In Search Of The Ultimate Seattle-Chicago Road Trip Vehicle

We are in search of the Ultimate Seattle-Chicago Road Trip Vehicle for this July’s Travel Blog Exchange (TBEX) Road Trip.  Personally I’d prefer the Urban Assault Vehicle from the movie Stripes pictured at right.  But barring that beauty, here are our requirements:

• Drivable
• Will make it to Chicago kinda drivable
• Seats 3 adults comfortably
• Room for all kinds of camping gear and a ukulele
• Gets decent gas mileage. North of 20MPG would be nice
• Fun
• Dead Sexy (ok, that’s an option)
• Free

Super ideally it’ll be a vehicle we can take one way and leave in Chicago.  We are already in contact with a couple car rental agencies but if there are other options out there that are both way more fun and dead sexy, we’ll take it!  We can also bring it back to Seattle if you need us to.

What we are looking for is a free loaner for the trip.  We’re hoping someone out there has a vehicle they wouldn’t mind loaning three poor souls for a week of good old American Road Tripping.  We are all grown, responsible, non-smoking, mentally competent, crash adverse adults who will take good care of said vehicle.  For the honor of rolling your vehicle to TBEX and possibly back, we’d be glad to pimp your life, cause, company, cat or anything you wish to pimp on this site, our blogs, and the blogs other travel bloggers supporting us.  In other words, exposure.  PIE.

If you are willing to offer up a Ferrari for the trip, I’m going to have to ask for two, otherwise we’ll have to do Rock-Scissors-Paper to see who stays behind.  Something like a Vanagon would be perfect.

Let us know what you, or your buddy, or your neighbor’s friend’s golf cart repairman might have sitting around.