Road Trips

We LOVE road trips! (These photos are from our last road trip with the Rat Pack to the Salt River Canyon in February.)

Ricë Freeman-Zachery got me thinking about this with one of her blog posts today. In the comments there, I started discoursing on this. Here's the rest:

Dream trip #2 is to rent a MINI in England and drive all around the countryside, just stopping when and where we want without making any plans. Somehow, we mysteriously end up in Germany with our own wonderfully modified CoopahS and we get to drive the Nürburgring as fast as we possibly can. Then there's a route through the Alps we'd like to take...

Or we'd be happy to just take the back roads up to Prescott for lunch or dinner. Surprise road trips, when The Sports Fan comes home from work early and just says "Let's go for a ride", are THE BEST!

We always try out local restaurants, not chains. The list from Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives (Triple D) is a good place to start. Just thinking about it has my mouth watering for the best mac n cheese I ever had at Baby Blues BBQ in Venice, CA.

Once, as we wandered the streets of San Francisco (does that sound like a TV show to you???), we were hungry and I noticed we were in front of a restaurant. We went in and had some of the best seafood ever at John's Grill and discovered that Dashiel Hammett had written part of the Maltese Falcon there.

On another trip, this time to historic Charleston, SC, we found a little place on a jetty sticking out into the harbour close to the old Custom's House near the docks. It is called Fleet Landing and we discovered that it used to be a Navy debarkation area for soldiers during WWII. It had outlived that use and was sold to the Port of Charleston and used for storage. It became vacant for nearly 20 years until eventually it was converted into a really cool restaurant where you can get a fried whole flounder! Later, my brother told us that it was the new IN place to eat in Charleston. So much for new discoveries!

We are MORE than ready for another road trip. And gee, we just happen to have one planned!