What Exciting Places have you driven or dream of driving

[JimLill]

After Bret asked about Paris-Dakar in the track thread, I thought I'd start this one

[Darkworx]

I've driven unrestrictedly in an RS6 in Salzberg. :D BEST drive I've ever had... Then again I'd like to try heavy dirt roads in the Cayenne RS:rolleyes: that'll be nice...but Salzburg! Man I want to do that run again in the Rturbo:rolleyes:

[kbrew8991]

Utah before they reinstated the speed limit in something that can well exceed 200mph

[JimLill]

These days I dream of more race and race track driving, which is pretty exciting.

My exciting past includes:

1972 - self-paced run over the Baja 1000 course of that day

1973 - transversed Engineer's Mtn and Imogine Pass, highest roads in North America

1979 - drove Zambia's "roads" end to end of the country

1980 - drove Haul road and adjacent "roads" of Alaskan Pipeline from Canadian Border to Prudhoe Bay in February

The 1990's, drove and/or explored:

- Lost Quarter area and Northern Desert of Arabian Peninisula
- Kalahari Desert
- Western Sahara in Morroco

So I'm not Robby Gordon, but I have had my fair share of sand!

[jstecher]

I echo Darkworx here and the best drive I have ever made was in an M5 in heading from Munich to Innsbruck Austria. Absolutely some of the most beautiful landscapes and roads ever. Having the M5 made it nice as well, but doing about 14mph on the autobahn thinking I was cool and getting blown by by 3 Porsches was pretty cool.

In the states I just had a great drive up in Superior National Forrest when I picked up my new car. Even with the trailer in tow it was getting the blood pumping. Almost wanted to drop the DSR off the trailer and have at it. :)

[BuZZword]

In 1979 my wife and drove from nw PA to AK. That was when the Alaska Highway was mostly dirt. We drove to Fairbanks, Anchorage, Homer and Seward. Then we drove back down the highway to the Stewart-Cassiar Highway. That road was about 450 miles long and it was made out of dust.
We also drove the road to Hana HI. I have since figured the Hawaiian translation for Hana is Hell.
We drove over the high road that goes betweem the Kona coast and Hilo HI. That goes between Mauna Loa and Mauna Kea. Very impressive.
I drove the Amalfi coast in Italy in 1962 in a VW bus.
I also drove the roads of St. Kitts and Aruba with my wife.

[Conan]

Exciting places I've driven:

Sebring
Road America
Guam -- the absolute GREATEST dirt biking (aka motocross) anywhere!


Places I dream of driving:

"The 'Ring" -- 'nuff said!
Laguna Seca -- must experience the corkscrew
Through the Alps during the summer time in a Ferrari

[Darkworx]

Exciting places I've driven:

"The 'Ring" -- 'nuff said!
Laguna Seca -- must experience the corkscrew
Through the Alps during the summer time in a Ferrari
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:D the RING is a wower!

[Stack]

There's a neat little place in western North Carolina... Ken might know a little something about it by now...

Tail of the Dragon at Deal's Gap... www.tailofthedragon.com ... R&T had a nice little write-up about it a couple issues ago.

I've driven it in the Z (well, part of it anyway, long story) and I'd like to go back up there in the Bimmer sometime when its not so crowded

[jstecher]

I have heard quite a bit about that drive Stack. Sounds like a lot of bikers are on it all the time as well as I know its a popular harley trip.

[Stack]

I have heard quite a bit about that drive Stack. Sounds like a lot of bikers are on it all the time as well as I know its a popular harley trip.

There's all kinda of spots like that up and down the NC/Tennessee border (and any state that borders mountains I'd imagine)... Most of the Dragon is on the Tennessee side, and the best thing about it is how silky smooth the asphalt is... very much like a newly paved racetrack, except of course for the rockface and endless vertical drops :D

[kbrew8991]

Its a pretty decent mountain road

there are ones that are just as nice, not as autocrossey (is that a word?) and not as crowded all over this region tho :)