The Scottish highlands! One of the places I love that's sadly (but understandably) not very accessible with public transport. I found the Scottish people friendly, fun and down to Earth, and the landscapes there are just breathtaking
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Gas station to top off the tank and probably clean the windows.
The bathroom. Better to go before you go!
Also the servo. Won't getting far without fuel.
God damn it you beat me to it
I usually start road trips with an early morning Hardee's/Carl's Jr. gravy biscuit with hash browns and a Coke. I go in and sit with all the old people awake at 5 AM. It's a nice way to wake up and start a long journey.
My dealer.
Wawa for coffee and snacks.
Took the answer right out of my mind. Get me a hoagie or some candy and gas. Hop right on the turnpike and get the fuck out of PA.
Wawa is pretty much always the real start of a trip for me. Top off the gas, check tires, grab something with caffeine and a Sizzli or soft pretzels, and then I know I'm as ready to roll as in going to be!
Love some wawa! I haven't tried the new hot cocoas yet, have you? They sound neat.
Not yet, but I'd like to give them a try!
So I did get one of the s'mores hot cocoas. It was nice! It gets sludgy at the end due to whatever is making it taste all graham crackery though, and I don't always enjoy that sensation. But the flavor is very nice and until the sludge, also nice!
I just had the smores hot cocoa - so delicious!
Yum (minus the sludge)! I'm headed out later today, maybe I'll stop by Wawa on my way home. It's supposed to be a cold rainy day today so a smores hot cocoa would be perfect :)
I was thinking maybe I'd try one tonight for the 2am run! Here's to hoping it's good!
Gas station.
Computer history museum. – the archive of our age and what shaped it thus far.
I'd like to go to the La Brea tar pits because that holds massive meaning for Earth's living history.
I'd like to spend a full day at Barber Motorsports Park again if I was ever in Birmingham again.
I love the age when people cast engines and machined parts in their middle class neighborhood back yards and alleys; when all motorcycles still had bicycle pedals and were just modified bicycle frames. The way the motorcycle started as nothing more than a velodrome pace bike to replace the 4+ man tandems for leading out certain track events is on clear display in their museum. I wish I lived in an age like that, where people could be far more creative without space and shitty people constraints. I have no place to do metal casting even if I could somehow handle the physical stress of it. I would love to do green sand casting.
The tar pits are worth a visit! Lots of cool history and I like the smell lol
The train station.
A hot springs! It's been too long since I've been to one and I just want to re-fucking-lax
Saaaaaaammmeee
That sounds awesome, good call!
The top speed of my vehicle, for at least a few minutes. It's been too long..
Ohhh you wanted a location... booooring.
I live in the northern suburbs of Stockholm Sweden, so a road trip will probably mean going south.
So lets start going west!
I would hit up Gripsholm castle to say hi to Leo the Lion: https://www.kungligaslotten.se/artiklar-film-360/gripsholms-slott/2018-07-22-legenden-leo.html
Then I'd go down the E4, stopping at a moose park in Småland, stay overnight at my aunts place, keep going south to Blekinge, visit Marinemuseum (the National Maritime museum of Sweden) in Karlskrona, then continue on to Malmö, drive to Denmark, visit Legoland, continue to Germany, and Hamburg, for Miniature Wunderland, then find out where the closed steel works that you can explore are, go there, then find the park with old bucket wheel excavators, check those out, keep going south to Sinsheim and Speyer and checkout the cool technology museums, drive over to France and start heading back home.
Buc-ee’s for some sweet sweet road trip snacks
Buccee's is incredibly awful to their employees.
My wife scored a job there and I got her to quit before she started. The HR staff was rocking the phones, non stop, trying to get people to come back in. Not a good sign.
I've worked some nasty jobs, ain't afraid of much. I could go on and on, but the rules at Buc-ee's are fucking appalling. Yeah, they pay better than average, but you are a slave. However bad you think your job is? Not hearing it if you don't work at Buc-ee's. I'll never stop there again as long as I live.
Can we get some breakfast tacos for the road, please?
Gas station for fuel and snacks.
And then straight home to fart
toronto and then never come back.
No financial or resource limits? I want to go everywhere within driveability and see & do absolutely everything.
Including Hiking all the waterfalls in Oregon.
All the breathtaking lesser-known beach gems up & down the California coast line.
Disneyland 😊 I wouldn't recommend it for everyone, but I want to go because I haven't been since childhood/teenager and it would be cute nostalgia.
Coffee to begin? Gas station coffee and cigs would be perfect
The country I live in now is quite well-served by railway lines so it would be hard to imagine going on a road trip... If I have the opportunity however, maybe to the Ardennes mountains since it'd be nice to explore the whole area
The ironic answer would be the local pothole(s)
Never been to a desert or west of the Rocky Mountains. Gods I don't want to roll there from NW Florida, but I've never seen it.
The RV rental place.
Hawaii!
Work, because I can't afford a road trip.