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TRAVEL PLANNING IN ADVANCE

May 20, 2024 by

Travel planning began a year ago, unbeknownst to me. A couple we know had taken a cruise and were ready for their next adventure. Turns out these people are more adventurous than most, with a passion for learning new things. We had connected through yard-bragging one evening at Andina in NW Portland before a Portland […]

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DEAREST ENGLAND LOVE LETTER # 1

May 17, 2024 by

Dearest England Highway Department, Congratulations on providing drivers with the most puzzling highways in the world as I know it, which isn’t saying much but maybe just enough. My neighbor said he was traveling to Scotland; I asked him if he’s renting a car. “No. I wouldn’t try driving there,” or something. He’s not renting […]

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TOYOTA HIGHLANDER FOR LIFE?

April 18, 2024 by

I owned a Toyota Highlander, but it didn’t start that way. Somehow the wife and I went to a car dealership traded a van and ended up with a Rav4. She decided it was the worst car ever since I insisted on the barebones cheapest version. By the time we got home I knew it […]

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DRIVING LESSONS FOR THE WORRIED ROAD WARRIOR

October 24, 2023 by

These driving lessons are for you, not your car. But you worry about your car? So do I. Just remember, part of travel is mingling with the locals along your fellow drivers. And their cars.

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WORST SELFIE REGRET SO FAR

October 18, 2023 by

This roadside attraction is called Forrest Gump Hill. Why? Then it hit me. I pulled over after dodging people taking pictures in the middle of the road like this was a movie set not the fast road out of Monument Valley. I’d already been on the slow road.

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MONUMENT ROAD? HOLD TIGHT

October 17, 2023 by

Monument Road, or the road around Monument Valley, isn’t the worst road I’ve been on. But it is the longest bad road. How bad? Was it the bad road, or the bad driver? I was driving; then I wasn’t.

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