Road Tripping a Porsche Boxster Spyder to Flavortown
Road Tripping a Porsche Boxster Spyder to Flavortown
There’s no good way to get from Los Angeles to Santa Rosa, CA. It’s 443 miles. You can fly, but the closest airport is still a 90-minute drive once you touch down. Even so, my broken spine’s cut off for flying is about 350 miles, but I don’t typically have a European-spec 2020 Porsche Boxster Spyder with an honest-to-god, 4.0-liter engine, do I? Road Tripping a Porsche Boxster Spyder to Flavortown.
Flavortown, USA, as Santa Rosa is colloquially known, is the home of Chef Guy Fieri (pronounced Fieddi), his family, and the grocery store studio in which Chef and his crew are busy producing the twentieth (!) season of Guy’s Grocery Games. The Mayor of Flavortown was taping a special episode of the series in honor of my late friend Chef Carl Ruiz, who passed away suddenly last month. Carl, on top of being Guy’s Chef de Cuisine in many of his restaurants over the years, was the winningest chef in Triple-G history. He will be remembered by many for his food, but by many more knew him for the way he connected good people. Road Tripping a Porsche Boxster Spyder to Flavortown.
Every time I hung out with Carl, I learned something, I laughed my ass off, and I met someone new; someone almost, but never quite as interesting as Carl. He always said I’d like Guy–that we would get and respect each other. Now Guy was having a thing for Carl and I wanted to go. I wasn’t exactly invited, but as I would later learn, any friend of Carl’s is always welcome in Flavortown. Road Tripping a Porsche Boxster Spyder to Flavortown.
I had to get up at four. That would be the obvious way to clear the hell out of L.A. before anyone was awake. You’d think 5 or 5:30 a.m. would be enough of a head start on rush hour to make excellent time, but in a city of that size, you’d be wrong. But only Uber airport runners and the select few road trippers who hate traffic as much as I do are on the road at four. None of those folks had a problem with my pace, which had to be impressive in order to perfectly time my crossing of San Francisco later that morning. Road Tripping a Porsche Boxster Spyder to Flavortown.
Though my original commitment involved doing the entire drive with the Spyder’s top removed, second thoughts reminded me that GT-spec carbon bucket seats would provide sufficient martyrdom for one weekend. And, I should probably test the car with the top both up and down. I downloaded several podcasts, filled up my largest Yeti with thirty-plus ounces of fine Panamanian coffee, and enjoyed having LA’s freeway system entirely to myself in the most fitting way possible: with the right foot down.
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