Newsflash!! Porsches are made to be driven!! Earlier this month I drove our GTS up to Gig Harbor WA and back: 2496 miles RT in 3 driving days. The ODO crossed 42,000 miles during the trip. Today we are in Annandale VA. We drove the Macan S (4 days/3 nights on the road), leaving O'side Tuesday AM. Took delivery of this vehicle on April 13th. It now has over 5200 miles on the ODO. Ran 70-80 mph for most of the trip: 25 to 28 mpg. Reckon we'll hit close to the 10,000 service interval by the time we get home next month. Comfy road vehicle!! Not a single back, leg, knee or whatever ache notwithstanding 10-12 hours in the saddle/day. And finally, finally I stopped to see "The Thing!!" Heebie Jeebies for sure!! "You can Google that," my son advised. I didn't want to Google it. I wanted to see it in person, and I did!! Driving all the way across the USA is very educational. This is my 3rd cross-country drive in 4 years. We have a big, beautiful, diverse country. Get past New Mexico heading east and things are GREEN with WATER everywhere. Creeks with running water. Rivers. Lakes. And trees, trees and more trees!!
All of those nameless, faceless bureaucrats (who get paid every two weeks whether they show up for work or not) working to "Little Napoleon-style" regulate all 50 states from inside the WashDC "bubble" need to do the same. The new car dealers (Ford, Chevy, GMC, Dodge) along the interstate have thousands of BIG pickups in stock. Not a single Nissan Leaf, Honda Prius, much less a Tesla, to be seen. Between the "Hollywood/Moonbeam" West Coast and the DC Bubble/New York "Kennedy Center/Broadway" East Coast the rest of the USA is actually WORKING using TRUCKS. Mud covered diesel-powered pick ups fitted with mata de burros hauling everything from cattle trailers to generators to whatever. Coffee at a truck stop? $1.00. Friendly people? For sure. And we had a deadline so stuck to the interstate. Going back home, reckon to drive some off-interstate highways. Scheduled stops: North Carolina, Texas and Oklahoma. Others? Who knows. Looking forward to it.