Yearly Treat: Cars and Coffee at Ford Greenfield Labs 2026
Every weekend there are “cars and coffee” meetups held all over the world. Getting together on a Saturday or Sunday morning with your friends to sip coffee and talk cars has become a staple of modern car communities, with many clubs organizing monthly meets. In major population centers, chances are you can find a car meet every single weekend. But what about a meet that only happens once a year?
Nestled near the foothills of Palo Alto, California, is Ford’s Greenfield Labs. Silicon Valley is a hotbed for automotive research centers like these: Ford, Nissan, Tesla, Toyota, and VW all have engineering centers in the area, just to name a few. Every once in a while, Ford opens their doors and invites the public to show off their cars and check out Greenfield Labs.
(more…)Fuji Motorsports Museum ~ 富士モータースポーツミュージアム (April 2026)
When you walk through the front door of the Fuji Speedway Hotel, you’re standing at the entrance to the Fuji Motorsports Museum.
To get to the front desk of the hotel, you ride that escalator up to the 3rd floor, enjoying a great preview of the museum in the process. We’ll turn left here and enter the museum on the first floor.
(more…)I Went to Japan Twice (Part 2 – 2026) – Tuesday/Wednesday
This post is part of a continuing series. If you haven’t read the Sunday/Monday post, I suggest starting there before reading this one.
Our plan for Tuesday was a day trip down to Kamakura, a coastal town in Kanagawa Prefecture that’s roughly an hour south of Tokyo by train. My friend Art describes this as the “Santa Cruz of Japan” because of its laid-back beach vibes. Santa Cruz is a town in California where I’ve spent a lot of time. Nestled in a hilly forest next to the ocean, it has chill neighborhoods, surfer beaches, and extremely popular tourist areas. I love Santa Cruz, so I was very interested to explore Kamakura.
As soon as we got off the train I was impressed. This is a lovely little town with greenery everywhere.
(more…)Green in the Desert: Las Vegas Concours 2025
I don’t care what you want to call yourself. Just be consistent, so others know what to say. I was reminded of that when I signed up for the Las Vegas Concours. Or is it as their website says, Concours at Wynn Las Vegas? Or as their Instagram says, Las Vegas Concours at Wynn? Or as Wikipedia refers to it, Las Vegas Concours d’Elegance? Road & Track even called it the Wynn Concourse for some reason. Whatever it is, the branding of this event fails the rule of consistency. So for this article, I’ll refer to this event by the simplest name that I like the most: Las Vegas Concours.
This is a relatively new event, having kicked off in 2019 at a golf course in Henderson (a suburb of Las Vegas) but then immediately denied a second annual event in 2020 due to the pandemic. In 2021 they held it in Summerlin (another Vegas suburb) at the Triple-A baseball stadium. In 2022 it moved to its current location, the golf course at the Wynn casino/resort/hotel/country club, which is right off Las Vegas Boulevard, aka The Strip.
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