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My trip to Germany in 2012 took me to the legendary Nürburgring

My partner Stacy and I love to travel. Cheaply. Like really really cheaply. We've been to Europe many times together, and have yet to pay more than $500 each round trip. We are notoriously frugal on airfare, and would prefer to save a few bucks on the plane ride in exchange for staying another day or so while keeping to the same budget. We both figure, hey, the ride is just a few hours, and we're sleeping through most of it anyway. I'm very fortunate that we both share the sa

I thought this art project would be easier. As a driving instructor, I created many of these maps for use with my students. I'd print out corners to teach my students how to approach a turn, when to brake, turn in, where to apex and positioning the car at the exit. We'd doodle in lines to illustrate what we were doing and what needed to be done. For this, precision and scale are extremely important. For many of my local tracks, I'd stitch together satellite images to drawn in

I've been racing in some form or another for almost 40 years now, so I've always been fascinated by race tracks. From the day I set foot on one, I was hooked. My day job was graphic design and printing prepress, so I found myself wanting to design my own vehicle graphics. Nothing feeds a young driver's ego more than seeing their name on a race car. Racing with a few friends back in the day So, I picked up a used 24" roll-fed cutter with obsolete software on an even older Dell