{"id":5829,"date":"2022-08-14T15:04:56","date_gmt":"2022-08-14T21:04:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lundeby.com\/blog\/?page_id=5829"},"modified":"2026-02-20T13:24:52","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T19:24:52","slug":"bmw-usa-grand-tour-2022","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/lundeby.com\/blog\/photo-albums\/bmw-usa-grand-tour-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"BMW USA Grand Tour 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"192\" src=\"https:\/\/lundeby.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/52152201546_d20ac8f452_k-300x192.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5856\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lundeby.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/52152201546_d20ac8f452_k-300x192.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lundeby.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/52152201546_d20ac8f452_k-768x492.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lundeby.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/52152201546_d20ac8f452_k-1024x656.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/lundeby.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/52152201546_d20ac8f452_k.jpg 1630w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The BMW USA Grand Tour 2022 was the brainchild of Austin Lundeby who thought it would be a fitting gift for his dad&#8217;s 70th birthday (Surprise!) to invite him to the two day <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/727179136\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BMW High Performance Driving School<\/a> in Thermal, CA (southern CA near Palm Springs). And better yet, this plan involved a road trip in Austin&#8217;s 2016 BMW 550i driving three days from Denver to Thermal and then three more days returning back to Denver. We hit four national parks, a meteor crater and a wildfire (pix below).\n\nOn top of that plan Austin added a drone for aerial footage, GoPro for in-car track sessions, and a dashcam recording K4 video of the <em>full road trip<\/em>! Now no one wants to watch 48 hours (behind the wheel), 2,400 miles of driving, so here is a five minute sample of just the first days drive (still pano captures from the dashcam video) under 5 min.\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/734414737?h=9915d2a2f7\" width=\"540\" height=\"300\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/726538657?h=cf37d61148\" width=\"540\" height=\"300 frameborder=\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/727179136?h=d61d4b7209\" width=\"540\" height=\"300 frameborder=\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Austin has created a much more complete journal of the trip and driving school videos (as a Father\u2019s Day gift) <a href=\"https:\/\/usgt2022.pages.dev\/\">HERE!<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>MORE VIDEOS:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/726538657\/cf37d61148\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Colorado River canyon drive Hiway 128 [ 2 min.]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/735255252\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dashcam Arches National Park [ 3.5 min.]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=oAErT9rrANA&amp;t=4s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Barringer Meteor Crater drone footage [ 4 min.]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/727593446\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Off-road at Mexican Hat drone footage [ 4.5 min.]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/724043809\/abaec4e40a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Instructor hot lap (with spinout!) [ 1.5 min.]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/724100853\/ec94178bb0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Instructor hot lap (Austin &amp; Mike ride along) two camera edit [2 min.]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UC5cOp923huILlhVA8d0osOA\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">More of BMW School videos by Austin<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Click on any thumbnail below to zoom in, then use arrow keys or swipe to advance slideshow.<\/strong><\/span> <\/p>\n\n\n\n\t\t\t\t\t<style>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t.LoadingImg img {\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\tmax-width: 95px;\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\tmax-height: 95px;\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\tbox-shadow:  none;\r\n\t\t\t\t\t}\r\n\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\/* style for image thumbnail fixed*\/\r\n\t\t\t\t\t#fagp_5837 .img-thumbnail {\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\tpadding: 4px;\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t}\r\n\r\n\t\t\t\t\t@media only screen and (min-device-width: 665px) and (max-device-width: 667px) {\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t#fagp_5837 .img-thumbnail {\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t    padding: 4px;\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t    \t\t\t\t\t\t}\r\n\t\t\t\t\t}\r\n\r\n\t\t\t\t\t#fagp_5837 .b-link-fade .b-wrapper,#fagp_5837 .b-link-fade .b-top-line{\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\tbackground: rgba(30, 140, 190, 0.5);\r\n\t\t\t\t\t}\r\n\t\t\t\t\t#fagp_5837 .b-link-flow .b-wrapper,#fagp_5837 .b-link-flow .b-top-line{\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\tbackground: rgba(30, 140, 190, 0.5);\r\n\t\t\t\t\t}\r\n\t\t\t\t\t#fagp_5837 .b-link-stroke .b-top-line{\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\tbackground: rgba(30, 140, 190, 0.5);\r\n\t\t\t\t\t}\r\n\t\t\t\t\t#fagp_5837 .b-link-stroke .b-bottom-line{\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\tbackground: rgba(30, 140, 190, 0.5);\r\n\t\t\t\t\t}\r\n\r\n\t\t\t\t\t#fagp_5837 .b-link-box .b-top-line{\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\tborder: 16px solid rgba(30, 140, 190, 0.5);\r\n\t\t\t\t\t}\r\n\t\t\t\t\t#fagp_5837 .b-link-box .b-bottom-line{\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\tbackground: rgba(30, 140, 190, 0.5);\r\n\t\t\t\t\t}\r\n\t\t\t\t\t#fagp_5837 .b-link-stripe .b-line{\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\tbackground: rgba(30, 140, 190, 0.5);\r\n\t\t\t\t\t}\r\n\t\t\t\t\t#fagp_5837 .b-link-apart-horisontal .b-top-line,#fagp_5837 .b-link-apart-horisontal .b-top-line-up{\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\tbackground: rgba(30, 140, 190, 0.5);\r\n\t\t\t\t\t}\r\n\t\t\t\t\t#fagp_5837 .b-link-apart-horisontal .b-bottom-line,#fagp_5837 .b-link-apart-horisontal .b-bottom-line-up{\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\tbackground: rgba(30, 140, 190, 0.5);\r\n\t\t\t\t\t}\r\n\t\t\t\t\t#fagp_5837 .b-link-apart-vertical .b-top-line,#fagp_5837 .b-link-apart-vertical .b-top-line-up{\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\tbackground: rgba(30, 140, 190, 0.5);\r\n\t\t\t\t\t}\r\n\t\t\t\t\t#fagp_5837 .b-link-apart-vertical .b-bottom-line,#fagp_5837 .b-link-apart-vertical .b-bottom-line-up{\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\tbackground: rgba(30, 140, 190, 0.5);\r\n\t\t\t\t\t}\r\n\t\t\t\t\t#fagp_5837 .b-link-diagonal .b-line{\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\tbackground: rgba(30, 140, 190, 0.5);\r\n\t\t\t\t\t}\r\n\r\n\t\t\t\t\t#fagp_5837 .hidepics {\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\tdisplay: none !important;\r\n\t\t\t\t\t}\r\n\r\n\t\t\t\t\t@media (min-width: 992px){\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t#fagp_5837 .col-md-6 {\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\twidth: 49.97% !important;\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t}\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t#fagp_5837 .col-md-4 {\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\twidth: 33.30% !important;\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t}\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t#fagp_5837 .col-md-3 {\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\twidth: 24.90% !important;\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t}\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t#fagp_5837 .col-md-2 {\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\twidth: 16.60% !important;\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t}\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t#fagp_5837 .col-md-5 {\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\twidth: 20% !important;\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t}\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t#fagp_5837 .col-md-8 {\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\twidth: 12% !important;\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t}\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t#fagp_5837 .col-md-10 {\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\twidth: 10% !important;\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t}\r\n\t\t\t\t\t}\r\n\r\n\t\t\t\t\t#lightbox .lb-outerContainer{\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\twidth: 100%;\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\theight: 100%;\r\n\t\t\t\t\t}\r\n\t\t\t\t\t.page-id-5829 #elementor-lightbox { display: none !important; 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