10,892 Mile M850 Trans-Continental Journey (and Return)

[adhrp]

Originally Posted by KevinGS

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.

You sound like me In grad school, I bought my first car and any opportunity I could find (usually long weekends), I would head out somewhere, anywhere, new. I saw much of the country that way as I became more adventurous and started to drive farther and farther. Being in the midwest was a plus since I could drive both east and west to very nice locations fairly quickly and I also did a couple trips south up to TN. Some of my best days!

These days I'm busy with work, a kid, and a wife who isn't a big road trip fan. I do plan to resume once my kid's a little older though. I think my road trip bug comes from the numerous road trips my parents took me on growing up (both the journey and destination always felt very exciting to me), so I want to plant that seed in my kid's mind too

Nice trip and thread snow bimmer! I will be revisiting this thread everyday.

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Originally Posted by GOLFFRR

wow, the planning and documentation what a post !

Thank you for mentioning the effort invested in planning this trip. I would venture to say that the resulting spreadsheet managed by OP probably created a few out-of-memory exceptions.

Epic.

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Post 9 of 17

The return route: Charlottetown, PEI to Portland - 16 days, 5,388 Miles
June 1 to June 16, 2025


Day 20: Charlottetown to Grand Falls, New Brunswick, Canada - 349 Miles


The first order of business is getting off Prince Edward Island and across the Confederation Bridge. It doesn't cost anything to get on the island, but they stick it to you upon leaving. I pull up to the window and the lady told me how much. I said, "$15 and 25 cents?" She said, No. It's $50 and 25 cents." To which I replied, "Did you just say Fifty?" She then scowled and bellowed, "FIFTY DOLLARS AND 25 CENTS!!!" Jesus, fine. Then I saw the signs that said its a misdemeanor if you give the booth people a hard time. Sheesh.


Eight miles across. Better weather today.




I didn't really research much to do between Prince Edward Island and Grand Falls. The landscape is rolling greenery. But, Fredrickton seemed like an interesting town, about 3 hours away. It is the capital city of New Brunswick. And has some nice architecture. We drive down to the St. John River and end up on Queen Street.

The Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick


City Hall


Justice Center


Queen Street


Grabbed a quick lunch and off to Grand Falls - an uneventful 2 1/2 hours yonder. For the first time, we actually get to a hotel at 3 o'clock - and just chill until dinner. Still raining.


We drive over to a nice restaurant perched above the St. John River and I enjoy a nice birthday steak. Then we drive, literally, down to the river behind the restaurant.


It's time to look for these Grand Falls now. It has finally stopped raining. A dam creates the Grand Falls Generating Station and sits just above the falls. It's pretty dramatic.


The falls drops 75 feet over a series of rock ledges.


Tomorrow is our last multi-night stop - Quebec City. Heard lots of nice things about it.

Grand Falls, New Brunswick

Total Miles: 5,853
Daily Avg: 293 Miles


Day 21: Grand Falls to Quebec City, Quebec, Canada - 291 Miles


Today we parallel the St. John River, driving Trans Canada 2 on the north side - the south side being Maine. After about an hour we cross into Quebec, which I last saw many decades ago as a young man. A little further along we stop in at Notre Dame du Lac on Lake Temiscouata.


We soon leave Hwy 2 and take Hwy 232 south to get back near Maine. At Pohenegamook we are across from the Northernmost Point of Maine.


A little foot bridge takes you across the Saint Francis River


You are now in the Parc de la Frontiere - weird name, since this is US soil. No customs.




In about another 30 minutes we rejoin Trans Canada 2 and turn SE, following the shore of the St. Lawrence Seaway.

They know how to do rest areas in Quebec


We stop in Levis to look at Quebec City across the St. Lawrence River


A few miles further on we take the bridge across the river and are fully involved with all that a large city has to offer in the way of traffic jams and construction. We slowly make our way back to the center of the city, specifically Old Quebec.


We find our hotel, oddly, one of the newer ones - I wanted modern instead of quaint.








View out on to the Rue Saint-Jean


It is only 2:30, as we picked up an hour coming back into Eastern Daylight Time. We relax a bit and then venture back out.

Quebec City is the capital of Quebec and has a population of 550,000. It was founded in 1608 as a French settlement by the explorer Samuel de Champlain and is one of the oldest settlements in North America. It is also the only fortified city north of Mexico whose walls still exist. The old portion is the main tourist draw with amazing old world architecture and tight streets filled with shops and restaurants. It is crawling with people.

The blocks are small and everything is jammed in pretty tight, like an old European city center. It's really cool. We go across the street to City Hall, but they stop us just inside the door. Fine. We'll go across the next street to the Cathedral Basilica of Notre-Dame de Quebec, which is more welcoming. It is the oldest church in Quebec and was first built in the 1750s.






Restaurants galore on the Rue Sainte-Anne


And then the crown jewel of Quebec City - the Fairmont Le Chateau Frontenac & the Dufferin Terrace


The hotel opened in 1893, has 610 rooms spread over 18 floors, with views of the city and the St. Lawrence River. It was one of the first of Canada's grand railway hotels. Some of the others being the Empress Hotel in Victoria, British Columbia, the Banff Springs Hotel and the Chateau Lake Louise in Alberta.

Lobby




It's quite the Chateau




US Consulate - Green roof


Looking down on Place Royale


This is a large hotel


Monument of Faith Fountain


Post Office & Musee




Grabbed a quick dinner and continued wandering

Tight spaces


Alpenglow


Got back over to Rue Saint-Jean, which is crammed with shops and restaurants, to look for tomorrow night's dinner spot. The crowds are out, the eateries are full.

A side street - Rue Sainte-Angele


The St. John Gate




We head back and get to the hotel about 8:30.
Quebec City........a really cool place.


Week 3 in the books, 1,764 miles. Still a long way from home.

Quebec City, Quebec

Total Miles: 6,104
Daily Avg: 291 Miles


Day 22: Around Quebec City - 27 Miles


The day dawns bright and sunny, for once. Maybe our run of marginal weather is over.

We grab breakfast at the Starbucks in the Chateau and walk along the massive Dufferin Terrace. It was finished in 1879.


Our goal is the Citadel of Quebec on the hill next to the Chateau. We approach the St. Louis Gate and climb up to the entrance.


Ramparts and moat


The Citadel sits atop the Cap Diamont at the north end of the Plains of Abraham and was recognized for it's strategic importance as early as 1608. Several defensive fortifications have been here, with the current one finished in 1850. It is still an active military installation.


And has great views of the city






We take a nice tour and wander through the museum before heading back

Rue Sainte Louis


City Hall


Lunch on Rue Saint-Jean (And to think, she still travels with me)


The weather is still nice, so we get in the car and drive about 10 miles down the St. Lawrence River to Montmorency Falls, which cascade off a cliff just above the St. Lawrence River. We park and walk over to a suspension bridge above the upper falls. Lotta power here.


Then drop down to a viewpoint for a close up view


Observation decks across the basin


Then back to the other side for the grand view. It is really something. And very loud.




We head back to the city to explore Place Royal, the oldest section of the city below the chateau. It is extremely busy down here, with lots of construction and traffic - people and cars and bikes. We park and head over to the action.

The shops are colorful


Not sure what's going on with the guy on the left side of this picture - nobody seems too concerned. I didn't notice it either at the time.


We reach the colorful and busy street of Rue du Petit Champlain, lined with cafes and shops.


And the funicular to wisk you up to the Dufferin Terrace near the Chateau


More Rue du Petit Champlain


We make our way back to the car following some narrow side streets.




Back at our hotel, the room is a welcome site and we rest a bit before dinner, then head back to Rue Saint-Jean. It's very busy tonight.


Managed to get into a nice place for dinner that we scoped out yesterday. Grabbed a few souvenirs on the way back and called it a day. The pedometer says 8 miles today. My dogs don't disagree.


Quebec City is really something. The architecture is amazing. It is clean, safe and energetic. It was touristy, but manageable. It is absolutely one of the favorite stops on our trip. Did I mention there are no English signs? Anywhere.

Au revoir, Quebec City

Total Miles: 6,131
Daily Avg: 279 Miles

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Originally Posted by Phillies8008

That's... a lot of driving! Thanks for documenting it so amazingly – looks like you guys had a blast. The "Your Trips" destinations screen is hilarious.

It's funny: I've never had any interest whatsoever in driving cross-country in an RV, which seems like torture rather than fun, but I'd definitely do this if I had the time. I think that the actual driving is (at least) half of the attraction for me, so doing it in an awesome car rather than a lumbering behemoth is all the difference in the world. Plus I'd rather just stay in an actual hotel with actual beds and an actual shower than a poor approximation of all of these.

Thanks, man. Yeah, it's a lot of driving. Worth every mile.

I had a client that recently passed away. He loved National Parks too. But, he was a trailer guy. After he retired, about 15 years ago, he hauled his trailer out to Prince Edward Island. Yikes! I said that someday I will go to Prince Edward Island, too, but it most definitely won't be hauling a trailer. Just, no.

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Originally Posted by GOLFFRR

wow, the planning and documentation what a post !

Thank you, sir. Plan your work. Then work your plan.

[ManhattanBMW]

Originally Posted by snowbimmer

I want your older brother for an older brother. That is some automotive legacy. Too bad about the theft. I would have been apoplectic.

The M850 averaged 23.9 mpg, with several fill-ups in the 29 mpg range and one actually over 30. We spent a lot of time in some major cities that brought the average down.

Ha ha. I think you could do about 1500 miles in an 8er and win the 100% useage championship each month.

That is a fantastic average mileage for such a powerful car. The 30 mpg fill up must have been sweet. Living in NYC, I well aware how urban driving saps gas mileage. Thanks for sharing your trip.

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Originally Posted by adhrp

You sound like me In grad school, I bought my first car and any opportunity I could find (usually long weekends), I would head out somewhere, anywhere, new. I saw much of the country that way as I became more adventurous and started to drive farther and farther. Being in the midwest was a plus since I could drive both east and west to very nice locations fairly quickly and I also did a couple trips south up to TN. Some of my best days!

These days I'm busy with work, a kid, and a wife who isn't a big road trip fan. I do plan to resume once my kid's a little older though. I think my road trip bug comes from the numerous road trips my parents took me on growing up (both the journey and destination always felt very exciting to me), so I want to plant that seed in my kid's mind too

Nice trip and thread snow bimmer! I will be revisiting this thread everyday.

Thanks. Glad you enjoy it. Keep coming back, only just over half the posts are up.

I, too, wanted to plant the travel seed in my son's mind. We were in New York several years ago, driving to Niagara Falls. I was jacked. I saw it when I was 13 and always wanted to see it again. I get to the parking lot and have my seat belt off and the door open before I'm fully parked. I'm out the door. Come on, everybody!

My son looks up from his Gameboy and says, "Do I have to get out of the car?"

A little part of me died that day.

[adhrp]

Originally Posted by snowbimmer

Thanks. Glad you enjoy it. Keep coming back, only just over half the posts are up.

I, too, wanted to plant the travel seed in my son's mind. We were in New York several years ago, driving to Niagara Falls. I was jacked. I saw it when I was 13 and always wanted to see it again. I get to the parking lot and have my seat belt off and the door open before I'm fully parked. I'm out the door. Come on, everybody!

My son looks up from his Gameboy and says, "Do I have to get out of the car?"

A little part of me died that day.

Oh man haha! Keep at it, you will break him eventually

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Originally Posted by cfm56d7b

Thank you for mentioning the effort invested in planning this trip. I would venture to say that the resulting spreadsheet managed by OP probably created a few out-of-memory exceptions.

Epic.

Funny. Spreadsheet is my middle name.

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Originally Posted by adhrp

Oh man haha! Keep at it, you will break him eventually

He comes from a long line of road trippers. It will sadly end with me.

[Vinnrox250]

Welp, I didn’t get any work done this morning. Ha. I have been glued to my phone reading this amazing write up. I have loved reading and seeing parts all of your previous journeys.

Thank you very much for taking the crazy amount of time to post all of these and share some of the most beautiful parts of this country. I am glad you and your wife had a great time! And I am sorry to hear about your mother.

Looking forward to reading more about your return trip home.

What’s the next trip on the agenda?

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Originally Posted by Vinnrox250

Welp, I didn’t get any work done this morning. Ha. I have been glued to my phone reading this amazing write up. I have loved reading and seeing parts all of your previous journeys.

Thank you very much for taking the crazy amount of time to post all of these and share some of the most beautiful parts of this country. I am glad you and your wife had a great time! And I am sorry to hear about your mother.

Looking forward to reading more about your return trip home.

What’s the next trip on the agenda?

Thank you for all of your thoughts. I'm sorry to keep you from your work. I'll try to make the return trip less compelling. Oops, not gonna happen. I actually think it's better. Keep checking back.

We have a Yosemite trip planned for late May. Then back home up the California/Oregon coast.

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Post 10 of 17


Day 23: Quebec City to Lake Placid, New York, USA - 335 Miles


I originally had Montreal as an overnight stop, then we'd buzz over to Ottawa and drop straight down into New York. But then I thought, yeah, it would be cool, but do I want to subject myself to a city of nearly 2 million people with a surrounding metro area of over 4 million? And it would need at least 2 nights. The natural habitat for me and my cars is in the mountains and I'd never been to the Adirondacks. So Montreal became a drive-thru and I rebooked that night for Lake Placid.

I'd been to Montreal as a 12 year old, so I don't remember much. We could drop by Olympic Stadium, hit downtown and scoot south to the frontier. Easy. We're 3 hours away this morning.

We put Quebec City in our rear view mirror and lazily wind our way down Hwy 138 along the north shore of the St. Lawrence River. It's really wide through here.


It is farm land all the way to the outskirts of Montreal. Then, just like that....city. Gobs of cars and traffic. Construction everywhere. We crawl and crawl. Downtown has been taken off the menu. We finally get to Olympic Park, but it has taken 4.5 hours instead of 3 and it is 1:30 already.

A quick look around and we're off again.








I wanted to drive onto the islands where Expo '67 was held, maybe see the F1 Circuit Gilles Villeneuve and possibly Habitat 67. Alas, it was taking forever and we just decided to find the fastest way south. Buh, bye Montreal.

We reach the New York border, just 50 miles away, and cross on Hwy 11 at Rouses Point. It only took 2 hours to get there.


We take Hwy 2 east and cross back into Vermont onto the upper islands of Lake Champlain. Then down to Burlington, VT. A quick peek at the University of Vermont, then loop through downtown, mired in traffic due to rush hour and multiple city blocks and streets closed down to a massive construction project. Nuts.

No matter. We have to get on down to the Charlotte Ferry Dock to catch the 5:00 ferry back across Lake Champlain to Essex, NY, instead of driving all the way around the south end of the lake. First in line.

Lake Champlain


Ferry




We dock back in New York at Essex and head up into the Adirondacks to Lake Placid, a pleasant 45 mile journey in the mountains.

Dinner is out of a mini-mart and I find a car wash. It has been 20 days, 4,739 miles and 24 states & provinces since it was last washed in Lincoln, Nebraska on Day 4. Gotta be some kind of a record. I think the M850 actually let out a sigh of relief, maybe. I know my OCD did.


Get back to the room around 8:30 and it's time to do a wash. We met a gal in the laundry just finishing up. I asked her where she is from. Washington state, about 100 miles from us. She and her husband just.............drove across the county. They have family here. Small world.

Long day........again.

Lake Placid, New York

Total Miles: 6,466
Daily Avg: 281 Miles


Day 24: Lake Placid to Rochester, New York - 361 Miles


Today will be the longest driving day since Day 3. We are officially in "Return" mode.

Today should also be fun: Lake Placid Olympic stuff, the Adirondacks, the Finger Lakes and more.

The day is spectacularly nice. Our hotel sits on the edge of Mirror Lake. We are out early, just after 8 AM. It's too bad, because this might have been our favorite room on the whole trip and we barely enjoyed it.


Then over to the actual Lake Placid, right next door. A guy walked up and commented about my car. We started chatting. Eventually he offered to show us all around the lake in his boat. Had to beg off due to time constraints, but still.....




Had a picture here last night with a really dirty car. This is better.


Lake Placid held the Olympics in 1932 and again in 1980. This is not a large place by any stretch of the imagination. Not sure where they put everyone.

Right behind us, the Olympic Jumping Complex rises.


Pretty impressive




You can climb right up onto the Small Hill and Large Hill




Back in town we drive over to the Olympic Center. Lake Placid High School is next door.


The track in front of the high school is the Olympic Speed Skating Oval. This 400 meter track was used for both the 1932 and 1980 Olympics. Today it is used for ice skating in the winter and roller skating in the summer.


Eric Heiden won his 5 golds here in 1980




Olympic Center




Inside is a great museum commemorating both Olympics held here.

1932: Opened by FDR




The 1932 Rink in 1932


Today


Several other Olympics get wall space, too


Hard to believe it was 46 years ago - Jimmy Carter was president and the Soviet Union was still around.




Probably the most notable moment was the US Hockey Team's Miracle on Ice.


The 1980 Ice Hockey Arena, named for the coach


Cozy little 7,700 seat arena - 8,500 crammed in for the game


The USA sent a team of scrappy college kids out against the vaunted Soviet team made up of essentially professional players. The Soviets had won four straight Gold medals and 5 of the last 6. They were the heavy favorite when the two teams met in the medal round. The US won 4-3 in a heart stopping game on February 22, 1980. Pandemonium and delirium ensued.


The US then went on to beat Finland two days later for the Gold medal. This was a feat unmatched until the US did it again in the recently completed 2026 Olympics in Milan.

I don't even like hockey, but it gave me chills to be there.

What a great complex - highly recommended.


We make our way down to Main Street and wandered through some shops.






The Grand Adirondack Hotel


And Mirror Lake I could definitely see spending more time here.


It is already after 11 o'clock and we still have 361 miles. Yup, another long day coming.

Main Street turns into Hwy 86 and we're finally off.

Saranac Lake is a nice town just up ahead


The drive is highly enjoyable as we wind our way through forested mountains, small towns and lakes - literally hundreds of lakes.

We cross Long Lake, a narrow finger measuring 14 miles end to end.


And the quaint Adirondack Lodge on it's shores. Not sure why we didn't go peek inside.


Hoss's Corner is just up ahead and we snag a great burger across the street


The road continues past more lakes and lodges. We pass the uninspiredly named Eighth Lake, Seventh Lake, Sixth Lake, and Fifth Lake - stopping at the village of Inlet on Fourth Lake.

Fourth Lake and Cabins




We finally pop out of the Adirondacks at Rome, NY and jump on I-90 toward Syracuse. I had planned to drop in on the Orange of Syracuse University, but time has been slipping away. Next time.

Rochester is straight west, but I need to drop down south about 60 miles to Ithaca, NY - home of Cornell University. My grandfather earned his Masters Degree in Electrical Engineering here in 1917. Impressive and hilly campus. Another Ivy League school checked off.

Morrill Hall


Andrew White House - Home of Cornell's first president




The campus has many interesting highlights, such as Triphammer Falls


The Cornell Art Department


We are now at 6 o'clock and the weather that has been threatening us decides to unload. We make haste out of Ithaca and follow the western shore of Cayuga Lake - one of the Finger Lakes, whose southern end abuts Ithaca. The rain and fog and wind have reduced all visibility. Nearby Watkins Glen on the next Finger Lake over (Park and racetrack), will have to wait for another time.

An hour later we arrive in Seneca Falls at the north end of Cayuga Lake. Seneca Falls is a nice little berg of around 7,000 and is said to have inspired the Frank Capra movie It's a Wonderful Life and it's town, Bedford Falls.


There's even a bridge that Jimmy Stewart could have jumped from. More on Jimmy tomorrow.


An hour left to Rochester. And to think, it's only 7:15. We grab a fast food dinner and call it a day. But, what a fun day it was.

Rochester, New York

Total Miles: 6,827
Daily Avg: 284 Miles


Day 25: Rochester to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania - 335 Miles


We wake up to gray and rainy. Rochester was a powerful economic force in it's past, due to it's proximity to Lake Ontario and the Erie Canal. It is the birthplace of several great American Companies, such as Bausch & Lomb, Xerox, Eastman Kodak and Hickey Freeman. I wanted to see the Eastman Kodak Museum, but they don't open until 10 AM and we are out the door at 8. Looks like it's just gonna be a rainy downtown drive-thru.

Rochester has some great architecture


The Genesee River runs through town - with some interesting infrastructure.


Modern Condos


Not exactly sure what's happening here. The building on the right is the back of the Rochester Library, built over some old waterways and part of the Erie Canal.


Still raining That sucker was finally clean yesterday.


There's only one scheduled stop today, but it's toward the end. So we get on the road heading south. Eventually we merge onto Hwy 219 - a section of road we have actually been on when we drove from Frank Lloyd Wright's Falling Water, down near the W. Virginia and Maryland border up to Buffalo, NY back in 2007. We soon cross into Pennsylvania and an hour later we see a scary old factory at Johnsonburg, PA. We turn off to investigate.


The town, like so many in the western parts of Pennsylvania, has seen better days. Yet, the factory, Domtar, is one of the most technologically advanced paper mills in the world. Looks like it might be the town's only employer.

The achitecture on Market Street is interesting










12 minutes later we are in Ridgway - a spunky little town (and county seat of Elk Co., PA) of 4,000. We find an upscale diner in a former bank across from the county courthouse. (Yeah, there's no e in Ridgway)




Back on the road by 1 o'clock and 40 minutes later Hwy 219 takes us through DuBois, PA - another town full of more old buildings with a full work history.


Punxsutawney comes up in another 20 mins. We don't stop, because we were just here only 19 years ago.


Phil


We finally reach our main stop for the day in another half hour at Indiana, PA. The boyhood home of Jimmy Stewart and the Jimmy Stewart Museum. One of our favorite actors in movies from the mid-20th century.


The Museum


The man himself


Jimmy Stewart was born in Indiana in 1908. He grew up working in the family's hardware store. He started acting while at Princeton and eventually broke into the movies in 1935. He had close to 30 film roles by 1941, including Mr. Smith Goes to Washington and The Philadelphia Story, winning his only Academy Award. He then enlisted in the US Army Air Forces in early 1941. He flew as a B-24 bomber pilot during WWII and achieved the rank of Colonel. He returned to Hollywood, but remained in the Air Force Reserve.




His first movie back after the war was It's a Wonderful Life in 1946 with Donna Reed. He said the raw emotions he showed in the film were due to his experiences in the war.


Alfred Hitchcock directed him in Rope in 1948. He married Gloria Hatrick in 1949 and they had two daughters, to go with the two older sons she brought to the marriage.


Stewart teamed with Hitchcock again in 1954, starring in the classic Rear Window, with Grace Kelly. The Far Country, The Man From Laramie and Strategic Air Command soon followed. Hitchcock directed again in 1956's The Man Who Knew Too Much with Doris Day. Vertigo in 1958, with Kim Novak, would be their last movie.


In the Air Force Reserve, Stewart continued flying, eventually piloting B-47 and B-52 bombers. In 1959 he achieved the rank of Brigadier General.


The Downtown Indiana Historic District from the museum. A nice little town of around 15,000, nestled in the rolling hills of Western Pennsylvania.


It's about an hour and a half to the hotel, located about 20 miles north of Pittsburgh and we arrive just after 6. I pull into the porte-cochere, like I have at the other 100 places we've stayed at over the last 6 years. This one is very narrow. Instead of 3-wide, or at least 2-wide, it might be 1 1/2 wide. I skooch over near the walkway to the front door, but there is a curb on the far side of the walkway, where no other place has ever had one, and I didn't see it. SON OF A BITCH!!


My new wheel is trashed - I know it cannot be repaired, only sanded and powder coated. Plus, there's a good hunk of rubber missing and another piece flapping in the wind. SON OF A BITCH!! What the hell just happened to the integrity of my sidewall??

To be fair, I see that I am not the only one who has smacked this corner. It doesn't make me feel any better and I am a tad cranky, shall we say, the rest of the night.


McCandless, Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh)

Total Miles: 7,162
Daily Avg: 286 Miles

[simplyeric]

I ain’t reading all that but whatever happened, I’m sorry or happy for you!

[itzryyster]

This is freaking fantastic! Love posts like these! Thanks for taking the time to post all the intricate details of your trip 👌👍

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Originally Posted by itzryyster

This is freaking fantastic! Love posts like these! Thanks for taking the time to post all the intricate details of your trip 👌👍

Thanks. I suppose intricate details and TMI can be a fine line. Glad you like it. There are still 7 more posts.

[ourlee]

Loving this thread, thanks for the hard work documenting your trip.

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Originally Posted by ourlee

Loving this thread, thanks for the hard work documenting your trip.

Glad you are enjoying it. I wish I could have spent a little more time in your state.

[ourlee]

I’m doing DE to LA this summer in my G87. End goal is Pebble Beach car week. Unlike you, my wife is a hard pass so I’ll be solo

[jabbarjd]

I'm so jealous of your journey and being able to catalog it so meticulously! I'm 41 and I long to go on a road trip like this, just like we did when I was a kid (travelling from TX to NY to FL and back with 4 kids was a laudable feat for my parents!). Alas, my wife hates being in the car for more than 1 hr so it's a pipe dream for now. Maybe when the 2 and 3 yr olds graduate from college, I can convince her to go with me.

Glad to catch this journey in the middle of your posts, can't' wait for the rest!

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Originally Posted by ourlee

I’m doing DE to LA this summer in my G87. End goal is Pebble Beach car week. Unlike you, my wife is a hard pass so I’ll be solo

Sounds great. Sorry about your lack of a co-pilot. I’ve been to Pebble Beach, but not during car week. That would be fun.

Do you have a route yet and how much time will you take?

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Originally Posted by jabbarjd

I'm so jealous of your journey and being able to catalog it so meticulously! I'm 41 and I long to go on a road trip like this, just like we did when I was a kid (travelling from TX to NY to FL and back with 4 kids was a laudable feat for my parents!). Alas, my wife hates being in the car for more than 1 hr so it's a pipe dream for now. Maybe when the 2 and 3 yr olds graduate from college, I can convince her to go with me.

Glad to catch this journey in the middle of your posts, can't' wait for the rest!

Glad to have you along. Our memories as kids can really carry us along as adults.

Sounds like you have 20 years to figure out how to get the wife on board.

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