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Did you know that November is National Model Railroad Month (NMRM) here in the U.S. of A.? No? Well, how could you, really, unless you rode one every day or so. Most of us only use the model railroad very occasionally, and it’s generally an occasion for bedazzled wonder. Daily model railroad commuters have it [...]

There was a time, not all that long ago, when we imagined most of our life would be spent living in a beautiful train, airplane or space shuttle that was finished with only the most elegant and extravagant furniture and gadgets, and from which we would run our global resistance movement while evading the evil [...]

You know, it’s not just people that wear costumes on Halloween–you filthy humanist!–cars, vans, buses and motorcycles gotta get their “trick or treat” on too. And we’re not just talking about the dog-mobile from Dumb & Dumber, there are innumerable real-world examples of vehicles dressing up as other things (no, not Transformers). Cool Material has [...]

During a summer bike trip down the West coast of North America some years ago, we passed a broken down clown car and couldn’t help but offer assistance to the unfortunate performers in peril. In true clown transportation tradition, we managed to fit eight clowns on our bike in various precarious ways, which we’re pretty [...]

Today is Name Your Car Day, a truly ridiculous occasion that we can only hope will soon be replaced by Name Your Bike Day (ours is called Kandinsky). In the meantime, though, we kind of appreciate the idea of treating cars like boats and giving them names, it makes something so hard and mechanical a [...]

In the ongoing saga of the latest plague to hit roads and highways the world over, people who can’t keep themselves from texting on their cell phones while at the wheel are killing themselves and others. Maybe we should start organizing Texters Anonymous meetings for them? Whatever has to be done about it, texting and [...]

Remember the way-back-when days when airlines and their employees were the coolest members of society? Pilots were like rich playboys and flight attendants their herem of sexily uniformed sky-babes, and they all partied high above our heads in floating discotheques. Let’s revisit those days before shoe-bomb scares, liquids in ziplocked bags, nutty fees and taxes [...]

We used to dream of taking a summer off, buying an old Volkswagen van, giving it a totally rad paint job and cruising around the continent for a few months. As you might imagine, that particular dream never came to pass – the closest we ever got to driving a VW van was when a [...]

A scary and strange news item earlier this week had to do with a Continental Airlines flight between Rio de Janeiro and Houston that encountered such intense turbulence that it had to make an emergency landing in Miami, where 26 passengers were treated for injuries. Many drew parallels to the recent Air France crash, although [...]

Not to brag or anything, but at the end of our first driving test we pretty much had it in the bag, but as we pulled up to the testing center the instructor asked us to back into the only remaining spot in the parking lot, which was impossibly narrow. We totally pulled it off, [...]