Back in Philadelphia, December 2016. I just got back from a weekend in Philadelphia (arrived Friday afternoon and got back Sunday night). This is a city that is well down the comeback trail and […]
Category Archives: Lincoln Highway
On the Delaware and Raritan Canal
New Jersey, on a drive along the Delaware and Raritan Canal. Yesterday for about the fourth or fifth time in the last few months I got in my TT, headed across the Verrazano Bridge from […]
Trenton Makes the World Takes
Back to Trenton, October 2016. The first two pictures of the Lower Trenton Bridge (also called the Trenton Makes Bridge) were taken on the spring 2016 Lincoln Highway trip. It is also known as […]
Princeton Battlefield
Princeton, October 2016. The first five photos were taken just after sunrise on a cold late fall morning at Princeton Battlefield State Park. It’s hard to see in the photos but there was a frost on the […]
Gargoyles!
Princeton University, June and October, 2016. In the historic part of the Princeton campus gargoyles and grotesques can be found on many of the buildings. They are a hoot. There are many more […]
Princeton University
Princeton University, June 2016 and back again in October 2016. Princeton is a handsome campus and what one imagines an Ivy League campus to look like. IMHO Princeton is the coolest Ivy, hands down. Gorgeous. […]
New Brunswick
New Brunswick, NJ. In late May 2016 on the big Lincoln Highway drive and again in October 2016 on a weekend trip drive from New York (with more time for the stop) I had […]
College tour
The Lincoln Highway exits Philadelphia along the Main Line. During my Philadelphia area explorations on the spring trip and back again in October 2016 I also stopped off at Bryn Mar, Haverford and Villanova all […]
Sail away
The SS United States, October 2016. Now docked at Pier 82 on the Delaware River in Philadelphia. She still holds the “Blue Riband” as the fastest passenger liner crossing the Atlantic Ocean in regular service […]
Rocky!
On location in Philly. The first two shots below feature my two boys channeling Rocky Balboa at the museum steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. The next few shots are from the Italian […]
South Philly
On a Philly weekend visit, October 2016. Philadelphia’s 9th Street Italian Market, said to be the oldest and largest working outdoor market in the United States. I went on a Sunday morning which meant some […]
Crossing the Mississippi to Iowa, Sept. 2016
Clinton, IA, on the Lincoln Highway, Sept. 2016. It was very pretty along the river (especially in the morning mist). There’s a riverboat now being used as a performance venue. Gorgeous historic courthouse (1897). […]
Last stops in Illinois
Morrison and Fulton. These are the last stops on the Lincoln before crossing over to Iowa. Both made a fine impression (and especially Fulton). The gas station in Fulton is an absolute classic. Although it […]
Dixon to Sterling and Rock Falls
First stop, just outside Prairieville on the Palmyra Road out of Dixon (original 1913 routing of the Lincoln Highway) for a shoot at the classic Midway Drive-In (1949), said to be the oldest standing drive-in […]
Detour to Grand Detour (and Oregon)
Just off the Lincoln Highway (up from Dixon on Illinois Route 2) is Grand Detour and a bit north of that, Oregon. Grand Detour is just a tiny village (and a lovely one indeed). Why […]
Reagan country
Dixon, IL, on the Rock River. President Reagan was born in Tampico, IL. The family later moved to Dixon where he lived from the age of 9 to 22. Reagan once wrote as follows: […]
Barbed Wire Capital of the World
DeKalb, IL – the Barb City. After St Charles one heads due west through Main Street America on the route of the Lincoln Highway all the way to the Iowa state line at the […]
St. Charles
Third and final stop on the Fox River, St Charles, IL, and the end of a long day of driving. St. Charles is also a Chicago suburb. It’s a handsome city just off the Lincoln Highway and […]
Road to Perdition
Batavia and Geneva, IL. After scruffy Aurora these next two stops on the Lincoln Highway heading north on Illinois 31 were a distinct pleasure. First, the pretty little city of Batavia (also on […]
Aurora
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 […]
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 […]