28 states in 22 days, on a broke-ass budget in a stripper Toyota pickup - Autoweek
Just about exactly 20 years ago, a formative road trip around the country. In April of 1995, I was between jobs (i. e, I was working a dozen office- and warehouse-temp gigs a month, so in a sense I was always between jobs), about to lose my apartment in San Francisco's Mission District, and pretty much free to go on a... Being a wheels-and-asphalt sort of traveler, I got together with my friend (and future brother-in-law), Jim, and we loaded up his zero-options 1988 Toyota Hilux with camping equipment and hit the road for a wild-eyed 22-day circumnavigation of the... I've told the story of the now-legendary "Orange Tape" mix cassette I made for this trip, and now here's the story of the trip itself. In the United States, the Hilux was known as "the Toyota truck" (this was typical of the don't-mess-around-with-complicated-names company that later named its luxury sedan the LS and its sport coupe the SC ), and Jim had bought his new after a... Jim had been working for a nationwide anti-nuclear political organization for many years, and so he had connections with radical peaceniks in major cities all around the country. Source: autoweek.com
