And if the procession is a bit too slow for you, why not sign up for the The Lord Mayor's 5km Classic Road Race?

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And when you have seen enough of the city's freeways, explore the outlying areas with a list of Classic California road trips.

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For the road, there are classic games such as Road Trip Fun available on Apple's iTunes for spotting license plates, or counting down the alphabet by spotting something by the roadside that matches that letter.

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And in that traditional tobacco road classic, the ACC Tournament?

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FR-S is depicted in a classic car-commercial scene driving on a mountain road.

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Zhejiang's management is trying to jump-start demand for its shares with a classic Wall Street-style publicity campaign - the corporate road show.

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Some prefer more classic Bruce, but this song is especially evocative for a road trip.

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Thus far, Travelreads has highlighted some fantastic travel stories, including Michael Lewis's celebrated Vanity Fair report about Iceland during the financial crisis and Susan Orlean's classic New Yorker article on the backpackers who haunt Bangkok's Khao San Road.

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