Great Drives
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Cross-Country Drive Day 3 – From the Grand Canyon to Amarillo, Texas
More Details: Cross-Country Drive Day 3 – From the Grand Canyon to Amarillo, TexasA brief summary of day 3 of my cross-country drive: Grand Canyon to Amarillo, Texas, begins with the stats! Stats of the drive Third day: Grand Canyon National Park (GCNP) in Arizona to Amarillo, Texas Routes taken: Route 64 (south) to I-40 east, crossing New Mexico Departure time: 6:20AM (Pacific time in Arizona) Arrival time: 7:20PM (Central…
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Cross-Country Drive Day 2 – Kingman to the Grand Canyon
More Details: Cross-Country Drive Day 2 – Kingman to the Grand CanyonCross-country drive starts in San Jose, California and crosses the southeastern part of the state including Barstow and hot Needles, California.
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Great Drive Series – St. Ignatius to St. Regis, Montana
More Details: Great Drive Series – St. Ignatius to St. Regis, MontanaWhile exploring northwest Montana with a friend this past September, we tried to chart different routes as we covered a loop over a 4-day visit to the area. We started in and finished in Spokane but wanted to minimize taking the same route twice. We succeeded in that effort save for the stretch on the…
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3 Places to See in the Remote Corners of Idaho and Montana
More Details: 3 Places to See in the Remote Corners of Idaho and MontanaUp in the panhandle of Idaho and the northwest corner of Montana, there is some spectacular, largely unspoiled scenery. I imagine not many get to see these lands as people focus on Coeur d’Alene, Big Sky or Glacier Mountain National Park. Well, it may make sense that they focus on those places but, if you have the…
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Great Drive Series – 17-Mile Drive in California
More Details: Great Drive Series – 17-Mile Drive in CaliforniaI have been to San Francisco once or twice for very short visits but have not gone further south than the airport – on this trip I would get to do the 17-mile drive near Monterey and see famous Pebble Beach. I coupled a short business trip to San Fran with a visit to friends…
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Great Drive Series – Along the Columbia River in Oregon
More Details: Great Drive Series – Along the Columbia River in OregonOregon has been a place I have always been wanting to go. When the opportunity to go on a business trip to Portland arose, I was thrilled. Though I was not able to append a weekend on either end of the business trip to get to explore more, I did have a Sunday afternoon and…
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Great Drive Series – A Switzerland Sampler
More Details: Great Drive Series – A Switzerland SamplerWhen I worked in Paris many moons ago for 6 months, one of the neat weekend trips I took was a rather rushed visit to Switzerland. More than anything, we just wanted to leave France. Having visited Heidelberg and worked in The Netherlands during that period, we opted to go south: Switzerland (or Schweiz or…
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Great Drives Series – Around Bordeaux
More Details: Great Drives Series – Around BordeauxI have done a couple of trips into Bordeaux where I have explored the region by car. There really is no better way to explore the diversity of the region (and its wines!), which may seem at first to be more homogenous than it actually is. To venture inland, near where Bordeaux runs into the…
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Great Drive Series – Frankfurt to Maastricht
More Details: Great Drive Series – Frankfurt to MaastrichtAmong the many ways to travel and explore, few things beat driving around yourself, whether it be Tuscany, New Zealand or across the U.S., there is a freedom that comes with being on your own, able to stop at will for a photo, to rest or… to relief yourself (yes, I said it …). I…