Afternoon stop in Aurora, IL. Aurora is another of those faded manufacturing centers one sees in the midwest. Perhaps it was the rainy weather but the city had a gloomy feel to it. Like […]
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It’s a bird, it’s a plane…
It’s Superman! After Plainfield I left the Lincoln Highway for a side trip to Plano (a/k/a Smallville) where I was ticketed to visit Mies van der Rohe’s seminal Farnsworth House. (I will do a gallery […]
Plainfield
On the Lincoln Highway and Route 66 in Plainfield, IL, Sept. 2016. Leaving Joliet on the Plainfield Road in the direction of my next stop, Plainfield, I passed a monument commemorating the construction of the Lincoln […]
Joliet bound
On the Lincoln Highway and Route 66 in Joliet, IL, Sept. 2016. This is one of two Lincoln Highway cities in Illinois where the Lincoln and Route 66 meet up (the other being Plainfield). […]
Chicago Heights
On the Lincoln Highway in Illinois, September 2016. My first stops were in South Chicago Heights and Chicago Heights. Both seemed to be looking a little worse for wear. In Chicago Heights, at the […]
The Illinois Lincoln Highway murals
One of the photographic themes on my Lincoln Highway explorations has been the tremendous variety (and the quality) of murals and other street art in Lincoln Highway communities. Illinois seems to set the gold standard […]
Looking for Lincoln in Illinois
In Illinois, the Land of Lincoln. All along the Lincoln Highway one sees statues (and a lot else) commemorating America’s 16th President. At the eastern end of the Lincoln, I had my first encounter with a […]
Illinois, Sept. 2016
Driving the Lincoln Highway in Illinois. Continuing my late summer mini-Lincoln Highway trip I crossed over to Illinois from Dyer IN (first picture) and immediately got off busier US 30 and took the Sauk Trail road […]
Along the Deep River in Hobart, Indiana
Heading west on the Lincoln Highway in Indiana. Between Valparaiso and Schererville the Old Lincoln Highway veers off from US 30 and crosses the Deep River in Hobart where I did a stop at the […]
Going to the courthouse…
On the Lincoln Highway in Indiana. As it was along the Lincoln Highway in Ohio and Illinois, every reasonably sized city I drove through along the Lincoln in Indiana seemed to have some imposing civic buildings […]
Back to the Indiana heartland, Sept. 2016
Back on the Lincoln Highway in Indiana. In September 2016 I found myself back in the heartland for a week of further exploration in Indiana and in Illinois (combined with several days on a […]
Liberty State Park in Jersey City
The Lincoln Highway in New Jersey: the Central Railroad of New Jersey Terminal building at Liberty State Park in Jersey City. The CRR Terminal building recently reopened to visitors after several years repairing the Superstorm […]
One more from the homeward journey: Three Mile Island
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 […]
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 […]