What's better on a crisp fall day than perfect foliage, winding country roads and expensive automobiles? Not much. Head to Ogden, Quebec (close to the VT border) with your roadster to take in Art and the Automobile, a four-day festival October 2-5 featuring a car show, art exhibition, car rally and photography workshop.
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by sedona
Anyone who has a fond memory of devouring the journeys in Tintin books is going to be a bit jealous of a British guy who's about to recreate the trip Tintin took in Land of Black Gold.
Barrimore England-Davis, major Tintin fan, has done up a vintage Jeep and will be driving through Spain and then across the desert in Morocco--along with a friend, and a dog named Snowy after Tintin's faithful hound.
The journey's scheduled to take six weeks and we're wondering if England-Davis plans to then follow a few more of Tintin's journeys. We're especially curious about what's going to happen when he sets out on Tintin's trips to fictional lands like Sao Rico, Syldavia or Borduria.
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· Tintin Fan's Epic Trip [Ananova]
· Road Trips Coverage [Jaunted]
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by amandak
A friend of Jaunted decided to go on the Rental Car Rally this past weekend, after we hyped it in a post in July. So was the "36-hour adventure" as awesome as it sounded back then? Not exactly:
Rental Car Rally started off in a great location, Water Taxi Beach in Queens. There was a great turnout, great costumes, a lot of energy, a great view and there were lots of creative vehicles. Coordinates for the checkpoints were handed out, and we were off shortly after midnight.
With 60 teams at $150 dollars each, the promise of a $1,000 grand prize seemed potentially stingy depending on all the swag that we might get at checkpoints. (Turns out there was none to be had.) Not only were the finances questionable, but we learned the scoring wasn't very transparent either. Scoring was mostly subjective (best costumes, best ride, proof of speeding tickets and shenanigans) and did not include shortest travel time.
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by pbb
File under: Coolest ideas ever. The Rental Car Rally is a 36-hour adventure that leaves NYC at Midnight on August 15. Racers gun it up to Montreal, make a pit stop at a massive party and then turn around for another party back in New York.
The event's organized by the same crew that invented Wiimbledon--yep, a Wii tennis tourney--and the water gun battle that is Street Wars; you know it's gonna be good. Interested? You've gotta put together a team and then register ahead of time to get maps and GPS coordinates. (Sign up here.)
Oh, and it's not just a test of your interstate cruising skills: The rally heads over back roads and you have to hit checkpoints along the way to stay in the race. As for the prize money for the winning rally team? It's paid in euros.
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· Rental Car Rally [Official Site]
· Rental Car Rally [Thrillist, via]
· Montreal Travel coverage [Jaunted]
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Buy a big drill, and everyone starts thinking you're going to dig a tunnel between two continents. That's what happened to Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich after he handed over $160 million for the biggest drill in the world.
We've been drooling over the idea of a US to Russia road trip ever since rumors began about the Bering Strait tunnel project a year ago. When Abramovich bought a massive drill last week, well, the rumors really started heating up.
But don't go booking your rental cars just yet. Apparently the real story is something closer to doing some infrastructure works around Sochi on the Black Sea, which will host the 2014 Winter Olympics. Nice, but nowhere near as exciting as a tunnel joining Russia and the United States. Perhaps we'll have to dig it ourselves.
Related Stories:
· Rumors Billionaire Will Tunnel to America [news.com.au]
· Billionaire Denies Dream of Transcontinental Tunnel [Russia Today]
· Bering Strait Tunnel Project: OMG! Ultimate Road Trip! [Jaunted]
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For those of you planning college road trips this fall, The Princeton Review's Top Party Schools list may be the single most important piece of travel planning information you can procure. West Virginia University tops the 2008 list knocking University of Texas from the top spot.
The photo above of a West Virginia cheerleader flying high at the WVU-Mississippi State football game last fall helps illustrate the constant state of boisterous merrymaking that engulfs WVU.
We have the full 2008 list here, including the top 10 "Stone Cold Sober" schools, with a photo from the campus of sober champ BYU. What is that old saying? Every picture tells a story?
The Princeton Review's Top 10 Party Schools and Top 10 Sober Schools.
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by markj
New York Times travel columnist Matt Gross is living the dream. He works for a publication that can afford to send him all over the world. While he feigns "roughing it" as The Frugal Traveler title implies, he has $100 a day to work with, which would be plenty to keep us comfortable.
Seven weeks ago, he departed for a road trip across the United States. Apparently, he's working hard for the $100 a day. Matt's unearthed some virtually unknown cultural landmarks in unassuming Middle America.
Highlights of his trip include Bardstown, Kentucky or the "the ancient heart of bourbon country;" architecture finds in Columbus, Indiana, a counter-culture community in southwest Wisconsin, and Viatnamese dining in Oklahoma City. Between stops, driving the long, slow hills and flat stretches of land between destinations consumes the rest of his writing.
We wrote similar diary entries driving to visit our grandparents in Boca as kids, but those didn't ever make the Times' travel section.
Related Stories:
· Frugal Traveler coverage [Jaunted]
· Road Trips coverage [Jaunted]
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by ced138
In this jet-setting, $10-a-flight world, we think that sometimes there isn't enough love given to four-wheel quests for the bizarre roadside tourist traps anymore. Thus we introduce you to the Wonder Tower in Genoa, Colorado. Stuck on a parched stretch of I-70 between Denver and Kansas, this once-popular spot seems to be crowded when you pull up -- until you realize all of the "people" on the tower are pieces of wood wrapped with fabric. Hmmm.
The tower's claim to fame is that, apparently, you can see six states from the top. We can neither confirm or deny that, but we can tell you that the knick-knack-stuffed basement below is much more interesting than squinting at what may or may not be Wyoming.
Every bit of the museum located underneath the tower (including the old restaurant kitchen) is packed with two-headed animals, bizarre old medical equipment, and ridiculous ephemera. Basically: the place is amazing, but unpretentious about it. If you're ever driving across the country, take I-70.
Hours: 8 am - 8 pm
Phone: 719-763-2309
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·Colorado Hotel Reviews [HotelChatter]
·Tourist Traps [Jaunted]
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