# Looooong Road Trip **URL:** \ **Category:** General Discussion\ **Created:** [May 8, 2018, 8:13am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/looooong-road-trip/116984 "2018-05-08T08:13:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![shanonia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de053/32.png) [@shanonia](https://community.cartalk.com/u/shanonia)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2018, 9:38pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/looooong-road-trip/116984/41 "2018-09-24T21:38:56Z")
Another good read: John Steinbeck’s “Travels with Charlie”. He had a camper mounted in a pickup truck. Charlie was his dog. ---
**Author:** ![Mustangman](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/mustangman/32/44130_2.png) [@Mustangman](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Mustangman)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2018, 9:44pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/looooong-road-trip/116984/42 "2018-09-24T21:44:49Z")
> [@diz\_oh](#): > > thinkin on an AWD Toyota RAV4 Can you actually sleep inside a RAV? Seems a bit on the small side. Or are you going the tent route? At least it is high on the reliability list if well maintained. Had you thought of a Honda Element? They aren’t made anymore and the newest is a 2011. Very van-like and may have more sleep-in room than a RAV. ---
**Author:** ![Scrapyard-John](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f6c823/32.png) [@Scrapyard-John](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Scrapyard-John)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2018, 1:34am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/looooong-road-trip/116984/43 "2018-09-25T01:34:16Z")
Hmmm… I’m in MS. Curious if you remember what the name of nowhere, MS was? I may have been there! ---
**Author:** ![RandomTroll](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/randomtroll/32/12184_2.png) [@RandomTroll](https://community.cartalk.com/u/RandomTroll)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2018, 12:34pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/looooong-road-trip/116984/44 "2018-09-25T12:34:45Z")
> [@Scrapyard\_John](#): > > remember what the name of nowhere, MS Everywhere? ---
**Author:** ![Hirnbeiss](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3ab097/32.png) [@Hirnbeiss](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Hirnbeiss)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2018, 3:01pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/looooong-road-trip/116984/45 "2018-09-25T15:01:59Z")
It wasn’t too far out from Jackson, and it did have an Auto Zone open on a Sunday (pretty much the only place that was). I lucked out because I coasted as far as I could before the needle hit red. The guy was like " Nope, we don’t have an MB radiator hose." I said, “We’ll I’m not leaving until I fix that.”, so he let me rummage through the back to find something that was close enough, and with some help from a razor and some more coolant (yes, sacrilege to MB owners, it was generic coolant), we were soon back on our way to Vicksburg, which is a beautiful spot for all you non-MSers… ---
**Author:** ![diz\_oh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/fbc32d/32.png) [@diz\_oh](https://community.cartalk.com/u/diz_oh)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2018, 5:58pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/looooong-road-trip/116984/46 "2018-10-09T17:58:42Z")
With the Rav, I’d remove the back seats. Somewhere to curl up in, just in case. Elements are amazing. A friend turned me on to them Summer. Thanks for the reminder! ---
**Author:** ![George\_San\_Jose1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e5b9ba/32.png) [@George\_San\_Jose1](https://community.cartalk.com/u/George_San_Jose1)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2018, 2:56am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/looooong-road-trip/116984/47 "2018-10-10T02:56:44Z")
> [@shanonia](#): > > John Steinbeck’s “Travels with Charlie”. Good post. This is one of my favorite road trip books too. It’s such a fun, light-hearted read. Some folks are sort of turned off from Steinbeck from reading “mice and men”, “east of eden”, which can be sort of depressing, but _Travels w/Charlie_ is nothing like that. The only thing sort of bad that happens is Charlie nearly gets in a little dust-up with some bears … lol …it’s a non-fiction account of a big loop around the USA Steinbeck actually took, just he and his standard size French Poodle Charlie. It’s a hoot. Oh, one more funny thing, he names his truck after Don Quixote’s horse … lol … [Previous page](https://community.cartalk.com/t/looooong-road-trip/116984.md?page=2)