Wheels

Roads, roads, and more roads. We live on the roads, so we'd be hard pressed not to see interesting vehicles on our travels. I've been collecting up photos of these vehicles since I enjoy anything out of the ordinary. Unfortunately, there are way too few interesting vehicles on the road or in RV parks. Most of what we see in our parks are huge motorhomes. So, I guess I'll start there.


Monster size motorhomes are everywhere. And, really, I can't talk. We are pulling a train ourselves. Where the motorhomes are massive in height, we are massive in length. Still, do the huge motorhomes have to pull Hummers or long trailers? I see this and think we wouldn't have to have sold our furniture and put anything in storage, we could have brought it with us like these folks seem to have done.

Of course, there are those who do the complete opposite and travel across the country with almost nothing. Like this cyclist in Joshua Tree National Park, CA:



or this biker in Prince George, Canada:



Every once in a while we see people with tiny teardrop or A-frame trailers:

Yosemite LakesThousand Trails Campground, California

Silicon Valley, California

I assume that most people with these small vehicles are simply camping and will not be living in their vehicles for long periods of time. However, we've met several couples who have been on a road trip from Argentina to Alaska lasting over two years. They travel and sleep in these:

Glacier National Park, Montana

Valdez, Alaska

Europeans and Australians, on the other hand, tend to like tank-like motorhomes:

Europeans at Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming

Europeans at Stewart, British Columbia, Canada

Early in our trip we visited a Mennonite community where we came across lots of these:

Versailles, Missouri

Rangers in the national and state parks can often be found driving these electric vehicles:

Itasca State Park, Minnesota

Death Valley National Park, California

Interestingly, in some cities the police have started driving the electric cars as well:



San Francisco, California

Police driving those electric cars might feel a bit less than macho, but at least they aren't stuck with the patrol cars used to control speed in Canada:

Yukon Territories, Canada

In Canada and Alaska vehicles look a bit different than in the areas I've lived most of my life. Here are some forms of transportation in our nation's largest state:

Dog sled, Denali National Park, Alaska

Snowmobile, Yukon, Canada

Ice cream/Expresso truck, Valdez, Alaska

Hovercraft, Fairbanks, Alaska

Alaska, of course, is not the only place with interesting vehicles. California has talent there as well:

Joshua Tree National Park, California

San Francisco, California

Slab City, Niland, California

Salvation Mountain, Niland, California

Sadly, we have found very few art cars. So I took pics of all of them:


From the Tea Party protest in Minnesota.


Found in Slab City, California.


Part of Salvation Mountain, California.


In front of the Visitor Center, Prince George, British Columbia, Canada.


Near Yosemite, California


Bald Eagle car found in Fairbanks, Alaska


Painted live in school bus of Slab City, California


We followed this car in Arkansas.

More often than art cars, we see antiques:

Parked at a rest area in Oregon.

Olympic National Park, Washington

Heritage Park, Alaska

Fort Nelson, British Columbia, Canada

Fort Nelson, British Columbia, Canada

Terlingua, Texas