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Today’s question:
Let’s have a little fun today.
Imagine this….You have a new car, unlimited gas for a week, a week off work and unlimited money to spend on your roadtrip.
Where would you go, and why?
Talk about it….
Only a week? That’s not much time, so I’d keep it in California and go somewhere warm. The Mojave Desert and Death Valley are really nice this time of year, and there’s nothing like being out in the middle of nowhere when nobody else is around.
To find a new place to live that is NOT in California…
Alaska – never been there – wide open spaces – beautiful as I understand it…
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Pretty much anywhere outside of California. But not Oregon or Washington. Top picks, Idaho, Montana, Texas.
Las Vegas. Just to walk the main street where all the outdoor decor is located. It has changed so much since the last time I was able to do that.
Unlimited money…? I’d hire a mad scientist time traveler and pay 500 million to make a warp machine and go to a different dimension where politics don’t exist
Assuming the new car is someone else’s and I return it at the end and fly back, I would go south through Texas to get to New Orleans, stopping by a desert and Austin on the way. If I have to take relatives, I’d only go as far as the nearest Starbucks.
olive garden
For me, I enjoy living life on the edge so I would start off in Oakland taking in the rich culture and diverse communities. I would then proceed to Richmond and get lost in wonderful immigrant communities sampling the many fine culinary delights. I would then end my day crossing the bridge into one of my favorite cities of Vallejo. A former city that hosted a great military community is now transitioning over to a place where families are first and the nightlife is second to none.
In anticipation of your Oakland adventure, a very recently published YouTube tour is fun and the comments are a hoot. Just the first 10 minutes or so are all you need and the rest is repetitive: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHixc-QAhZQ
For your tours of “diverse communities” of oakland and richmond do so driving a detailed out, mint looking, 1996 Impala SS.
Take note of eye balls tracking the vehicle.
Rich Culture and Diverse Communities equal violence as 2021 statistics demonstrate quite clearly. People like London, Libby, and Gavin embrace lawlessness as an important element of the Bay Area experience. Bonus points for driving through these areas in a convertible after dark.
I’d drive to the airport because there is no bridge to Hawaii.
True, But there are interstate highways.
If I am going to live the fantasy, I would drive to Arizona to buy my souvenir house, then to Wyoming and buy a souvenir plot of 40 acres there.
We would do a road trip to Colorado to see our daughter & her hubby. Along the way pass, through a few States to enjoy the views, and maybe buy a house in one of those States.
Unlimited money and unlimited gas, and just
one week, kind of limits the possibilities. Before COVID l had planned a trip to Grand Tetons and Yellowstone, but can’t do it in a week. So limited to California, probably Mt. Shasta, have been by it, but not spend much time there, or Mt. Lassen never been there, would stay on an expensive houseboat. Have been to Yosemite many times, never get tired of it. Would be fun to stay at the Ahwahnee.
You can do it in a week, though 8 days would be better. We did it a few years ago, and included about a 600 mile “detour” via Cedar City Utah, Vail, Colorado Springs and then to Mt. Rushmore, then Yellowstone and the Tetons. It took us 11 days and a little over 4,000 miles, but it’s only a two day drive each way to the Tetons and Yellowstone (which are about 2 hours apart).
Go for it!
I recently had 2 weeks off………..I stayed home.
Palm Springs
The Canadian Rockies and the Icefields Parkway between Banff and Jasper. We went there 10 years ago and it was the most beautiful place we had ever been until we cruised Norway. We plan to go back to the Canadian Rockies, and I have some other road trips in the planning stages, all 3-4 weeks long. They include New Zealand, the Swiss and Italian Alps and another one around Italy. I’ve also mapped one out that is around 4 weeks that goes to and from the east coast, 25 states and one Canadian Province and does it all without getting on an interstate, about 7,500 miles. It goes a somewhat southern route, as far south as Oklahoma and Arkansas and then heads north as far as Vermont and across the northern US.
Napa. And go to the French Laundry restaurant. Peasants stay home