June 25 – July 1, 2011 After spending a week in the Netherlands we flew to Milano for the Italian part of this trip. We rented a new FIAT 500 for the trip as it would come in handy for …
Europe 2011 – Garlenda, Italy for Fiat 500 Club Italy
July 1 – 3, 2011 Each year the Fiat 500 Club Italy holds a multi day meeting in Garlenda Italy. Its one of the larges meetings of original Fiat 500s in the world. This was our second time attending the …
Europe 2011 – Centro Storico Fiat – Torino
July 4th, 2011 – Torino Italy The Fiat Historical Center is a museum and company archive based in Turin. It displays cars, airplanes, trains, tractors, trucks, bicycles, washing machines, refrigerators with the Fiat brand . Scale models, reconstructions of parts of the production process, posters and …
Europe 2011 – Fiat Lingotto Factory
July 4th, 2011 Lingotto was built in the 1920s. When Senator Giovanni Agnelli (CEO and majority shareholder) had visited the Ford factory in Detroit, he then decided to expand production by adopting new and evolved production technologies in a state …
Europe 2011 – Museo Nazionale Dell’Automobile
July 5th 2011 The Museo Nazionale dell’Automobile (The National Automobile Museum), founded by Carlo Biscaretti di Ruffia, is an automobile museum in Turin, northern Italy. The museum has a collection of almost 200 cars[2] among eighty automobile brands representing eight countries (Italy, France, Great …
California to NY 2011 – Day 1: San Francisco to Yosemite National Park
It was not easy to leave San Francisco but we have many miles to travel and a bunch of very twisty roads planed by the Dutchmen. I think it must be very difficult for Europeans to understand the vast distances …
California to NY 2011 – Day 2: Oakhurst California to Fallon Nevada
After a long day of twisty, high altitude roads yesterday – we had much more to look forward today. We left the horrid Black Hawk Lodge in Coarsegold CA and drove north on route 41 towards Yosemite park. When we …
California to NY 2011 – Day 3: Fallon Nevada to Burley Idaho
The original route planned by Dinky for crossing Nevada was route 50, also called “America’s Loneliest Highway”. Named so because of the many miles of nothingness that it crosses, without a single town to pass through (save ghost towns). Fortunately …
California to NY 2011 – Day 4: Burley Idaho to Cody Wyoming
Idaho only seemed to look better in the AM because today we were going to see something besides potatoes and wheat fields. Just before we were able to say our goodbyes to Idaho we were subjected to some very steep …
California to NY 2011 – Day 5: Cody Wyoming to Rapid City South Dakota
Total Distance: 650.57 km (404.2 mi) Total Time: 11:26:09 Moving Time: 9:06:21 Average Speed: 56.89 km/h (35.3 mi/h) Average Moving Speed: 71.44 km/h (44.4 mi/h) Max Speed: 137.77 km/h (85.6 mi/h) Min Elevation: 981 m (3217 ft) Max Elevation: 2727 …
California to NY 2011 – Day 6: – Rapid City South Dakota to Sioux Falls
We awoke early eager to depart Rapid City – this day we had a interesting place to see other then the endless tarmac of Interstate 90. Today we had plans to visit the Badlands National Park. After only an hour …
California to NY 2011 – Day 7:- Sioux Falls SD to Madison WI
Tired from the previous days long hot drive we did not spend much of the past evening exploring Sioux Falls and the morning found us at our typical first stop – an independent coffee shop. In my efforts to show …