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Experience America this summer with Andrew Burmon
Introducing Traveling the American Road
June 25th, 2011
I've been staying in a lot of hotels. Some nice ones, some not so nice, most owned or at least operated by a corporate parent. There's a anonymous familiarity about them all, which is comforting or unsettling, depending on my mood. I've also crashed with some friends ...
June 24th, 2011
Summer in New England is so pleasant and so cliche, I didn't arrive in Rhode Island expecting to find much more than craft breweries, lobster rolls and some wicked good times. And they certainly have those! But no sooner had I parked the car than I stumbled across a ...
June 22nd, 2011
In a town where 500 square foot apartments can fetch $4,000 a month, the installation of a small slice of lawn calls for a mayoral press conference. And Mayor Bloomberg was there on June 8 for the opening of the second phase of the High Line, New York's most innovative ...
June 21st, 2011
We've done Detroit, Cleveland and Boston. Now Paul Brady is headed to the City of Brotherly Love. Join us at Independence Al Fresco, the outdoor garden at Philadelphia's Independence Visitor Center, this Thursday, June 23rd, as Mr. Brady recounts tales of epic ...
June 20th, 2011
I wasn't going to be in Boston on Saturday morning. But with the city planning to celebrate its sports heroes, who won the Stanley Cup after a drought of nearly 40 years, I tore up my road trip schedule and made a beeline for Beantown. Riding on Boston's famous Duck ...
June 19th, 2011
While the state park is fun and the wineries in the area are getting better every year, Watkins Glen is famous because of its speedway, a storied road track that's hosted everything from NASCAR to Formula One to, this summer, a three-day Phish-stravaganza. When I rolled ...
June 17th, 2011
The funny thing about road trips is that you end up spending a lot of time behind the wheel of your car. There's always another city to get to, asphalt to be consumed, another waypoint to hit. So by the time I pulled into Watkins Glen, a small town in New York's Finger ...
June 16th, 2011
A group of pioneering Cleveland cooks is taking advantage of a new government policy initiative to spur the growth of their small businesses. As of this summer, food trucks will be allowed into downtown Cleveland, thanks to a temporary ordinance that lets them serve ...
June 14th, 2011
In a part of the public imagination, Detroit is an urban frontier, ripe for the conquering and reimagining, poised for a renaissance, driven by Chrysler ads and noble hipsters volunteering on urban farms. It's also true that Detroit is an abandoned city, dark and ...
June 14th, 2011
One of my colleagues once nicknamed his father's 2000 Miata "The Penis Extension". In hindsight, "Extension" could have been changed to "Reduction," but I give him credit for trying. And the guy had a point, anyone with an emotional engagement with their vehicle ...
June 13th, 2011
Momentum is building around the Traveling the American Road series, and as our blogger Paul Brady and his trusty videographer Steve work their way around the country the dispatches are filtering in. Did you see the stop they made at the WBEZ studios in Chicago to ...
June 11th, 2011
Outside downtown Detroit, in Dearborn, there's a museum filled with airplanes and cars and farm implements and the most outlandish house ever conceived. Somehow, the bric a brac works, brought together as The Henry Ford Museum, an institution less focused on a ...
June 8th, 2011
At the outset of my trip, I needed some guidance. A sort of Rust Belt Virgil, willing and able to orient me to the exciting and dynamic and tragic state of the Great Lakes region. With my route passing through Chicago, Detroit and Cleveland, there seemed no one better ...
June 8th, 2011
Chef Steven Grostick has never worked in a kitchen outside of Michigan. It's a remarkable accomplishment in an industry focused on apprenticeships in France, Italy, Japan, on jumping from stove to stove in New York City, on doing a turn at a resort in Arizona. Staying ...
June 7th, 2011
I had never milked a goat before the time I wrapped my fingers around Apple's teat and squeezed, inside a barn on a one-acre plot next to a public school in Woodbridge, Detroit. Two volunteers at the farm, Doug Reith and Leeann Drees, offered to bring me along for ...
June 7th, 2011
Before I left Chicago for points east, I had a chance to tour Ford's Chicago Assembly Plant, a complex that finishes about 1160 vehicles a day. A great majority of those are Ford Explorers, pieced together by line workers wearing safety glasses and headphones, working ...
June 6th, 2011
Last week, I kicked off a summer-long road trip around the country, a project we're calling Traveling the American Road. After picking up my ride in Chicago, I set out to see the city, and this video intro will fill you in on the project, a quest to find out how ...
June 5th, 2011
Everyone told me that I had to eat at Zingerman's Deli in Ann Arbor, so I drove past Michigan Stadium and turned off Main Street, parked on Detroit Street and discovered that it's not just a sub shop but an overflowing gourmet market that happens to serve tasty, ...
June 3rd, 2011
If the story of this road trip is the reinvention of America, Chicago makes for a fitting starting point. Burned to the ground in the 19th century, its skyline now bristles with architectural gems, including some of the tallest buildings in the country. And while the ...
June 3rd, 2011
It was a beer-and-snack-fueled kickoff for Traveling the American Road on Tuesday night at Chicago's Hubbard Inn. The launch party took over the top floor of the newish restaurant and bar, and the microbrews and conversation were flowing, with local bloggerati and ...
What was once one of the world's most famous ships is now rusting away in ...
Pmocek, Flickr Some "suspected or known terrorists" on the TSA's No Fly ...
rayand/Flickr Being connected when traveling is getting easier all the ...
Transportation Security Administration Each week, the Transportation ...
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