QOTD: What's The Best Road Trip You've Taken?
It's vacation time around these parts -- people are shuffling in and out of our virtual offices, and yours truly will be sitting poolside half a country away from home this weekend.
I will be flying to my destination, but I've taken a few road trips in my day. Sometimes, not by choice -- parents made the call to go somewhere, we didn't fly for whatever reason, and I fired up the old Nintendo Gameboy to pass the time.
There are times to fly, and times to road trip. What's been your favorite road trip, and what were you driving?
I have a few good childhood road-trip memories -- my dad and I taking his Fox-body Mustang (not the same one I owned) across the Midwest to Cincinnati with my best friend in tow, and later to Florida for baseball spring training, just dad and I. Those stand out. So, too, does a father-son pilgrimage to Cooperstown in my mom's 1988 GMC Sierra. Side note: The baseball Hall of Fame is absolutely worth the trip.
Now it's your turn. You know what to do. Sound off below.
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Tim Healey grew up around the auto-parts business and has always had a love for cars — his parents joke his first word was “‘Vette”. Despite this, he wanted to pursue a career in sports writing but he ended up falling semi-accidentally into the automotive-journalism industry, first at Consumer Guide Automotive and later at Web2Carz.com. He also worked as an industry analyst at Mintel Group and freelanced for About.com, CarFax, Vehix.com, High Gear Media, Torque News, FutureCar.com, Cars.com, among others, and of course Vertical Scope sites such as AutoGuide.com, Off-Road.com, and HybridCars.com. He’s an urbanite and as such, doesn’t need a daily driver, but if he had one, it would be compact, sporty, and have a manual transmission.
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I follow my Uncle Jake's rules of cross-country travel: get up early, get the free hotel breakfast, get out of town before the morning rush, get off the road by six pm local time. Kids (if you have them) in the pool, dinner, sleep. Repeat until you're at your destination. He did it for many years with four kids.
My wife keeps an atlas handy and around four pm starts looking at lodging two hours down the road with her iPad. She books a room and starts looking at possible restaurants. We had one clunker hotel out of about 14 stays, found a favorite restaurant that we always stop at in Oklahoma.
Growing up we had a ford explorer and later a lincoln navigator, big comfy cars I remember visiting yellowstone. Going to grandmas house annually and my favorite cruising down the beach in the navi