Back in Brooklyn. I took the route back through Ohio/Pennsylvania/New Jersey from Michigan. 950 miles with a stopover near Akron OH. It seems that I needed my passport or something called an Enhanced Drivers License […]
Monthly Archives: June 2016
Lincoln Highway: the people
Lincoln Highway road trip wrap-up #5, New York to Indiana, from gorgeous Charlevoix MI near Lake Michigan. If someone asked me what made the most lasting impression on me during this unusual and very different […]
Lincoln Highway: the roadside relics
Lincoln Highway wrap-up #4, from beautiful Charlevoix, in the lake region of northern Michigan. I did a nice stop in Holland MI on my way north. Settled by Dutch Calvinist separatists in the mid 19th […]
Lincoln Highway: the Rust Belt
Lincoln Highway road trip wrap-up #3. Another Lincoln Highway wrap-up from Holland, Michigan. Sewing machines and generators and vacuum cleaners and trumpets and cars. Driving the old Lincoln Highway route in this part of the country […]
Lincoln Highway: the signage
Lincoln Highway road trip wrap-up #2, from Holland, Michigan. Signs! I wound up lingering in South Bend for a good part of the day. For one, there’s another superb car museum – the National Studebaker […]
Lincoln Highway: the murals
Lincoln Highway wrap-up #1, from South Bend, IN. This is the first of a couple of concluding sets. One of the delights on the drive was seeing all of the murals – here is a […]
Who do you think you are? Clark Gable?
Lincoln Highway Road Trip, day 10 – last day on the old highway. (Clark Gable and his ’35 Duesenberg.) A little after 5 pm today after coming into South Bend on the former Lincoln Highway, […]
Deeper into the Ohio heartland
Lincoln Highway Road Trip, day 10. I showed up at a bar and grill in Auburn last night to watch the Dubs but got the day wrong – oh well. I watched the US thrashing […]
Indiana art deco
Lincoln Highway Road Trip, day 9, end-of-day. In Auburn, Indiana, close to the Michigan state line. After a pleasant drive through the rest of the western Ohio portion of the trip (with a couple of great […]
The Shawshank Redemption: Mansfield, Ohio
Heading to Indiana today – the last state on this very entertaining journey. Who knew that there would be so many places to stop? Colonial Princeton! Valley Forge! Gettysburg! The (US) football Hall of Fame! […]
In the heartland
Lincoln Highway Road Trip, end of day 8. In Lima OH (that is Lima as in lima bean and not as in Lima, Peru). I am not far from the Indiana state line and shall […]
East Liverpool, Ohio
Lincoln Highway Road Trip, day 7. Nice game by the Dubs last night. Of course, this is Cavs country around here and I have to be circumspect. As promised, some more shots of this incredible […]
Braddock PA and the Edgar Thompson Steel Works
Lincoln Highway Road Trip, day 6. On my way to West Virginia. First, let’s stay in Pittsburgh – yesterday, on the outskirts of the city, I took a wrong turn and got stuck on this […]
Crossing the Ohio River
Lincoln Highway Road Trip, end of day 6. A trifecta today: woke up in Pennsylvania, drove (very briefly) through a corner of West Virginia and spent the balance of the day in Ohio where I […]
Destination Pittsburgh PA
Lincoln Highway Road Trip, day 5, end-of-day note from Beaver Falls PA, near the Ohio and West Virginia state lines. Another very good day with a little bit of bad mixed in. I got on […]
Western Pennsylvania: in Appalachia
Lincoln Highway Road Trip, day 5. A few more shots of the drive here in western Pennsylvania. It’s not all picture postcard little towns. There are stretches of the road where the towns have seen […]
On the Lincoln Highway in Pennsylvania
Lincoln Highway Road Trip, day 4, end of a fantastic day. I love road trips. I woke up this morning in Gettysburg and got myself out to the battlefields fairly early: the weather report said […]
Gettysburg: silence and respect
Lincoln Highway Road Trip, day 4. After I arrived in Gettysburg yesterday there was still time for a walk in the fading light around the Gettysburg National Cemetery, the final resting place for more than […]
Lancaster County, PA: Amish country
Lincoln Highway Road Trip, day 3, in the evening. A long day of driving. Arrived Gettysburg early evening. Valley Forge park was fantastic. Spent a good part of the day exploring Lancaster County PA (Amish […]
Edison to Trenton, New Jersey
Lincoln Highway Road Trip, day 3. Here are a few random shots (in color again) of the drive so far. Two pics at the Edison Memorial Tower in Menlo Park, NJ (yes that is a […]
Phoenixville, PA
Lincoln Highway Road Trip, end of day 2, with an update and a movie trivia quiz (and switching over to color): two days, three states. I am writing this from near Phoenixville, PA. I crossed […]
Newark, part three
Newark, part three. Finally, here is a grouping of pictures taken near or right along the Lincoln Highway route in a part of town I probably didn’t belong in but I was seeking out the […]
Newark, part two.
Here are some shots of historic Newark Penn Station, built by the defunct Pennsylvania Railroad and a deco beauty (with some pretty scary deco eagles).
Newark, part one
Lincoln Highway Road Trip, day 2. The April Newark pix, as promised, part one. I made it as far as Princeton yesterday with a number of stops on the way. New Jersey can be a […]