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Funding Successful

This project successfully raised its funding goal on August 27, 2010.

Pledge $5 or more

19 Backers

Pledge just $5 and we'll send you two PDFs of trips from our Post-Car Adventuring the San Francisco Bay Area guidebook.

Pledge $10 or more

17 Backers

Pledge $10 and we'll send you a collectible Amtrak postcard and list your name on our 'Backers Page' at www.postcarpress.org. You'll also receive each of the above rewards.

Pledge $16 or more

1 Backer

Pledge $16 and you'll receive a Post-Car Press spoke card featuring our 'Car Camping is Over' design.

Pledge $20 or more

24 Backers

Pledge $20 and we'll send you your choice of an electronic copy of the revised, second edition of Post-Car Adventuring the San Francisco Bay Area (2010), PCA Seattle, PCA Portland, PCA Los Angeles, or PCA Green River (forthcoming). Plus all of the above.

Pledge $25 or more

40 Backers

Pledge $25 and you're going on a trip! Tell us where you want to go, anywhere in the U.S., and the Post-Car Travel agency will put together a trip with all the details (schedules, side trips, etc.) to meet your schedule, budget, and preferred modes of post-car travel. Maybe you're just curious how to get to a park in your city via transit, or maybe you want to ride the train cross country to visit a National Park. It's up to you. We'll do all the planning and research and send you a well-designed itinerary to get you started post-car adventuring! Plus you get all of the above.

Pledge $50 or more

22 Backers

Pledge $50 and receive a hardcopy of the new, revised edition of Post-Car Adventuring the San Francisco Bay Area (2010) and a limited edition, Post-Car Press 'Car Camping is Over! (If You Want It)' water bottle + all of the above, including the personalized trip itinerary for anywhere in the US!

Pledge $100 or more

5 Backers

Pledge $100 and receive a screen printed Post-Car Press poster, water bottle, and all of the above.

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3 Backers

Pledge $150 and we'll send you a beautifully drawn, vintage Amtrak poster, Post-Car Press poster, water bottle, plus everything else.

Pledge $350 or more

2 Backers

Pledge $350 or more and we'll help you plan a trip to anywhere in California on one of Amtrak California's three excellent, on-time trains (Pacific Surfliner, Capitol Corridor, and San Joaquin) and extensive motorcoach connections. We'll even pay for one leg of your trip! Not sure where you'd like to go? We've got some great suggestions--from hot springs in the wilderness, to southern California beaches, to the redwoods of Humboldt County. (Don't forget to take your p-c press waterbottle and Post-Car adventuring the San Francisco Bay Area guidebook.)

Pledge $650 or more

1 Backer

Pledge $650 or more and we'll not only help you plan and pay for a great trip in California, but we'll plan a trip and pay for your ticket (one way) between any two stations on the California Zephyr train that connects San Francisco, CA to Chicago, IL by way of the Sierras, Nevada and Utah deserts, the Rockies, and the Great Plains. We'd love to talk to you--you really get what we are trying to do--let's do dinner. Our treat.

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Connected as Justin Eichenlaub (385 friends)

We run Post-Car Press to publish the Post-Car Adventuring Guidebooks series. We travel regularly with the Bay Area-based Ragamuffins bicycle(+transit) gang, a dedicated crew of post-car adventurers.

We are passionate about improving the quality of our streets for pedestrians, cyclists, and transit riders by working at the intersection of publishing, design, and advocacy. We hope that you'll join us in these efforts.

Photo by Dustin Jensen.

  1. postcarpress.org
  2. postcarindustries.com
  3. rovingindustries.tumblr.com