27-05-2025
How to Plan the Perfect Summer Drive, According to Road Trip Veterans
In the last month, Steve Pelletier has driven more than 5,000 miles in his 1986 Porsche 911, winding through the back roads from his home in Portland, Oregon, down through California's Big Sur to Santa Barbara, Mammoth Lakes and beyond.
The former NIKE Inc staffer who founded Donuts & Drip, an automotive lifestyle brand, used to spend months crisscrossing the globe on work trips to Asia but now says he can't get enough of the open road. It's calming to him in a way air travel never was. 'Driving somewhere scenic and just hanging out, drinking coffee or eating snacks and just enjoying the vibes, soaking in the energies out there—that's what I'm about,' Pelletier says. 'There are some long days and some boring stretches, but I found my nice roads.'
