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Pyrenees, Northern Spain, South of France.

Planning changes with the times.

With some fourteen years of road trips with my adult son, we are modifying some earlier how-to's to accommodate 1. Rental car size;  2. Trips technology; 3. Homeland Security assists; 4. Luggage limits; 5. Playing the theft odds.

Figueres, Spain. Salvador Dali Museum. Big car.  Do you really need that for a simple road trip.

1.  Rental car size. Class C for ease. Not the tempting but misleading B, that is really a huge car. This is counter-intuitive.  If you are using Hertz, choose a Class C car if you want access in little villages, blending in, and street parking.

Getting the Idea Across Fast

With this online, we can translate the basics in a flash, go anywhere, and not reinvent the wheel each time. We are heading off to Barcelona, Pyrenees and South of France.  French I know, enough.  Spanish:  need more help. 

Conversation, getting and giving information, requires fast reference. Language glossaries in guide books are useless for day-to-day use, inconvenient, too too.
TRIPS INDEX- The Ad Hoc Ersatz Car-Dan Tour Company
TRIPS INDEX- The Ad Hoc Ersatz Car-Dan Tour Company
TOP PHOTO. Kalmar Castle, Sweden.
TOP PHOTO. Kalmar Castle, Sweden.
Visit first, read about it later. Too much advance information is overwhelming.
Chablis France
Chablis France
Chablis France
Dan and Vintner; farmhouse tasting
Welcome to Europe Road Ways, our own trips. Find a map and a guidebook and go.
Welcome to Europe Road Ways, our own trips. Find a map and a guidebook and go.
We began the easy way: We chose Ireland several years ago, with its similar language and food, its small geographical area comparatively, some family roots, and we had only to cope with driving on the left.

From that, we branched out to see other countries and regions in Europe, each trip some two weeks. We eat and sleep wherever, and have so far found consistently safe and clean places. We cross borders freely (no itinerary). How to find us if we disappear? We carry lots of ID, register at consulates or embassies sometimes, and email home our plans as we make them.

Side benefits: For parent-child travel, the child becomes adult, a full participant in decisions. Whether related to the trips or just Himself, Dan has developed substantial street-smarts, and is a history buff. He is an inquisitive, responsible citizen of a larger world.

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