It’s a fading, crumbling snapshot of America as aspiring industrial superpower and as self-contained promised land.…
I woke up in a van in a Walmart parking lot in Phoenix, certain that I was choking.
I should have known that things were off to a bad start when the airport check-in kiosk wouldn’t read my passport.
It started, I think, as a joke.
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There is nothing particularly enjoyable about the ribbon of asphalt that is I-95—especially when you’re forced to…
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Throughout this series I’ve explored roads mainly in the north and south of Tokyo. For obvious reasons exploring the…
We at Jalopnik get a lot done at our home base deep underground, beneath an artificial mountain somewhere in New…
Over Thanksgiving weekend, I drove my 255,000 mile 1992 Jeep Cherokee 1,300 miles from Michigan to and from…
There are few things as freeing as going on a road trip. You load up your car with friends, family, food and luggage…
A month ago my colleague Raphael Orlove and I set off on a drive from Seattle to New York in a 1970 BMW 2500. Since…
Look at the picture above. That’s the dream. Your beautiful old car, out in some picturesque corner of the world,…
NEW YORK—Six days. Nearly 3,000 miles. Thirteen states. Almost 50 hours of driving. And through it all, zero…
LODI, WI.—Hello. This update on the Bavaria vs. America road trip will be brief because we’re trying to haul ass to…
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BILLINGS, MT.—The bar we are in informs us, via loudspeaker, that “Power Hour” is soon to occur. Some inadvisable…
Patrick George and Raphael Orlove will be heading across the country in a nearly-fifty-year-old BMW, embarking…
Tomorrow, Raphael Orlove and I will attempt to do the... well, not impossible, but tricky and slow and cold: we’re…