Position: 35°10’51.4″N 103°43’34.5″W America’s answer to Timbuktu is Tucumcari, a small town in eastern New Mexico. Before Route 66 was the main road west to California, Tucumcari had already gained notoriety. Founded as a construction camp for the Rock Island …
Position: 33°19’34.1″S 25°32’41.2″E Between muggings, flat tyres, wine tasting, and elephants it’s been a heckuva week. Telling the entire story would take days, so instead here are a few highlights. Stellenbosch By the time we paid our gas pump attendant …
Position: 34°21’25″S 18°28’26″E The nagging feeling that life is too damn short had hung over our heads for weeks. “We have a month before our flight back to the States. What are we going to do?” Carol asked. “I can …
Position: 46°38’54.1″N 11°36’09.2″E Careening down a mountain road in our rental car, we reflected on the charming oddities of Italy. You see, our car was on top of a flatbed tow truck and held in place by a couple of …
Position: 46°34’12.7″N 8°25’02.9″E Here are a few highlights of our trip out of Germany, through Austria, and into Switzerland and France prior to our arrival in Chamonix. If you have never taken this journey by road, you are in for …
Position: 50°59’05.4″N 11°19’10.3″E We are in pursuit of Chamonix! I use the term pursuit lightly. Chamonix has not in fact moved. It is right where it was 1,000 years ago. However, after a lot of driving in the past week …
Position: 59°19’31.6″N 18°04’15.3″E With all roads from Ullverad leading to Stockholm that’s where we pointed our little car. Sweden, as Carol said a few times, is much bigger than you think. And much emptier. Thick forests on both sides of …
Position: 47°50’54.1″N 120°46’40.8″W We left Albuquerque and Carol’s Dad Bob in the capable hands of her older brother, Chris. Our departure met with a little trepidation on all sides, but we were confident that Bob would train Chris quickly and …
Position: 47°55’22″N 124°38’24″W Crunchy Pacific Northwest virtue signallers all drive Teslas. Every one of them. Without exception. How do I know? Because we recently rented a Tesla in order to flip off any gas guzzler we deemed unworthy of common …
