You pull into one of the hundreds of thousands of petroleum dispensing stations along the highway. Put the nozzle in the tank, wash the windshield, buy a soda in the conveniently attached non-petroleum product dispensing establishment, ...

We have to stop going to California; that’s the bottom line. First, they (the ports) put emission standards on who could go into the ports in the Los Angeles area.

I was driving home from work on a two-lane mountain highway (one lane in each direction) with no passing lanes. The speed limit there is 45 MPH with an occasional 35 MPH on a tight curve. I and dozens of other poor fools got stuck ...

We drove up Highway 101 along the ocean and through some neat towns. We somehow managed to get into California without a state map, so we did stop at a drug store and pick one up, only to find out that the detailed map does not go as ...

Now here’s where I’ll recommend cutting over to Highway 101 to discover a California city with a decidedly Danish twist, Solvang. I found it utterly charming, with stores offering delicate lace and handmade quilts, Danish cuisine in ...

Drive back down Hwy 101 and pick up sights you missed on the way: When you find a bridge with Golden Bears, take a sharp right onto a small highway and find a fake farmhouse with a stunning view that used to be a submarine watching ...

As I walked along the road away from that dreadful parking area, I slipped into that amazing place-beyond-words between the camera and the world around me. At some point a man came out to check his mailbox. "Looks like that barn could ...

“This is the kind of place where you realize Americans like to feel full, quick,” muses Verlyn Klinkenborg in this week’s New York Times, on the most ordinary of places, another American highway rest stop. It’s the type of place known ...

In his footsteps came missionaries and the soldiers who built forts and 21 missions along the coast, calling their track El Camino Real, the King’s Highway, that served as the main north-south California road till 1926 when US 101 was ...

"The all-wheel-drive system with electronic limited slip effectively transfers torque not only from front to rear, but also along the rear axle. This system sets a new benchmark for all all-wheel-drive systems, giving the driver control ...