Boxster Road Trip

I wanted to put together a summary of prior posts because I’ve finally figured out how to link this post to Facebook (I know, I am sometimes technically challenged!).

The Dream

Going on a 48 state (and 2 province) road trip in our 1998 Porsche Boxster and taking our own sweet time seeing our beautiful county.  The plan is to take the northern route from the Bay Area to Boston, timing it so we arrive in Boston in mid-October, to experience the autumn colors.  Then we take the southern route home.

We traded our Marriott Kauai Beach Club timeshare week for a week at Marriott’s Custom House in Boston and, lucky for us, we got the week of October 10 through 17.  During our planning, we discovered airbnb and we have now booked almost our entire trip staying at airbnb places.  Our belief is that we can get a much better experience of a local area by staying with the locals.  In the case of October 31st, it turns out I booked a room in a haunted house (the house is actually on the hanted house tour that evening).  How fun is that?  Needless to say, I will be sharing our experiences in the daily blog (once we hit the road).

Getting the 1998 Porsche Boxster Ready for a 15K Mile Trip

There are things you must do (like getting the car serviced, getting new tires, replacing front struts) and things you just want to do (like replacing the sound system).  We did do all of the mandatory stuff and then moved on to the fun stuff.  We drove up to Car Audio Innovations in Roseville where Rod and his team did a significant upgrade to our sound system.  We now have a Hertz Amplifier and Focal Speakers, and this breathes life into our awesome Kenwood Excelon KDC-X997 Receiver.

I also bought some great after market cup holders from Mike at Ultimate Cupholders (this was a shortcoming in the early Boxsters).

Software, Hardware and other “Techie” Stuff

We chose My Scenic Drives to do the trip planning and we bought a National Geographic Road Atlas (Adventure Edition) for a hardcopy.  I still like something I can write on.  We bought a Garmin nüvi® 50LM and then replaced it with a nüvi® 3590LMT (because the 50LM only allowed for one waypoint).

Put Another Nickel In . . .

Music, music, music!  We have all of our music in MediaMonkey and we have spent the last three months rating it, so we could put the best of our library on a “stick” (or thumb drive, for you techies).  We finished that project today.

So that is about where we are with less than a month to go.

I’ll be blogging about the packing (and seeing if it all fits) next.

Stay tuned . . .

 

 

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