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Vanpackers SUV Camping Kit: Unboxing
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I have a little secret: I love camping, but I absolutely hate tents. I have an intense aversion to tenting between the poles, the tarps, and everything else. It’s just not worth it, especially if it rains. What I do like is sleeping inside of a vehicle. I have driven most of the way across…
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Breaking Free – Driving a Mustang to California and Back, Part 3
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After spending well over a month and a half in California with family that I had driven all the way from Georgia to see, I planned a detour to Los Angeles before hitting the road for home. I wanted to have one final blast on some good roads before going back to whatever reality was…
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Breaking Free – Driving a Mustang to California and Back, Part 2
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Suspension: Sport. Steering: Sport. Exhaust: Track. Windows: Down. Soul: Free. I was on Highway 9 just outside of Saratoga, CA. The main street had just begun to come alive for the evening rush, but I was only interested in what was above the town. I left the shops and restaurants behind and began to ascend.…
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Breaking Free – Driving a Mustang to California and Back to Save My Sanity, Part 1
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I thought the lockdowns and travel restrictions of 2020 wouldn’t get to me. I’ve never been very outgoing or open with my thoughts and generally stick to my introverted, socially awkward ways. So having the ultimate excuse to stay in my comfort zone should have been easy. Let me tell ya…it absolutely was not. About…
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Road Trip Review: The 2021 Ford Mustang Mach-E from California to Colorado
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The Car 2021 Mustang Mach-E 4x First Edition in Grabber Blue Metallic. This specific one has AWD, an 88-kWh battery, 346 hp and 428 lb-ft of torque, and 270 miles of range. The total MSRP is $50,800. The Trip Venice, CA to Denver, CO. 800 miles on the highway, then another 500 miles on back…
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Electric Brewgaloo! Long-Distance Porsche Taycan beer run Pt. 2
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Sometime last summer, I used a Porsche Taycan to go on a mini road trip in search of great beer. The Taycan 4S was an amazing machine and it left me wanting to sample the higher-spec versions of this all-electric Porsche. And that’s what’s happening here now. This is long-distance beer run part two and…
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Porsche Taycan 4S – Long-Distance Beer Run!
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This is a 2020 Porsche Taycan 4S. It’s the electric Porsche and the EPA says it has a surprisingly low range. Everything I hear about the car says that’s not the case. So I borrowed one to see for myself… and I took the car on a nearly 200-mile beer run to three different Southern…
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More Antisocial Distancing – Driving Cross Country
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Recently my colleague Chris documented his escape from quarantine in a 2020 Jeep Wrangler Rubicon. I couldn’t help but use that same concept for this feature about my recent attempt to get out and see the country in my own 2017 Jeep Wrangler. I love to travel. I know that doesn’t make me special, it’s…
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Car-free road trip: Of Bikes, Books and Beaches
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The flames that Semelovsky ignited to provide a distraction had consumed him, and Baranovitch was laying in a pool of blood, having been shot by a Russian guard. Both had given their lives so that Mitchell Gant, fuelled by equal parts fear and ego, could perform the task that his infiltration of the Bilyarsk compound…
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Not the Baja 1000: Surviving Laguna Salada
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Two friends, their dogs, and a wet lakebed… It was the fourth time the truck fishtailed. The wheel was cranked hard to the left. I was certain the wheels were almost perpendicular to the frame. Yet we moved forward. Until the fishtail pushed the front end left, and the back swerving right. In any other…
