastern Oregon in the van. It was superb, exceeding our expectations every day thanks to perfect mild fall weather, […] -
Road Trip: Part 13 – Finale – 4,500km Road Trip on a 250cc Motorbike
Posted on October 4, 2018 | 22 CommentsThe lucky 13th segment marks the finale to this journey. In this installment I get rained on (no surprise), hailed on (surprise) and discover some genuine Curbside Classics in the […]
![CC Road Trip: VW Beetle, Coast to Coast (Part 2) I woke up on the morning of July 3rd with great anticipation, along with a hangover and dehydration from the altitude. I wandered around the vicinity of my campsite and […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/IMG_8298.jpg)
![CC Road Trip: VW Beetle, Coast to Coast (Part 1) In honor of the recent end of production of the Beetle, I’m going to take a break from my COAL and regale you with the road trip story of driving […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/IMG_7045.jpg)

![CC Roadtrip: The Fiddy Run – Very Small Displacement Roadtrip – Part 2 The last episode set the stage for the Fiddy Run and in this installment we finally hit the road. Which for me meant riding a scooter for the first time […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/01.jpg)
![CC Roadtrip: The Fiddy Run – Very Small Displacement Roadtrip – Part 1 Last summer I did a long road trip on my 250cc retro-styled motorcycle and if anyone was thinking “that is fine and good but your ride was too powerful” I […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/96.jpg)
![Road Trip Outtake: 1939-1949(?) Diamond T Takes a Ferry Ride As I mentioned the other day, the road trip my son and I went on took us down Whidbey Island, where we caught the ferry to Port Townsend on the […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/CC-389-056.jpg)
![Road Trip Outtakes #2: A Gaggle of Morris Minors – No, They’re Not VWs After we crossed the 7:30 PM ferry from Whidbey Island to Port Townsend on Puget Sound, we headed south looking for a place to camp. It was getting pretty dark, […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/CC-389-070.jpg)
![2019 Toronto Trip: (No) Planes, Trains and (No) Automobiles I have two sons involved in high school band, and it’s turned out to be a pretty good gig for them. The band takes a major (fly somewhere) and a […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/20190411_171450.jpg)
![CC Road Trip: Classics on the Square in Crown Point It was a random day in Crown Point, a town of about 27,000 in Indiana’s northwest-most county. We were there visiting one of my wife’s sisters and her husband for […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/vwbus3.jpg)
![Roadtrip: A Seven Day 1700 Mile Loop of the Mountains and Deserts of Eastern Oregon in Our Promaster Van Mid October has been a magical time for us to be on the road. Often a high pressure builds over the whole Western US and extends into the Pacific Northwest, […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/CC-374-106.jpg)
![Road Trip Outtake: Remote Mitchell, Oregon (pop. 130) Has a Tesla Charging Station But No Gas Station – A Portend of the Future? We got home Friday night after a seven day tour of Eastern Oregon in the van. It was superb, exceeding our expectations every day thanks to perfect mild fall weather, […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/CC-374-038.jpg)
![Road Trip: Part 13 – Finale – 4,500km Road Trip on a 250cc Motorbike The lucky 13th segment marks the finale to this journey. In this installment I get rained on (no surprise), hailed on (surprise) and discover some genuine Curbside Classics in the […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/43042678165_83a73e5672_c.jpg)


