Do you ever take yourself off on random drives?

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It is something I love to do in the spring/summer - especially in the evenings and driving till the sun sets, having some great music on whilst driving... ahhh just thinking about it is making me look forward to the spring/summer.

I live in the Yorkshire area (north) of the UK and have some fantastic, beautiful roads to drive on. (LOTS of my roads have been featured on Top Gear).

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Since going electric, I find myself driving more. Sometimes it's just to drive. Unfortunately, I don't have any places as nice as Yorkshire to drive.... Just a lot of concrete and strip malls.
 
kevincwelch said:
Since going electric, I find myself driving more. Sometimes it's just to drive. Unfortunately, I don't have any places as nice as Yorkshire to drive.... Just a lot of concrete and strip malls.
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Electric, ooowww, nice! what have you got!?
 
The Wife will often ask me to go somewhere and get lost.
Does that count?


Bob
 
Here in Pennsylvania we have lots of beautiful roads to drive on but few that look like the photo you've posted.

Really thinking about it, I think every trip in the car for the last 10 years was planned out with destination pre-figured. Now when I'm on a motorcycle it's different. I just point the front wheel north or west and dump the clutch.

I used to drive aimless of destination at least once a month when I was younger. I should really try to do it more often this spring/summer season.
 
Yes I love driving early in morning when the cops are down and many people are asleep. I lower the passages window turn down the music so I can hear if my tires start slipping and just drive. I take in the scenery and the air. Since I drive a truck I have been only been *exploring* once but it was defiantly fun. However many places in texas are marked no trespassing so it's hard to explore in a legal manner.
 
kevincwelch said:
Since going electric, I find myself driving more. Sometimes it's just to drive. Unfortunately, I don't have any places as nice as Yorkshire to drive.... Just a lot of concrete and strip malls.
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just get on Lake St. from Oak Park and go East... fun areas there!.....
 
As much as I loathe winters here in Upstate NY, there is a lot of beautiful scenery during the spring-fall. I often take drives when stressed to stretch out my car. We organize drives with my car buds as well.
 
Yes, I do. At least twice a year. Since I've picked up my GTI it's become an imperative to find places to properly exercise the car.

I live in a terrible area for good driving roads. Most are an hour away at best. I spend hours pouring over Google maps trying to find good road and building out loops. My local Cars and Coffee moved to a location much farther from home, but closer to the roads I've found, so it is now much easier to justify taking the long way home and adding an hour or two to my trip.

I find it to be very therapeutic to blast down some twisty back roads for an hour or two. I put in some shameless 80's Rock music and focus on nothing but the drive...reading the turns, working the clutch and shifter, and listening to the engine. I pop our the other side of my "circuit" a much happier man.

I think it's time to go again...
 
I used to when I lived in New York and wasn't married and didn't have kids. But now things are different and there aren't a whole lot of good driving roads in Houston. I do try and go autocrossing a couple times a year but it's not same taking your car out on a good back road.
 
We just don't have the topography (like the first photo) to warrant really twisty fun roads. If there is a lot of grade change, it was cut and filled to smooth out the road grades.

There are a few places in town that have some fun roads like that (Lake Minnetonka & Inver Grove Heights come to mind). But it's all so developed that you never get a long stretch of empty road.

The first photo looks fairly rural; pretty much anything rural here is farmland and most farm roads are 1 mile straight shots between them.
 
When I was single in Florida, I did this without meaning to do it. Beach driving would suck me in and I would drive forever.
I once left the house to grab a bite to eat and ended up in New Orleans (4 hours away). I then stopped at Sonic for a burger and drove home.
 
I take my Saturn out to take spirited runs behind the hills of Martinez and Orinda in the California Bay Area. We have some twisty and fast roads there. Lucky for me, I know those roads very well. A lot of off-camber turns that will put you in the creek if you're not careful. Very narrow as well. Also deer hazards along with bicyclists who share the trails in the afternoon.
 
GenesisCoupe said:
just get on Lake St. from Oak Park and go East... fun areas there!.....
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Although I love the city, it's not exactly a relaxing drive down there!

I have driven through Michigan and Wisconsin on day trips, and these can be nice. I'd really like to take the car out west -- Colorado, Utah, etc. THAT would be a fun drive.
 
I have occasionally in the summer during night time. I drive through tunnels at high RPM just to hear my aftermarket exhaust :D

Music to my ears.
 
Yup, when the wife and kid are away for a bit I'll sometimes take a drive if the weather permits, especially early on the weekends when it's quiet. Lately I've been trying some routes in my area from this site and then detour every once in a while and make my own.

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