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Your Guide to the Ultimate Road Trip to the Emerald Isle!

admin — Sun, 05 Jun 2011 20:59:44 +0000

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Kingman Road Trip 2007

admin — Mon, 27 Dec 2010 00:23:43 +0000

My 1st road trip to Kingman, AZ in my bike

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Kingman to Oro Valley Road Trip

admin — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 20:48:00 +0000

These are clips of a road trip from Kingman, AZ to Oro Valley, AZ in November, 2004. A winter snow had passed through Arizona the week of this trip. So we see Kingman in a blanket and then end up with the Catalina Mountain tops in snow.

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on the road route 66

admin — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 21:26:05 +0000

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Communications Strategies For a Road Trip

admin — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 21:43:27 +0000

Sounds great and there’s no reason why your dreams shouldn’t come to fruition, but there’s a little voice inside your head that won’t be silenced: “What if something happens? What if someone needs me? What if I need someone else?” There’s no need to silence the warrior within; you CAN have your adventure, just make sure you set some communications strategies in place to keep you covered in an emergency like these ones…

Bitten by a Cactus

Ok, so you’re out there on Route 66 giving it some on the highway and suddenly you hear the undeniable call of Nature. You pull over and duck behind the nearest cactus plant to protect your dignity from passing cowboys, but just as you’re readjusting your denims you catch a tender part of your anatomy on a massive spine. Ouch! Those things bite and it’s quite common to get an infection so you can’t take any chances. Luckily, you thought to program your next-door neighbour the nurse’s number into your phone as one of your medical back-up communications strategies. So it’s phone a friend time and she advises you to buy some household glue at your next roadhouse stop as this will prevent the most common infection from cactus spine – cactus dermatitis. Who knew!

Gone With the Wind

You’re about three days into your epic road journey and things are going great (even your cactus bite is healing nicely). You decide to pull into a nice motel and treat yourself to a soft bed and a large steak. As you sign the register and the clerk asks for your credit card, your stomach sinks as the realisation hits that the last time you remember seeing it was when you were using it to flick a giant scorpion off the back seat of the car – and that was three states and 400 windows-wound-down miles back. Just as well you’d set communications strategies in place between your Mum and your bank account and all it takes is one quick call (well ok, it’s your mother; not so quick) and your card is cancelled and there’s $500 wired to the Fedex down the road.

I Do, I Do

You finally made it to Vegas and you’re living it up on the money your Mum wired when, suddenly, in the blink of an eye you glance across the room and fall in love! After a few hours using some of your best-practiced communications strategies for romance, you and the object of your affection are pledging undying love and heading to the Little Chapel of Love for a quickie wedding ceremony overseen by Elvis. Ain’t love grand?

The Honeymoon is Over

Fast-forward three years and two kids later and your little Nevada Rose is definitely beginning to exhibit some thorns. There’s never any time for the two of you and you’re wondering if some of the magic is beginning to fade. But in truth, yours is destined to be a happily-ever-after road trip story and you know it’s worth putting up a fight to save your marriage. So you head off to therapy and as the two of you pour out your hearts, the kindly therapist tells that you really just need to talk and suggests that you put in place some simple communications strategies….

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Interstate 15 Road – Las Vegas to Salt Lake City

admin — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 06:51:50 +0000

Interstate 15 Road – Las Vegas to Salt Lake City (January 2nd, 2008) Interstate 15 cuts through the northwest corner of Arizona (Mohave County), separated from the rest of the state by the Grand Canyon. It passes through the Virgin River Canyon, one of the engineering marvels of the Interstate Highway System.

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A young Driver?s guide to the Great Irish Road Trip

admin — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 22:06:58 +0000

If your are looking for a great holiday full of fun, that won’t cost a fortune then get some mates together and head off on a road trip. Now there are many famous road trips across the world, such as route 66 in America and the great coast road in Australia, but if you want to avoid paying for costly air fares, there are lots of great trips you can make throughout Ireland. A little bit of research and a couple of maps should find you planning an exciting adventure, taking in the sights and sounds that the country has to offer. But before you go, there are a few essentials you are going to need to consider before hitting the road. The first is the car; if you have one you need to make sure that it is ready for to be taken on the trip. Check things like your oil levels and your tyre pressure, and if possible have a service before you go to make sure the car is in tip top condition. If you don’t have a car don’t despair you could always hire one to travel around in. This will add an additional expense onto your trip but should ensure that you have a good car to travel around in. The second thing to consider is car insurance. If you want to share the driving between you and your mates you need to make sure that you are all insured. Some car insurance policies will let you drive other cars if you have your own fully comprehensive policy. But be careful, as not all policies will let you do this and if they do you will probably find that you will only be covered at the third party level and there may be some restrictions about when it applies. It could be that it works out cheaper for a friend to become a named driver on your policy but again you need to be careful that it is still you that is doing the majority of the driving and you should check the terms and conditions in connection. The best thing to do is to talk to your car insurance provider, who should be able to advise you on the best way to meet your motor insurance needs. The third thing is make sure that you travel prepared for any eventuality. Buy breakdown cover before you go as if you need to purchase on the road you could end up paying more. Check to make sure that your boot contains all the things you need for an emergency, like a first aid kit and a high visibility vest. The final thing to do then is to plan your route, fill up with petrol and set off on your own little adventure.

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Road Trip In France

admin — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 22:13:02 +0000

Planning any Road Trip can be so exciting, but instead of the much loved infamous American route 66 road trip, why not try something a bit closer to home. France is such a beautiful country, so why stick To just one Hotel , B&B or Campsite!

The first thing to do is to plan your route. This said, the whole point of a road trip is that you can change your mind about a place and move on rather than stay somewhere you don´t like. So when I say Plan, I mean a rough idea of where you would like to visit and for how long.

Not having a timescale would be everyone’s dream if you are planning a road trip; however most of us normally have a week or two, maybe three weeks for a holiday.

I remember one Road trip we went on and ended up staying the whole week in the same Hotel in the same town as we just fell in love with it and didn´t want to risk moving on to something not as nice. Which is half the fun really, but once you have been on quite a few, you will soon learn the quality you begin to expect from certain areas.

Cost will also play a huge part in which area you will stay, as a general rule, French Hotels and B&B´s tend to get more expensive the Further South you go. So if you are planning two weeks around St.Tropez and Monaco, you could be in for costly holiday.

Choosing your transport also has to be considered. You may use your own Car and caravan. However you may decide to Fly and Hire. Low cost airlines now have cheap flights from most UK airports to most airports in France, and hiring a camper or car is getting easier now you can book everything online when booking your flight.

Booking Cheap Hotels online before you go is by far the cheapest option, (for those of you who are organised), you will pick up great deals, but this will mean you will have less flexibility on moving on if you dislike a place. However this is what road trips are all about, the good, the bad, the really bad and the brilliant, but believe me, you won´t have another holiday like it.

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(Get your kicks on) Route 66 Road Musical Live Easy Rider

admin — Thu, 27 May 2010 22:18:26 +0000

A medley, 3 songs from The RoadMusical: Calling You, Get your kicks on Route 66, Born to be wild, Easy Rider

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Road Movies of Note

admin — Sat, 22 May 2010 22:21:30 +0000

The Road Movie, we’ve all seen at least one either knowingly or not and it serves as a good tool for the writer and or director to show a change in the protagonist over the course of a journey. It gives a blank canvas against which characters can be revealed as separate from their environment in ways that films shot in specific locations don’t always offer.
Road movies tend to follow a set structure – there is a challenge to be met along the journey, new knowledge and allies are gained – and traditionally end with the protagonist(s) reaching their destination changed for the experience or deciding to keep on with their journey.
There are literally hundreds of examples of road movies but decidedly few of a high quality, some well known, others not. Road movies blossomed after World War 2 with America’s post-war boom and the growing automobility of the youth culture. With their roots back in spoken and written tales of journeys such as Homer’s Odyssey, the Road Movie really took off as a genre in the 1960s with the release of the much loved Easy Rider.
Released in 1969, Easy Rider was a road film that roared at the establishment and documented the rise and fall of the hippie movement. The counterculture film explored the American social landscape of the end of the sixties. Two bikers, Wyatt and Billy – played by Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper – have smuggled drugs from Mexico to Los Angeles and decide to head to New Orleans in time for Mardi Gras, with the proceeds of the drugs sale stuffed into the fuel tank of Wyatt’s chopper.
On their journey across America, Wyatt and Billy encounter a hitch-hiker heading home to the commune he lives in, get thrown in jail only to be freed with the help of drunken lawyer George (played by Jack Nicholson), the death of a friend when George is beaten to death when the trio are attacked in the night and a whorehouse in New Orleans.
With it’s look at counterculture America, use of music and imagery, Easy Rider was heralded as a masterpiece and helped to start off the New Hollywood phase and was later added to the United States Film Registry, deeming it “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.”
Following two years after Easy Rider, Two-Lane Blacktop took the use of music in the Road Movie a little further by starring James Taylor and Dennis Wilson alongside Warren Oates and Laurie Bird. The film revolves around two drag racers who live in their 1955 Chevy making a living from challenging local residents as they drift from town to town along Route 66.
Though not a commercial success, Two-Lane Blacktop was a hit with critics and has since become a cult classic – especially among fans of Route 66 as the film depicts the iconic road before it was converted into an Interstate. Moreover, the film was also one of the inspirations for Brock Yates to create the Cannonball Run.
Adding a new edge to the Road Movie genre, and announcing Mel Gibson to the world, Mad Max showed the highways of the not-so-distand future as a violent place when it was released in 1979. A story of social breakdown, murder and vengeance, Mad Max thrusts Mel Gibson’s police officer Max Rockatansky into a battle with Toecutter, leader of a murderous biker gang, who burns Max’ partner and murders his wife and son.
Becoming the Road Warrior, Max takes the law into his own hands, hunting down and killing the gang members one by one. Though initially a slow burner upon release, Mad Max gained success around the world garnering over 100 million dollars, spawning two sequels – with talks for a third in progress – and mad a star of Mel Gibson. For his part, Gibson gives one of his best performances in this superbly directed film which turned the Road Movie into something dark, sinister, and even ominous with its predictions of a fuel deprived future.
Thankfully, the future of the road movie wasn’t bleak or half as dark as predicted by Mad Max when the next big hit of the genre arrived in 1987. Far from it. Planes, Trains and Automobiles is a comedic classic that also happens to be a classic road movie. The film starts simply enough, all Neal Page (played by Steve Martin) wants to do is get home to his family for Thanksgiving but is hampered by a cancelled flight. Deciding on an alternative means of transport Page is hampered by presence of Del Griffith (John Candy).
What follows is a hilarious three day wild goose chase filled with some of comedy’s classic scenes; there’s the scene where the two drive down the wrong side of the road and Martin imagines Candy morphing into the devil, the infamous “those aren’t pillows!” revelation, Steve Martin’s foul-mouthed tirade at the car rental agent and countless scenes where Neal blames Del for every single miss-hap.
While it would be easy to dismiss Planes, Trains and Automobiles as a comedic Road Movie, it is also one with great heart. After all of their arguments a bond forms between the two and they pull together and finally reach home (yes it’s cliched but it was the 80′s). Then there’s the final revelation; that Del’s wife – of whom a picture is placed on every motel nightstand and Del frequently speaks – has been dead for 8 years and Del has been alone ever since which leads Neal to inviting him into his home for the holidays.
Greeted with critical acclaim upon release, the film has gone on to be considered a classic. All the more noteworthy given that Martin and Candy were still considered as low-brow comedians, the director – John Huhges – was known for his teen angst films, and had produced one of the most highly regarded films of the decade.
Of a less comedic nature but equally as touching, Rain Man was released in 1988 and follows two brothers as they travel across America. Sounds simple enough but Raymond Babbit, portrayed by an Oscar winning Dustin Hoffman, is an autistic savant and his brother Charlie, in one of Tom Cruise’s finest performances, has taken him without permission.
Finding out that his father has left all of his multimillion-dollar estate to a brother, whose existence he new nothing of, Charlie Babbit takes his brother from the care home in an attempt to ransom him for the money he feels he’s owed. The problem is that Raymond won’t fly and so Charlie is forced to drive cross country, as Raymond is also averse to highways, to Los Angeles in his father’s classic car. What follows is a touching story that sees the initially selfish and monetary driven Charlie Babbit developing a relationship with his brother that’s built on something other than greed and even becomes protective of his brother.
Rain Man manages to tick all the boxes of what’s needed to create a great Road Movie. The characters need to start their journey at the same place with a set destination in mind, face and overcome numerous challenges on the way and arrive at their destination changed for them. In this instance Charlie is no longer driven by money and self gratification but has learnt to deal with the needs of those he loves be it his brother or his previously neglected girlfriend.
There’s no point in putting your characters in a car, on a motorcyle or even on a train if they don’t go anyway both physically and personally.
The road and travelling upon it has become a metaphor in many ways and long may it continue to be represented accordingly in films.

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