Road Trips either accomplished or planning for?

[DerekJohnson]

Had to haul my stuff from LA to Woolley after I got divorced and finally did the 1 basically all the way back up the entire coast. Loved it and great time for reflection on my life at the time. I love how shockingly empty California is basically north of SF on the coast. Fort Bragg seemed like an underrated kind of cool place but why anyone would live there now is curious.
Did Chicago to Cincinnati and back when I was 15 with my dad driving so I could watch my favorite player Reggie Miller (I was an odd kid) play in-person before he retired and my dad stopped at race tracks. My dad ate ribs while driving with my friend handing them to him.
Did Nashville to LA and then up I-5 to Woolley with my dad and his buddies The Norwegian Elvis and The Voice Mechanic to get the tour bus we take to Husky games from Nashville to home. Slept through a lot so wasn't super interesting.
@ukdawg I just got home from Scotland. My girlfriend wanted to drive from Edinburgh to Inverness and then Isle of Skye. Drove through the snow up into a mountain town for a night and was amazing but then woke up to a ton of snow the next day and couldn't make it in the supposedly 4WD rental car and the roads not plowed at all for some reasons. Barely made it back to Edinburgh alive and had to just skip the northern towns. My gf said it would be fine to do that drive in January. Is she an idiot and she shouldn't be my next ex-wife?

You hit a historically bad stretch of weather mi amigo After it snowed it went sub-freezing for a week and this country is like a giant Seattle in terms of being prepared for snow and ice. It never happens here.
In terms of listening to a woman when it comes to driving/anything mechanical you get a mulligan because it's a foreign country and you were out of your element.
Do you know why divorce is so expensive?
It's worth it!

Appreciate it and also I figured that was the case with the tires Yella. Sucked because we were in Iceland the week before in frozen temps driving through crazy shit but obviously the tires were great.
Iceland was wild because we drove like 2% of the country but saw endless sights which were otherworldly. Have done small highways and little coastal towns in Ireland too which I love. It was wild driving from Ireland to Northern Ireland on a tiny road and there's literally not even a marker that you're going from one country to another.

… and yet you didn't bother to find out what "Whack for my Daddy-O" means even though I reminded you repeatedly to ask the locals. *Sigh

 

[DerekJohnson]

the one thing missing from this thread is the dreaded UGLIEST stretch of a road trip
Mine: Leaving Arizona into New Mexico. The dust storm warnings with instructions about what to do is bad and then pulling into Lordsberg (I think that is it) - that town is 90% abandoned motels where I cut off to go into the hills on the way to Silver City, which is one of my favorite spots in NM.

I always find the Renton S-curves area to be depressing

 

[CFetters_Nacho_Lover]

the one thing missing from this thread is the dreaded UGLIEST stretch of a road trip
Mine: Leaving Arizona into New Mexico. The dust storm warnings with instructions about what to do is bad and then pulling into Lordsberg (I think that is it) - that town is 90% abandoned motels where I cut off to go into the hills on the way to Silver City, which is one of my favorite spots in NM.

I always find the Renton S-curves area to be depressing

The official motto of Renton is “ahead of the curve”.
I suggested changing it to “Renton, at least we’re not Kent”

 

[BearsWiin]

Sevilla-Tarifa-Ronda-Granada later this spring, checking out Andalucia by car, then training from Granada to Cordoba and back to Seville
Drove around Slovenia last summer
Road to Hana sucks
Was supposed to drive down 1 to Monterey today but highway is closed because of battery facility fire

 

[WoolleyDoog]

I may have asked but was so drunk the few days I was there I don't remember the answer I got on the Whack For My Daddy O thing.

 

[Tequilla]

the one thing missing from this thread is the dreaded UGLIEST stretch of a road trip
Mine: Leaving Arizona into New Mexico. The dust storm warnings with instructions about what to do is bad and then pulling into Lordsberg (I think that is it) - that town is 90% abandoned motels where I cut off to go into the hills on the way to Silver City, which is one of my favorite spots in NM.

West Texas
Mic Drop

 

[Fishpo31]

A couple weeks ago drove to Pismo Beach for my wife’s family ting. We had wanted to road trip for a while, and this was the opportunity. Left out the back door, 3 to 101, through Oly to the 5. Spent the night in Grants Pass. Stayed at the River Inn, would recommend, good breakfast, wine and beer on site. Then over to Crescent City, and down 101 to Santa Rosa for 2 nights. Wine tasting (Iron Horse strong recommend), Russian River Brewing (Pliny the Elder). I had never driven that part of 101, and it was spectacular.

Three days in Pismo, really chill. First night at a “surfer” motel, 2 at an insanely expensive resort. It was very nice, as it should have been for the price. It’s how my wife’s family rolls. We went to Avila Beach, where we honeymooned, our first trip back in 20+ years, which was cool.

We were traveling with our pup, so dog-friendly…our first stop on the way back was Red Bluff (DO NOT recommend, LOL), up the 5 to north of Grants Pass, and over to Florence for a night. Found a cool little tap room, in an old house in a neighborhood, with good food and beer. Had lunch in Newport, I hadn’t been there since depositing my DNA in the ocean off the back of a charter when I was 14. Marina was touristy, but not overwhelming. Finished with 2 nights in Seaside, Mo’s chowder, and the best hangtown fry I’ve ever had (multiples) at the Osprey Cafe, a little coffeehouse just off the beach south of downtown.
It was nice not having to need 2-3 days to recover from vacation, very relaxing trip.