With summer ending and the temps cooling it is fast approaching road trip time. It does not matter where you live, there are places to spend the day a weakend or week taking your time and checking out the country.
Let my know some routes and experiences. Easy trips that bring sanity back and help you focus a little better.
Oh, I know gas is high but shoot prius people are driving nowhere just to see how few gallons they can use getting there.
I road trip all the time all my life. My nickname, which I wear proudly, is El Driftero.
I am the reincarnation of Neal Cassady driving Jack Kerouac back and forth across country in a methamphetamine haze, except my haze is permanent: nowadays I use caffeine only and my only passenger is my merry self.
My current favorite route is a stretch of road in the hill country outside Austin,Texas, Ranch Road 163 I think its called, it starts just west of Dripping Springs and ends up on the outskirts of Blanco after crossing the clear blue Blanco River as it carves its way through the limestone bluffs that are the spine of Texas running from West of San Antonio all the way up to the Red River and into Oklahoma.
Sometimes at night, you see the far off blasts of lightening, deer scampering in front of you and armadilloes feeding on the side of the road, and you start to wonder how anybody can ever really hate Texas?
I do not like cities but had to live in one for a while . I found myself watering and feeding a flower that grew in a sidewalk crack. That is what I want, you can find peace in the strangest places, yes even Texas
I found myself watering and feeding a flower that grew in a sidewalk crack.
I love this. I did essentially the same for a weed that decided to grow in my tiny apartment patio. Or, at least I think it was a weed, only it seemed well on it’s way to becoming a tree before the apartment owners tented the buildings for termites and killed it.
so tell me about your road trips
My daughter and I did a 3 week road trip from Seattle through the southwest in a ’67 VW Bug during high summer. We had that little car loaded perfectly with camping gear and all the rest. She had her learner’s permit. We shared the driving, freeways to Utah, then the blue roads, then the dirt roads. Were run off of Dead Horse Mesa by a thunderstorm and spent the night in a motel watching Star Trek and eating M&Ms. Outside of Moab the windshield wiper motor died in another thunderstorm. We waited out the storm under an overpass with a guy on a Harley. A couple of days later in the high Colorado country watched a funnel cloud form alongside of us – both of us in total denial. “Ya know, if I didn’t know that tornadoes don’t happen here, I’d swear that was a tornado.” Watched it form and and then disappear as it smooshed into the foothills. Solstice at Hovenweep, Anastasi ruins in southwestern Colorado, the dusk sky a dizzying bowl above us. Breaking camp the next morning the wind caught our tent and tumbled it into a ravine. We stood above it and laughed, then clambered down and retrieved it. Three days at Chaco Canyon, hunkering down in the shade of the canyon during the heat of the day, walking for miles at dawn and wondering about the people who used to live there, not ever wanting to leave. The car rebelling outside of Window Rock, “too hot!”, and going into vapor lock. The Navaho family who towed us back into Window Rock with their pickup truck, the bed filled with laughing children, the father fixing the problem by blowing into the gas tank through a garden hose stuffed through an old T-shirt. Our first shower in Gallup, the sediment of days in the back country running ochre in the bottom of the tub. The folks in a caravan of classic cars adopting us as we headed home, our filthy blue VW Bug surrounded by shiny hotrods. And the sudden awkwardness , dropping my daughter off at her apartment when it was all over. “Well, ‘bye then. I’ll call you tomorrow”. And the too quiet drive home.
For our family, road trips across the USA have become not only a way to travel, but also a special way to get closer and create unforgettable memories.
First of all, the freedom to choose the route plays an important role. We can freely choose the places we want to visit, which gives us the opportunity to discover unknown landscapes, natural wonders and small towns. Another important part of our road adventures is choosing a good van on the click here website for the trip, which we usually rent. This gives us even more options and comfort when travelling