Jun 21st, 2011 at 6:00PM:
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 country breakfasts, Stanley Cup confetti and many, many lobster rolls. As an added bonus to the snacks and beer we'll inevitably ...Click on a label to read posts from that part of the world.
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Join Traveling the American Road blogger Paul Brady for a Philly happy hour!
Jun 21st, 2011 at 6:00PM:
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 country breakfasts, Stanley Cup confetti and many, many lobster rolls. As an added bonus to the snacks and beer we'll inevitably ...Boston Celebrates Its Bruins with a Massive Parade
Jun 20th, 2011 at 11:00AM:
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 Boats, the team paraded through the streets, holding the cup aloft as hundreds of thousands cheered. Goodwill was everywhere, ...On the Track at Watkins Glen International
Jun 19th, 2011 at 11:30AM:
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 through town, there wasn't much happening in the way of races.
So I took my car on the track. ...The Secret Lost World of New York's Finger Lakes
Jun 17th, 2011 at 10:30AM:
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 Lakes region, I was ready to get out and stretch my legs.
Fortunately, the village is home to one of the coolest state ...Cleveland's food trucks driving dining innovation
Jun 16th, 2011 at 2:00PM:
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 curbside in a part of the city previously closed to them.
Credit for Cleveland's rapidly growing truck scene is due to Chris ...Driving Through Detroit
Jun 14th, 2011 at 5:00PM:
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 desolate, the kind of place where you can drive down Mack Avenue late one night and only see one pedestrian, a woman scratching her ...Name My (Sweet) Ride for a Chance to Win a HP Veer phone
Jun 14th, 2011 at 3:30PM:
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 needs to name it -- it's a way of connecting and making the journey personal, or, if you're lucky a way to win a phone (details ...Inside Dearborn's Henry Ford Museum
Jun 11th, 2011 at 1:00PM:
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 particular moment or a particular discipline that the very idea of American innovation, financed by the inventor's healthy ...Inside the WBEZ Studios in Chicago to Learn about the Rust Belt
Jun 8th, 2011 at 5:30PM:
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 for the job than Micki Maynard, a journalist now spearheading a public radio project called Changing Gears.
More than just a ...The Detroit Dining Scene: An Interview with Chef Steven Grostick
Jun 8th, 2011 at 9:00AM:
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 in-state has let him amass a network of purveyors, and he's calling in favors from as many as he can at his year-old restaurant ...Detroit's Urban Farms: Budget Battles and Milking Goats
Jun 7th, 2011 at 2:00PM:
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 their turn at tending the animals at the Catherine Ferguson Academy, a school that's also home to one of the city's best known ...Making Cars in the Great Lakes: Inside Ford's Chicago Assembly Plant
Jun 7th, 2011 at 10:00AM:
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 pneumatic tools in a hypnotizing ballet of endless repetition. Whir, whir, whir.
Walking the floor, following pedestrian ...Traveling the American Road: A Video Introduction from Chicago
Jun 6th, 2011 at 10:00AM:
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 people are confronting change in the wake of the Great Recession and determine the state of the American road trip in an era of ...Zingerman's Deli: Is a $15 Sandwich Worth the Price?
Jun 5th, 2011 at 10:00AM:
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, Dagwood-sized sandwiches.
After sampling some brownies, I put in an order for a Bill's 2 over Prime, a ...Hitting the Road in Chicago, a City of Reinvention
Jun 3rd, 2011 at 3:30PM:
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 economy here has diversified over the years, heavy industry and manufacturing still exist, whether its on the industrial ...Traveling the American Road Kicks off in Chicago
Jun 3rd, 2011 at 11:00AM:
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 bon vivants passing me tips and offering advice for the next couple of months. (I'm extra eager to check out some recommended ...An introduction to Traveling the American Road
May 31st, 2011 at 4:00PM: It's a tradition seemingly older than the ribbons of pavement drawn across the country, the byways that incubated the road trip and inspired everything from Travels with Charley to, well, Road Trip.
Can the great American journey survive the era of $4-a-gallon gas-and an economy that's still not fully recovered? I think so.
This summer, I'm taking to the country's interstates, highways and ...
