Australian family loads up their Caprice, embarks on a GLOBAL road trip
The van der Weegen family travels more than 20,000 miles through Russia, North America, and Europe, shipping the car between continents.
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The van der Weegen family travels more than 20,000 miles through Russia, North America, and Europe, shipping the car between continents.
Loaded up the Volvo and headed east in search of my third Seville, winding through Indianapolis, Cleveland, Scranton, and Philadelphia with my dog.
I came to admire a car I didn’t like.
Every year, a couple dozen us Cadillac owners and enthusiasts get together in Chicago for the auto show and a metric ton of food. And every year, I seem to take anything but a Cadillac to a Cadillac meet.
Last year’s theme: Autopocalypse.
This year’s theme: Bread and butter.
At 40 miles across, I wasn’t exactly “crossing the state” since Missouri is 240 miles wide. Still, for me, with a cheap Wal-Mart bike in the middle of a humid midwest summer, it felt like crossing an entire continent.
In a word: Shitty. I empathize with those of you in Oklahoma this week where temperatures are colder than the north pole. I can’t imagine -28F being a usual thing for Okies.
I’ve covered over 50,000 miles crossing the country in all directions. Its time to lay down some rules and guidelines for drivers and passengers.
If Joseph and Mary had read this article, Jesus might have been born in a Hilton instead of a shed.
In 2005 I took my dad’s 1992 Civic hatchback through rural Washington to Portland and Multnomah Falls. Six years later, I regret not buying the car for myself.