Road Trips & Overland Travel The Blue Ridge Parkway: A Practical Guide to Driving Appalachia’s Scenic Spine Four hundred and sixty-nine miles of two-lane blacktop that never rushes, connecting two national parks through some of the oldest mountains on the continent. The speed limit is 45 mph for most of the way, and that is … Read more
Road Trips & Overland Travel The Utah National Parks Road Trip: A Practical Guide to the Mighty Five Five national parks, one looping highway, and a week of red-rock scenery that somehow looks bigger in person than in every photo you’ve already seen. The photos lie. Updated August 2026 · 14 min read There is … Read more
Road Trips & Overland Travel The Pacific Coast Highway: A Practical Guide to Driving California’s Highway 1 California’s Highway 1 is the rare road that matches its reputation. Here’s how to drive it well, from the Golden Gate to the Mexican border. Updated August 2026 · 14 min read There is a short stretch of … Read more
Road Trips & Overland Travel Driving Baja California: A Practical Guide to the Tijuana-to-Cabo Road Trip Mexico’s peninsula is one long invitation to keep the windows down. Here’s how to drive it from border to cape without the guesswork. Updated August 2026 · 14 min read There is a moment on Mexican Federal Highway 1, … Read more
Road Trips & Overland Travel The Alaska Highway: Driving the Last Frontier Road The ALCAN is not the loneliest road in North America anymore, but the 1,387 miles from Dawson Creek, British Columbia to Delta Junction, Alaska can still feel like one. Drive it right. Updated August 2026 · 12 min read The Alaska Highway … Read more
Road Trips & Overland · Practical Guide The advertised rate says $18 a day. The counter says $61. The border says no. Renting a car in Latin America is straightforward once you understand the three places the industry makes its real money — and the one assumption that gets travellers stranded. Updated August 2026 · … Read more
Road Trips & Overland · Argentina Five thousand kilometres from the Bolivian border to the edge of the Southern Ocean, past wine valleys, painted deserts, thirteen national parks and the emptiest horizon in the Americas. Ruta 40 is the road trip South America measures itself against. Updated August 2026 · 17 min read · Links … Read more
Road Trips & Overland · USA The Mother Road turned one hundred this year. It was officially decommissioned four decades ago, and somewhere between those two facts lies the truth about what a Route 66 trip actually is in 2026 — and why this is the year to take it. Updated August 2026 · 17 … Read more
Road Trips & Overland · The Big One Prudhoe Bay to Ushuaia is roughly 30,000 kilometres, sixteen countries, one impossible jungle gap, and at least four months of your life. Here’s what the world’s longest road trip demands — before you sell the house. Updated August 2026 · 18 min read · Links verified live … Read more