All right, here we go
This is my travel section. Welcome.
Now through many requests from emails that I’ve received the last year and
a half, people always suggested that if I were to get a web page that I
would have to include a “travelogue” section in it. A continuance of the
page that Blair and I used to write at mtv. As of right now I haven’t
aptly named it the “travelogue out of respect for my friend first,
producer second Amy at mtv.com. But I feel this needs to be done. The
people need to know advice. Many young people who are in smaller stages
of road tripping….
Just because I lived in an RV for a
few months really doesn’t give me any concrete evidence of expertise in
terms of how to properly live on the road and prepare a road trip, this
certificate that I own says I do. It was made out of yellow construction
paper by a 3rd grader named Mitchell, a student I’ve taught,
and it says, in olive green crayon. “Presented to Mr. Mikey, a master
teacher and master driver.” Need any other proof? Don’t think so.
Ok. But even before the whole show I
took road trips and traveled all the time. Some trips were absolutely
pointless, such as driving 16 hours from Kansas to Atlanta for the 1996
Olympics and not attending a single event cause we only had 70 each, to
some entertaining ones as driving 54 hours from Missouri to LA via route
66.
As long as I can remember I’ve always
been driving, I’ve only been able to recall the last 9 years of my life
starting when I was 16, which at the time I was driving. Actually,
kidding aside I was always used to driving for long periods and trips.
Growing up in a military family, every time we moved my father always made
it a point that we turned the move into a moving/road tripping/super
vacation extravaganza type of thing. Always taking a long route. We were
moving from Kansas to Tennessee and we turned it into a
semi-circumnavigation of the northern territory of the US, by going to
Minneapolis, Milwaukee then south to Chicago before settling into the land
of dolly parton. I put great pride in my vehicles. Going through 6 in a
year in a half. I’ll include those profiles later.
My first car was the Mazda, I had it
since I was 16. A hand me down. It had 77,000 when I got it. When it
finally died 7 years later it had 222,196 miles on it. Just 26 short
miles away from the 222,222. Damn that high octane gas. Details on that
later.
I’ve had my Grand Vitara, aka handsome
reward, for 17 months and already has racked up 49,000 miles. And will hit
the 50,000 mark probably before you read this. I drive. A lot. I've had
some great and not so great driving experiences. Over the durations of
these trips i've learned many helpful tips throughout. I'm only going to
give a couple though for now. They're long as hell, and plus you need an
excuse to keep coming back. And be sure to share anything you have to
offer in terms of this at
travel@steveuncentered.com
