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After my Model S, dog Iceman, and I arrived in Los Angeles aboard two different airplanes, we managed to join up and begin our second mainland road trip. Next stop, San Francisco. Please join us for this next leg of … Continue reading →

Iceman the dog and my Tesla have now been on the mainland for a month, ready to launch this road trip. The problem? Life happens! A pressing issue brought me back to Hawaii for several weeks. During that time, I … Continue reading →

What’s this? My Tesla is getting serious about breaking us free from our bout of Island Fever. The Model S 70D and my dog Iceman were set to depart for LAX on Pacific Air Cargo while I rushed over to … Continue reading →

Breaking news… Iceman the dog and I are diagnosed with a bad case of island fever. Remedy underway. Please see video. More to come soon.

This winter Iceman and I chose to remain in Hawaii. As Christmas approached, the big question was: has Iceman been naughty or nice this year? Several times this year, Iceman thinned out the tourist population on Kailua Beach through his … Continue reading →

A recent article on Bloomberg, I Went Camping in the Trunk of a $145,000 Tesla, highlights the vehicle’s hidden attribute of serving not only as a sports and luxury car, but also as a camper. Author Tom Randall did a … Continue reading →

We know that some crazy drivers have gotten Teslas airborne, but that’s not what I’m talking about. How about thousands of miles covered at a time? Here’s photographic proof that Teslas can indeed fly! All it needed was a little … Continue reading →

The time arrived for yet another important chapter in the Electric Road Trip. A voice in me kept saying “Go west young man and dog,” and it was a voice I could not ignore. And so the Tesla 70D headed … Continue reading →

Many of you have now heard about the Solar Eclipse 2, the electric airplane that is powered by solar panels atop the wing and other structures. The plane has a wingspan longer than a 747’s, and yet it weighs about … Continue reading →

While we were still on the mainland to sample winter, SpaceX chose to launch a rocket from Vandenberg AFB in California. Naturally, Iceman and I headed over there in the 70D to witness the event. I have always been a fan of … Continue reading →

During the winter of 2015/16,I had a chance to drive my Tesla 70D in snow, and it was a delight. While visiting relatives in Reno, Nevada, a snow storm hit, which dumped plenty of white suff on the valley floor … Continue reading →

This road trip began in Hawaii and has been completed in Hawaii. The mainland portion of the trip had a definite beginning and end point, too. Northwest of Lake Tahoe, in the California Sierras, lies a rock climbing mecca near Donner … Continue reading →

AutoP & Nav: Mountain driving strategies

Imagine this: the final day of the road trip would be the toughest of all, with examples of all the tests that a road trip can generate.  The immediate obstacles to the last leg of this road trip: * 870 … Continue reading →

With a deadline looming to complete my trip, I expedited westward movement. The Kansas travel day had included a long run through Oklahoma and Texas. Soon, the route of I-40 covered the same territory as the fabled Route 66. In … Continue reading →

No matter how I reworked my strategy, at least one state would require an extra effort to reach, and in the end that state was Kansas.  How nice it would be to head West from Oklahoma City, but Kansas called. … Continue reading →

One of my most anticipated stops of this trip was at the home of longtime friends Doug and Kathy. In emails, they shared photos of their home, which is built around an aircraft hangar and includes a tall air-traffic-control type … Continue reading →

In all my life I have spent little time near the Gulf of Mexico. Now it was time to change that record. One of the great pluses of traveling in this region is the cajun food. Just across from the … Continue reading →

While at Pensacola I had a chance to visit the Naval Aviation Museum. This is one of the top two or three aviation museums in the world. The aircraft are restored beautifully, guides are knowledgeable, the IMAX theatre is huge, … Continue reading →

I awoke in Savannah, Georgia, a lovely spot. From here my route would take me to Tifton supercharger, Tallahassee, and then to Pensacola. Looking at the Tesla Navigation program, I could see that the suggested routing involved a 90 degree … Continue reading →