WVO Fuel Travel:  Road-tripping around North America using waste vegetable oil, helping the environment, and sightseeing.   Thanks for visiting our website.  Nick Pisca and Glenn Wienke are based in California and Wisconsin, and we use waste vegetable oil (WVO) from fryers as biofuel to travel across the continent.     We’ve accomplished a lot! We’ve...

WVO Travel & Awareness is run by Nick Pisca & Glenn Wienke.  Based in California & Wisconsin, we use old French Fry oil in our cars to travel across the continent. .  Read More…  

Now that the trans leak was resolved, I figured it would be cool to venture out into the unknown parts of central Wyoming.  I hadn’t been through here before, and I thought there would be some interesting things to see.  I didn’t realize just how remote this state is.  It’s about the same density is southern Alaska.  There were no towns or cities...

Still waiting for my van to get fixed at Northwest Auto, we decided to go for a walk to downtown Gillette.  Being such a small town, it doesn’t take that much to walk over to the main CBD. Eventually, we got to the two main museums in town.  The second was the Frontier Relics and Auto Museum.  Quite a nice little place, containing a bunch of old memorabilia...

Well, we got to our hotel in Rapids City, spent the night, and left in the morning for different locations.  I was concerned about my transmission fluid, so I didn’t want to go to Mount Rushmore like the other family wanted to do.  They also wanted to go up to Devil’s Tower, but since I’ve been to both of those places about 6 times now, I just...

The Corn Palace is a tourist trap in the middle of nowhere South Dakota.   It’s one of those things that I’ve visited on several roadtrips (1993, 2003, 2000’s, 2016, etc) because it’s there.  I recall being a 12 year old kid, on the tour of the facility, calling out the docent on how the structure isn’t made of corn.  But the truth is,...

BACK TO THE CONVOY, ACROSS THE USA!!! We met up with our travel companions this morning at the good ol’ Souix Falls.  We visited here on a previous WVO roadtrip with them in the veggie van, but this time we have two vans and we are convoying it back to Southern California. It was nice to see our friends after separating for a full month.  They were visiting...

I know Glenn and I are smartasses and make a mockery of everything we touch, but here’s one of the moments where I’m gunna get serious.  My mom found this suggestion of a man who made a bunch of metal sculptures on his farm, and said we should check it out.  Little did I know just how impressive this site is. The artist’s name is Arnie Lillo and...

First stop on the way back to Los Angeles, turned out to be an impromptu stop at Minnesota’s Largest Candy Store. I don’t have any pictures of the Wonka wonderland, but it was a lot of candy.  I forgot to mention, while on the first 60 miles of road, we got a huge explosive rear flat tire, that F’ed up my rear quarter and turned my metal mudflap...

Glenn and I have this knack for being in the right place at the right time on these trips, no matter how bad things are going.  This roadtrip was odd, because as we were limping the van back to Mosinee, we happened to drive passed the Balloon Festival currently in progress.  Great timing. Not only did we have the good fortune to get close to the balloons, we did it...