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The Route 66 Road Trip Guide: 2,400 Miles of the American Road Trip in Its Most Legendary Form
USA

The Route 66 Road Trip Guide: 2,400 Miles of the American Road Trip in Its Most Legendary Form

Route 66, which runs 2,400 miles from Chicago, Illinois to Santa Monica, California, passing through eight states, three time zones, and approximately four distinct eras of American cultural history, is less a road trip and more an argument for the proposition that driving, done properly, is itse...

Mumbai to Goa Road Trip: The Konkan Coast, Monsoon Logic, and 600km of the Best Reason to Drive
India

Mumbai to Goa Road Trip: The Konkan Coast, Monsoon Logic, and 600km of the Best Reason to Drive

The drive from Mumbai to Goa is one of those journeys that begins with the very best of intentions, a full tank of petrol, a carefully curated playlist, and the sort of optimism that can only belong to someone who has never previously attempted to navigate the NH66 on a long weekend when, by some...

The Pacific Coast Highway Road Trip Guide: California's Most Unreasonably Beautiful Drive
USA

The Pacific Coast Highway Road Trip Guide: California's Most Unreasonably Beautiful Drive

There is a stretch of road in California, running broadly speaking along the edge of the continent, at which the Pacific Ocean arrives with the sort of emphatic grandeur that makes one feel the planet is, on some level, showing off. The Pacific Coast Highway road trip is not merely a drive.