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What separates a decent road trip from an epic one? Freestyle or itemized? Van or recumbent tricycle? Taking the most offbeat route or finding the edge in an ordinary one? These days getting off the beaten path has become the cliché – there isn’t even a reason to mention it: even Grammy is trying to avoid the mainstream. California’s coastal Highway 1 gets all the glory, so I decided to drive the entire length of the main vain – the 101 – from end to end, and found plenty of edges... [Read the full story]

Be prudent. Monitor your partying. Many misadventures occur when we’re under the influence. A buddy of mine and I were hitching across Australia when the two drunk creeps who picked us up suddenly veered off the main road onto a remote dirt byway. They got out of the car and pulled knives on us, demanding our money and packs, which were in the trunk. We were a flash away from being stabbed, and shock gave way to rage. We eluded puncture by clarifying that we were trained in martial arts and that... [Read the full story]