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Those V8s gave me 13 major trips spread over 9 years and 41,757 miles of visiting the outrageous natural wonders of the West.
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Music to my ears. Like you, I LOVE road trips...as it's the most favorite part of me owning a car. Nothing like being on the open road, going through small towns, and new cities...taking in new vistas and new scenery. I could not wait to get my license when I was 15, and that high has never worn off. I still find a supreme amount of unadulterated joy driving a car I love, going out of town. Oftentimes the destination doesn't matter...I just want to go, somewhere, preferably new. Of course, like you, since I've taken so many trips over the years, I'm running out of new places to go. Montreal is on the list, maybe Key West, and the southwest. That's about it. I've been everywhere else, by car. Maybe Nova Scotia?
And I always enjoy arriving home too.
In my ideal life, I would own real estate in like 4 parts of the country, and would have 4 cars I love in each town/city...so then I could just fly around to my 4 homes and start various trips from a different (and closer) starting point. I'm fortunate to have longtime best friends in Los Angeles, Chicago, Dallas and St. Louis, so I do always have a place to stay for as long as I want when I arrive in any of these cities.
And during COVID, I did just that...I spent 8 weeks in LA with my friend (though he was gone for a month for work). I proceeded to rent several fun cars, culminating in a 458 Spider which I had for a week. The Turo prices during COVID were quite reasonable, so I rented a manual 911 convertible, AMG GT, C63S coupe and the 458 over the span of about 6 weeks...and drove every road in every canyon from Santa Barbara to San Diego. Best. Trip. Ever.
