Journeys on roads less traveled.

In the heartland:  Crawford County, Ohio, June 2016

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Greetings and welcome!   

These posts and galleries (uploaded from 2016 through 2022) chronicle my journeys on the old highways, the byways and the back roads. Some urban exploring, too.  The unifying theme is to stay on the roads less traveled.  

Let’s do some road tripping in America: the Lincoln Highway and better known Route 66, the Pacific coast in California, the Pacific Northwest, Virginia and the Carolinas in the American South, and the Erie Canal in upstate New York, among other destinations.  We also head outside the US with Cuba as our first international stop. 

The Lincoln Highway – dedicated in 1913 at the dawn of automobile travel in the US (and which is said to be America’s first coast-to-coast road) – stretches from Times Square in midtown Manhattan to Lincoln Park in San Francisco (or vice versa depending on where you start). Route 66 is sometimes called the Mother Road.  That makes the Lincoln the Father Road.  Our first full set of galleries (currently still under construction) will feature the Lincoln Highway from west to east.

Route 66 does not need a lot of introduction. That storied road runs from Chicago to Santa Monica, CA (again, or the reverse, depending on which way you are driving). Route 66 and the Lincoln Highway even meet briefly in Illinois; the sign in the picture to the left can be found in Plainfield, Illinois, where they share the same route for three blocks!  Stay tuned for a second set of galleries featuring Route 66.

The Pacific Northwest is one of the most beautiful regions of the United States with breathtaking scenery, and we will visit Washington and Oregon in that corner of the United States. We will stay on the Pacific Coast and also take a look at Southern California’s gorgeous beaches and experience some California beach culture. In the US South, it’s a very different travel experience:  an area tremendously heavy with history and a beauty quite unlike the West; we’ll be jumping from California beaches to the South Carolina Lowcountry and the Outer Banks of North Carolina.  The Erie Canal Heritage Corridor in upstate New York is tremendously historic.  As for Cuba get ready for something completely different!  

That’s a glimpse.

These old roads and out-of-the-way destinations are a fantastic way of getting to know a different America and a lot of other places, too. It has been a great adventure so far, and I am delighted to share it with you.

The travel blog is currently on a long break. I have several photography projects I am working on, among other things, and I need to free up some time.  I won’t say that I am retiring the blog, but if and when I resume it, I may get off the back roads of America and try for something different, as I did with the Cuba posts in 2020.

In the meantime, I hope you enjoy these posts from 2016-2022. Off we go.