Road trips around the world (long & short)
Road trips around the world (long & short)
@clutchcargo got me thinking on another thread about deathtraps in Cambodia on the roads, and it reminded me of a question I'd like to ask the wide variety of folks here ...
Can you name your favourite drives/rides (please qualify which..) are your favourite, or would recommend to another driver/rider for sheer driving/riding pleasure, views, experience, etc?
I first thought about it watching one of the Grand Tour episodes where Richard Hammond suggests they don't take one of the main roads through Scotland, but instead a back road that used to be the main road - it was stunning, and basically desolate with amazing scenery- my idea of a perfect ride/drive.
I have not done this trip that takes in all of the major USA monuments, but it is on my menu - and I can't decide yet whether to do it on a cruiser, or just some cadillac with the top down - or switch cars in each state ranging from motorhome to lambo! All I know it, I'm gonna do it ..
So, we have Aussies, Septics, Nigerians, heck, even the French here - so name your favourite routes where you can have a good 1h+ ride/drive, or maybe even a full on road trip.
Can you name your favourite drives/rides (please qualify which..) are your favourite, or would recommend to another driver/rider for sheer driving/riding pleasure, views, experience, etc?
I first thought about it watching one of the Grand Tour episodes where Richard Hammond suggests they don't take one of the main roads through Scotland, but instead a back road that used to be the main road - it was stunning, and basically desolate with amazing scenery- my idea of a perfect ride/drive.
I have not done this trip that takes in all of the major USA monuments, but it is on my menu - and I can't decide yet whether to do it on a cruiser, or just some cadillac with the top down - or switch cars in each state ranging from motorhome to lambo! All I know it, I'm gonna do it ..
So, we have Aussies, Septics, Nigerians, heck, even the French here - so name your favourite routes where you can have a good 1h+ ride/drive, or maybe even a full on road trip.
Meum est propositum in taberna mori,
ut sint Guinness proxima morientis ori.
tunc cantabunt letius angelorum chori:
"Sit Deus propitius huic potatori."
ut sint Guinness proxima morientis ori.
tunc cantabunt letius angelorum chori:
"Sit Deus propitius huic potatori."
Re: Road trips around the world (long & short)
I am planning since 2019 to do the roadtip from belgium to Phnom Penh, originally start planned in august 21 (in 2 months) to arrive near Newyear in Phnom Penh !! And have a drink at Harrys while my car parked in front of it !! I will do that, for sure, the question is when, but i keep the faitht will be possible soon !! Going by the balkans-turkey-iran-pakistan-india-myanmar-thai !! And coming back by Lao-China-Kazachstan-Russia-LT-PL-D.
Du to the problems in Myanmar i could maybe do it in the oppsite direction !! Who offers me a big beer if parked in front of Harrys ??
Du to the problems in Myanmar i could maybe do it in the oppsite direction !! Who offers me a big beer if parked in front of Harrys ??
Re: Road trips around the world (long & short)
I did a cross country trip for 25 days that covered most of the 50 states, covered the lower 48 in my life. One note, ill give a thumbs up to the USA highway system for being much faster than that of other countries, then again the USA is big so it takes awhile to get from A to B. One could easily cover 500 miles or 550 miles in a day if one doesnt mind driving days. Your map seems about right to get a good cross section of the USA but it really depends on your interests.Spigzy wrote: ↑Sun May 30, 2021 2:57 pm @clutchcargo got me thinking on another thread about deathtraps in Cambodia on the roads, and it reminded me of a question I'd like to ask the wide variety of folks here ...
Can you name your favourite drives/rides (please qualify which..) are your favourite, or would recommend to another driver/rider for sheer driving/riding pleasure, views, experience, etc?
I first thought about it watching one of the Grand Tour episodes where Richard Hammond suggests they don't take one of the main roads through Scotland, but instead a back road that used to be the main road - it was stunning, and basically desolate with amazing scenery- my idea of a perfect ride/drive.
I have not done this trip that takes in all of the major USA monuments, but it is on my menu - and I can't decide yet whether to do it on a cruiser, or just some cadillac with the top down - or switch cars in each state ranging from motorhome to lambo! All I know it, I'm gonna do it ..
So, we have Aussies, Septics, Nigerians, heck, even the French here - so name your favourite routes where you can have a good 1h+ ride/drive, or maybe even a full on road trip.
- Username Taken
- Raven
- Posts: 13945
- Joined: Mon May 19, 2014 6:53 pm
- Reputation: 6019
Re: Road trips around the world (long & short)
Crossing Australia's Nullabor Plain is well worth a couple of days of your time, even if it's just to say you've done it.
A nice drive in Oz would probably be the Great Ocean Road along Victoria's coast from Geelong to the South Australian border.
A nice drive in Oz would probably be the Great Ocean Road along Victoria's coast from Geelong to the South Australian border.
- phuketrichard
- Expatriate
- Posts: 16889
- Joined: Wed May 14, 2014 5:17 pm
- Reputation: 5786
- Location: Atlantis
Re: Road trips around the world (long & short)
road trips? dam to many to mention and cant say one is better than another, each had its ups and downs
Been doing road trips since i was 16 from dc to sf, shortest was 44 hours one way, longest was 4 months on the road
Once dc up to Canada and all the way across to Vancouver-sf-back to dc thru the south
Many many times from dc to Key west and back
Thru Europe by camper van; Amsterdam- Belgium-France-Spain- Morocco- Spain- France -Italy ferry to Greece and than back to Amsterdam 1972
Bicycle tour that included; Thailand, India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, ( an incredible country on a bicycle) Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Australia and Tahiti lasting 18 months before i returned back to the states 1982/83
did 3 road trips from Phuket up thru Northern Thailand into Laos -Cambodia and back to phuket. There on my photo site
and a few trips just phuket-Kep
Have done 2 motorcycle trips thru Burma ( also on my website)
I love road trips
Been doing road trips since i was 16 from dc to sf, shortest was 44 hours one way, longest was 4 months on the road
Once dc up to Canada and all the way across to Vancouver-sf-back to dc thru the south
Many many times from dc to Key west and back
Thru Europe by camper van; Amsterdam- Belgium-France-Spain- Morocco- Spain- France -Italy ferry to Greece and than back to Amsterdam 1972
Bicycle tour that included; Thailand, India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, ( an incredible country on a bicycle) Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Australia and Tahiti lasting 18 months before i returned back to the states 1982/83
did 3 road trips from Phuket up thru Northern Thailand into Laos -Cambodia and back to phuket. There on my photo site
and a few trips just phuket-Kep
Have done 2 motorcycle trips thru Burma ( also on my website)
I love road trips
In a nation run by swine, all pigs are upward-mobile and the rest of us are fucked until we can put our acts together: not necessarily to win, but mainly to keep from losing completely. HST
Re: Road trips around the world (long & short)
Yes, but which was the most memorable? Which would you say to another "you have to do that road at least once in your life"?phuketrichard wrote: ↑Sun May 30, 2021 3:49 pm road trips? dam to many to mention and cant say one is better than another, each had its ups and downs
Been doing road trips since i was 16 from dc to sf, shortest was 44 hours one way, longest was 4 months on the road
Once dc up to Canada and all the way across to Vancouver-sf-back to dc thru the south
Many many times from dc to Key west and back
Thru Europe by camper van; Amsterdam- Belgium-France-Spain- Morocco- Spain- France -Italy ferry to Greece and than back to Amsterdam 1972
Bicycle tour that included; Thailand, India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, ( an incredible country on a bicycle) Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Australia and Tahiti lasting 18 months before i returned back to the states 1982/83
did 3 road trips from Phuket up thru Northern Thailand into Laos -Cambodia and back to phuket. There on my photo site
and a few trips just phuket-Kep
Have done 2 motorcycle trips thru Burma ( also on my website)
I love road trips
Bicycle or EV trips don't count - this one is for the petrolheads who'd prefer the hum of a V8 to turning on the radio.. for hours
Meum est propositum in taberna mori,
ut sint Guinness proxima morientis ori.
tunc cantabunt letius angelorum chori:
"Sit Deus propitius huic potatori."
ut sint Guinness proxima morientis ori.
tunc cantabunt letius angelorum chori:
"Sit Deus propitius huic potatori."
Re: Road trips around the world (long & short)
Septic?........ah, that must be septic-tank / Yank.......some more of that brilliantly hilarious Brit humor.
I love being called a septic tank and then asked for input on a thread.
What should we call your kind Spigzy? Pantywaist tosser doesn't translate into cockney rhyming slang.
Anyway, the Pacific Coast Highway / State route 1, is/was a stunning and highly recommended road trip up the entire West coast of California.
- tightenupvolume1
- Expatriate
- Posts: 2059
- Joined: Sat Mar 25, 2017 10:29 pm
- Reputation: 880
- Location: london
Re: Road trips around the world (long & short)
You missed out the overland hippy trail trip you took Europe to India You have said that you done that trip several times ?phuketrichard wrote: ↑Sun May 30, 2021 3:49 pm road trips? dam to many to mention and cant say one is better than another, each had its ups and downs
Been doing road trips since i was 16 from dc to sf, shortest was 44 hours one way, longest was 4 months on the road
Once dc up to Canada and all the way across to Vancouver-sf-back to dc thru the south
Many many times from dc to Key west and back
Thru Europe by camper van; Amsterdam- Belgium-France-Spain- Morocco- Spain- France -Italy ferry to Greece and than back to Amsterdam 1972
Bicycle tour that included; Thailand, India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, ( an incredible country on a bicycle) Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Australia and Tahiti lasting 18 months before i returned back to the states 1982/83
did 3 road trips from Phuket up thru Northern Thailand into Laos -Cambodia and back to phuket. There on my photo site
and a few trips just phuket-Kep
Have done 2 motorcycle trips thru Burma ( also on my website)
I love road trips
- Captain Bonez
- Baked
- Posts: 1180
- Joined: Sat Jul 26, 2014 6:44 pm
- Reputation: 1120
- Location: La-Z-Boy
Re: Road trips around the world (long & short)
It's kinda funny because for the amount you post 'Triggered Gifs' at other people, you are literally the queen of getting triggered around here whenever anyone mentions the slightest thing about the USA that rustles your jimmies. The ironing is fucking deliciousBrody wrote: ↑Sun May 30, 2021 5:47 pmSeptic?........ah, that must be septic-tank / Yank.......some more of that brilliantly hilarious Brit humor.
I love being called a septic tank and then asked for input on a thread.
What should we call your kind Spigzy? Pantywaist tosser doesn't translate into cockney rhyming slang.
If you enjoy noise pollution and obnoxious driving practices, Phnom Penh is the place for you!
This.
This.
- phuketrichard
- Expatriate
- Posts: 16889
- Joined: Wed May 14, 2014 5:17 pm
- Reputation: 5786
- Location: Atlantis
Re: Road trips around the world (long & short)
did it once with various means and once with the magic bus as the "onboard guide"tightenupvolume1 wrote: ↑Sun May 30, 2021 5:59 pmYou missed out the overland hippy trail trip you took Europe to India You have said that you done that trip several times ?phuketrichard wrote: ↑Sun May 30, 2021 3:49 pm road trips? dam to many to mention and cant say one is better than another, each had its ups and downs
Been doing road trips since i was 16 from dc to sf, shortest was 44 hours one way, longest was 4 months on the road
Once dc up to Canada and all the way across to Vancouver-sf-back to dc thru the south
Many many times from dc to Key west and back
Thru Europe by camper van; Amsterdam- Belgium-France-Spain- Morocco- Spain- France -Italy ferry to Greece and than back to Amsterdam 1972
Bicycle tour that included; Thailand, India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, ( an incredible country on a bicycle) Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Australia and Tahiti lasting 18 months before i returned back to the states 1982/83
did 3 road trips from Phuket up thru Northern Thailand into Laos -Cambodia and back to phuket. There on my photo site
and a few trips just phuket-Kep
Have done 2 motorcycle trips thru Burma ( also on my website)
I love road trips
Hwy 1 in Ca, and 101 Ca, Oregon & Washington is a trip not to be missed with ur own vehicle
In a nation run by swine, all pigs are upward-mobile and the rest of us are fucked until we can put our acts together: not necessarily to win, but mainly to keep from losing completely. HST
-
- Similar Topics
- Replies
- Views
- Last post
-
- 2 Replies
- 1656 Views
-
Last post by Khmu Nation
-
- 0 Replies
- 2458 Views
-
Last post by CEOCambodiaNews
-
- 2 Replies
- 1132 Views
-
Last post by truffledog
-
- 1 Replies
- 1845 Views
-
Last post by WineOxley
Who is online
Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 307 guests