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After a week of near perfect weather, frigid temperatures returned over the weekend; however, I was not too broken up about since it gave me an excuse to stay inside most of the weekend and enjoy some of the great auto racing that was going on. I was going through withdrawals after the end of [...]
When I was trying to think of a name for this Blog, concepts like “adventures with style” or “civilized adventures” kept coming to mind. That’s because, while we don’t believe in always taking the easy route, we also don’t believe in roughing it for no reason at all. As Thomas Ritter, president of Unicat–a company that builds [...]
The Official Google Blog reports that BMW drivers in Germany can now send addresses from Google Maps directly to their BMW’s navigation system. This is one of many innovations that automakers and after-market equipment manufacturers are pioneering to make cars more “connected”. There is even a service that allows owners to track their vehicles via the [...]
Ocean voyaging in small boats has long been the exclusive domain of sailing yachts. This is primarily due to the fact that most motorboats are extremely inefficient. Most production motorboats have planning hulls so-called because they “plane” over the water rather than plow through it. The problem is that it takes a lot of power [...]
Spring has arrived in the Mid-Atlantic in spurts and stalls. This is evidenced by the fact that—a week after the biggest snow storm of the winter in our area—this past Saturday dawned to beautiful clear skies and 65-degree F weather. We were eager to take advantage of the weather and do some two-up riding in [...]
One vehicle that has the cachet of the Defender and is available in the US-in some form at least-is the Mercedes Benz G-class. A type 461 G-class was featured in a recent Sahara trek article in Motor Trend’s Truck Trend magazine written by Tom Sheppard, who wrote the definitive work on vehicle-dependent expeditions. Sheppard’s “G-wagen” [...]
Overland travel is probably the most accessible form of adventure travel for the average amateur adventurer. Having been born in an island, I always assumed that I would travel the world aboard a cruising sailboat. When I moved to America, I began to recognize the possibilities that overland travel could offer without the complications and [...]
