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bootlegga Premium account Joined: Jul 04 Points: 15194 Posts: 124 Posted: 2004-11-05 19:57:00    Has there even been a discussion on having a section for road trips? I know that when I travel, I tend to go on long road trips, and while I might not visit any great city or town, the whole trip is better than say a flight to LA to see Disneyland (IMHO). I know that there are travel reports and the travellog sections, which together kind of cover this. But travel reports are too specific, and travellogs are only read if someone really digs around your profile. For example, this summer I drove from Edmonton to Kelowna, then into Idaho, went through Montana and then returned to Alberta. The biggest place I visited had maybe 50,000 people and none of them would make for a decent report at all. I've written some stuff for my travellog, but with only one pic per entry, it's not very inspiring. I don't know what others think, but I know that this is how many North Americans do at least some of their travelling. I'm sure European and Australian members might also benefit from a section like this. I think something like this would essentially be a larger travel report with more pictures allowed and a different set of sections (you don't find many nightclubs in the Rockies). If bandwidth is a problem, then only make it a feature that only those with 500 or 1000 Globo points can access. --- "Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness." – Mark Twain Reply    Reply with quote    Contact bootlegga   rangutan Premium account Joined: Aug 04 Points: 34752 Posts: 1044 Posted: 2004-11-05 20:50:00    I love the road. One is somewhat free and flexible to travelling, not like by plane or rail. Accomodations never a problem, small hotels and guestrooms between cities are rarely full, except if there a wedding in town - which happened once outside Berlin! I like the choice between freeway and country road depending on time or the country side, like round trips, two of which I love most: 4-DAY-ALPS: Munich - Lindau(Bodensee) - Schwarzwald(Black-Forest) - Basel - Como(Lake) - Garda(Lake) - Bolzana - Innsbruck - Munich 4-DAY-CAPE: Johannesburg - Kimberley - Cape Town - Knysna - Port Elizabeth - Bloemfontein - Johannesburg --- Rudolf "Rangutan" Graspointner Reply    Reply with quote    Contact rangutan   mortimer Premium account Joined: Jun 04 Points: 15075 Posts: 528 Posted: 2004-11-05 22:36:00    Hi James I too, do travel most of the time this way. Not only by car sometimes on bicycle, on motorbike or on foot... My two top rated reports are both about several places we were on a route. I think Andy is planing on reports about regions like national parks ... What I did is take the most appopriate city and write about the trip. I did use all the text boxes but didn't stick to the suggested content of the box I mostly explained that in the first phrase of each section. Martin --- Today is the first day of the rest of your life, enjoy it! Reply    Reply with quote    Contact mortimer   ta-shy Joined: Jun 02 Points: 4110 Posts: 170 Posted: 2004-11-08 14:15:00    I just did a road trip on a $20 dare. (go to Lumby BC take a pic of the welcome signs) It's 10 hrs from Edmonton and you have to travel through Banff, the interior mts to Vernon and then south to Lumby. It took 2 days with stopovers in Banff. I did it just because I had nothing going on for weekend. Very beautiful place but it is very small I will write it in my report . Although it isn't spectacular by "tourist" means, the trip was nice enough through the Interior Mts and into the Okanagan. p.s. collected my $ tonight. --- LIFE IS AN ATTITUDE! ALWAYS DO WHAT YOU WISH YOU COULD! ALWAYS! Reply    Reply with quote    Contact ta-shy   ravinderkumarsi Premium account Joined: Aug 04 Points: 14003 Posts: 451 Posted: 2004-11-09 06:27:00    well i think road trip is very convinient at oldand hilly cities like varanasi or some town of nepal as seen from the martins reports and pictures of nepal.. here you can see many minute things which usually get unnoticed . ravi --- at bangalore /back 2 globo after a long Reply    Reply with quote    Contact ravinderkumarsi   marianne Premium account Joined: Sep 03 Points: 20248 Posts: 349 Posted: 2004-11-09 18:46:00    I think a section on road trips would be very convenient now we can only write about one city. Andy, would it be possible to give us a road trip format? Marianne --- “I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.” Robert Louis Stevenson Reply    Reply with quote    Contact marianne