Travel

The drive from Carhenge (Alliance, Nebraska) to Cheyenne, Wyoming is just under three hours on back roads. But we’d been unable to find a hotel room, since we were arriving during the height of the Cheyenne Frontier Days festival. On our drive west, we’d also made stops at Chimney Rock and Scott’s Bluff National Monuments,… Read More

Like many before us, we packed up our belongings and headed west. The lakes of Wisconsin were now summer memories and adventure stretched in front of us, across the flat Western plains. We had half-planned a driving route on rural backroads, which meant a slow pace and lots to see.  The first planned stop was… Read More

At least one of your summertime dreams looks a lot like Wisconsin, whether you know it yet or not. Growing up in Georgia, I didn’t really have a clear picture of Wisconsin. I had vague imagery of dairy farms, cheese hats, and hyper-enthusiastic sports fans, but not a lot more. So my expectations for the… Read More

After three and a half weeks in the BWI long-term lot, our Lincoln MKX started up again without a hitch. We had racked up a parking bill of $126, but in the bigger picture, it meant we could pick up the road trip exactly where we had left off – just outside of Washington, DC… Read More

I’m seriously attracted to historic hotels.  The first inklings of a road trip can be stirred by a desire to stay in one. I peruse sites like the National Trust’s Historic Hotels, and Relais & Chateaux hoping to find places I haven’t yet stayed.  When it comes to Keswick Hall in Virginia, however, I’ve enjoyed … Read More

“Let’s go for a drive.”  My father said those words almost every weekend. Each time, the statement was met with a flurry of activity, as if it was a wholly unexpected surprise that required emergency planning.  My mother would begin boiling eggs for deviling, laying the halves out carefully on a rooster-shaped dish, filling them,… Read More