We just completed Day 1 of our CES 2018 road trip. We’re going from our New York office to Las Vegas in style.
Future’s brand new New York City office is the official starting line. We won’t be at the finish line for seven whole days, with stops in Washington D. C.; Knoxville, Tennessee; Memphis, Tennessee (it’s a long state), Oklahoma (the middle of the country); a lunch-time pit-stop in Amarillo, Texas; Santa Fe, New Mexico; and Monument Valley, Arizona (which is in almost every Western you’ve ever seen).
The first leg of our adventure to get to CES in Las Vegas involved traveling from a hungover Manhattan, which just celebrated New Year’s Eve 2018, to the nation’s capital, Washington, D. C.
Here’s what we’ve experienced so far.
This is the car we’ve driving to CES 2018. It’s the latest Hyundai Genesis G80 Sport courtesy of Hyundai, and it’s our amazing ride for the next seven days.
It’s $57,750 (about £42,480, AU$73,946) and it drives like a dream. At first Nick and I were worried because it’s the first time either of us drove in Manhattan (I just moved here, after all), and we’ve be doing it in a bigger car than we’re used to. Well, the larger interior of the G80 Sport doesn’t really translate to a «boat,» like everyone has told us in the weeks prior to today. It’s also filled with enough sensors and safety features to keep us free from dinging anyone in Manhattan.
Crisis adverted, right? Well…
…. It did snow in the days leading up to our Manhattan escape. Proof:
We still managed to make it out of a frigid Manhattan in one piece in a car that’s not our own. Another crisis adverted. Our first big hurdles of attending CES 2018 via a cross-country road trip were over and done with.
Five hours later, we ended up in an equally frozen Washington, D. C. And, with a little sleep, we tested out some smartphone cameras (for a gallery coming soon) to take photos of the famous monuments.
Just how frozen was Day 1 of our road trip to CES 2018? Well, we were able to walk across the iconic Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool.
We got to take photos – with various smartphones – of Mr. Lincoln. We didn’t get the same opportunity to take pictures with President Trump. Twitter said he was busy.
The first 24 hours on the road to CES ended with us headed further south, toward Knoxville, Tennessee. Time to break out the Chicken and Waffles. Las Vegas is in our sights.
