Apr 19th, 2013 at 4:00PM: There have been a lot of cool Kickstarter Projects in recent months, but this one will warm the heart of anyone who likes a good old-fashioned road trip. The Route 66 Polaroid Project is just what it says on the tin: a plan to drive the length of the famous highway taking Polaroid snapshots all the way.
Eric and Sarah are getting married in June and they're heading down The Mother Road for ...Click on a label to read posts from that part of the world.
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Route 66 Polaroid Project Aims To Capture The Mother Road The Old-Fashioned Way
Apr 19th, 2013 at 4:00PM: There have been a lot of cool Kickstarter Projects in recent months, but this one will warm the heart of anyone who likes a good old-fashioned road trip. The Route 66 Polaroid Project is just what it says on the tin: a plan to drive the length of the famous highway taking Polaroid snapshots all the way.
Eric and Sarah are getting married in June and they're heading down The Mother Road for ...Photo Of The Day: Howard Johnson Neon Signage
Sep 9th, 2012 at 7:00PM:
There's something so mundane yet fascinating about neon road signage. The services advertised are simple: a clean bed, a comforting meal or a quirky roadside attraction. Yet visually, these neon wonders never fail to grab drivers' (or photographers') attention. Today's photo by Flickr user JasonBechtel is case in point. The brilliant pinks, blues and greens combined with the unique typeface ...Meramec Caverns: The Coolest Attraction On Route 66
Jun 20th, 2012 at 11:00AM:
If you want to beat the heat this summer, there's no better way to do that than to explore a cool and beautiful cave.
Missouri is one of the best states to see them. A combination of lots of limestone and plenty of water has honeycombed the state with some 6,000 caves, from tiny little crawl spaces to grand and glorious show caves. One of the most popular is Meramec Caverns in Stanton, ...
Iconic Road Trip: Route 66's Classic American Countryside
May 25th, 2012 at 2:00PM:
Most people have heard of Route 66. It's iconic. It's a classic American highway recognized in pop culture and its expanse covers many U.S. states. The route original passed through Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and California. Although officially removed from the United States Highway System in 1985, many portions of the original road are now National Scenic ...Barbed Wire Museums Take On A Prickly Subject
May 10th, 2012 at 2:00PM:
I've always loved museums on obscure subjects because they teach you how overlooked objects can have a big influence. Barbed wire is one of those objects.
While various inventors started experimenting with barbed wire in the 1850s, the founder of barbed wire is generally considered to be Joseph Glidden, whose 1873 design soon stretched across the American West. Before then, it was nearly ...The Lincoln Highway: Following The Main Street Across America
Apr 27th, 2012 at 9:00AM:
Route 66 is often called "The Mother Road," and a drive along it brings up all sorts of nostalgia for those simpler days when there was no app for that and nobody could call you while you were driving.
It wasn't the first cross-country road, however. The Lincoln Highway, which we should perhaps call "the Grandmother Road," was finished in 1913 as part of an ambitious project when ...Photo of the Day - Route 66 Signage
Oct 30th, 2011 at 6:00PM:
Route 66, the legendary roadway of American lore, may be no more, but ghostly vestiges of its existence still remain. Take the lovely stretch of retro hotel signs in Albuquerque New Mexico - part of the old Route 66 route. Just off the University of New Mexico campus, you'll find a scattered collection of these aging neon beauties, sprouting like weeds among discount furniture stores, ...Photo Gallery: Abandoned Americana
Oct 20th, 2011 at 1:00PM:
The old America is all around us. Americans used to be farmers. They used to go to drive-in movies. They used to think Route 66 was the greatest highway in the world. Some still do.
If you drive out of the city and leave the strip malls and cookie-cutter suburban homes behind, you'll find it soon enough. Head down a county road and you'll pass dilapidated farmhouses and overgrown gardens, the ...Drive across the USA in four minutes
Sep 11th, 2009 at 10:00AM:
Haven't we all dreamed of taking that cross-country road trip? That amazing opportunity to just jump in a car and blast across the United States from coast-to-coast? The trouble is that not many of us have actually had a chance to do it. There's any number of reasons why, ranging from the oft-cited lack of American vacation time to the hassle of logistics planning such a trip. Well my friends, ...
Travel Read: Road Trip USA
Apr 14th, 2009 at 7:00PM:
Avalon Travel writer Jamie Jensen traversed the nation several times, testing various two-lane highways in the process, to bring road trippers the best (really, it's the BEST) road trip guidebook for the U.S. to date. Road Trip USA, released this month, features eleven unique cross-country road trips. I would not only recommend this guidebook, I would insist that you buy it if you're embarking ...Art car in Texas under fire. Is it art or junk?
Aug 17th, 2008 at 10:30AM: The issue of old cars becoming art is not a new one. A few years back, driving along Route 66 in Amarillo, Texas, I looked out for the 10 Cadillacs half-buried, nose first in a row off the highway. I saw them as funky and fun. The piece was titled Cadillac Ranch.
If you've ever driven through this part of Texas, you may understand how anything that breaks up the flat scenery is welcome. At least, ...The Dying Hotels of Route 66
May 22nd, 2007 at 12:12PM: Route 66, that famous icon of an American road, is nearly dead. The federal highway system either by-passed or paved over what was Route 66. And, along with it, gone are the small businesses that sprung up to service all those travelers living a piece of the American dream: the open highway.
An AP post had me reminiscing about a long motorcycle journey down Route 66. In the article, the writer ...Photo of the Day (5/21/07)
May 21st, 2007 at 10:40PM:
This is from somebody who "got their kicks on Route 66."
Thanks to Sailor Ted on Flickr. ...The Rock Cafe - Stroud, Oklahoma
Jun 8th, 2006 at 6:29PM: Alligator burger in Oklahoma? My curiosity peaked when I saw it on the menu and for as long as I've lived in Florida you'd imagined I'd be a pro at sampling the scaly reptile, but the opportunity was never there. OK, well I didn't exactly go looking for the opportunity either, but when I saw gator burger on the Rock Cafe menu I was willing to give it a go. The description under the burger was ...
