Road Trips either accomplished or planning for?
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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?
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4WD with shit tires ain’t worth a shit in snow and ice.
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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!
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We drove to to the White Cliffs of Dover from London and took a ferry to France and then a bus to Paris. The Chunnel was under construction
On the bus back from Paris to the landing craft to invade back to London we got boarded by French police with dogs. They went through the bus and someone got popped.
My wife turned to me and said I'm glad you left the hash in London.
Uhhh yeah that's the ticket. Man I got an earful. She goes I couldn't even tell you were worried. That's the idea and why being a sociopath can come in handy
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@RaceBannon starring in Midnight Express II would have been entertaining.
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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.
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Northern Ireland is by far the most interesting and favorite place the Throbber has ever travelled.
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Really? We only had a few hours there and drove from the country in Ireland through there to Belfast and back. Belfast seemed pretty plain. The country was cool but the same as Ireland. I know the coast up there is supposed to be cool.
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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.
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… 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
