Hi all...the wife is back in the Midwest visiting family, so that means a road trip with no "this is boring"..."this is ugly" constant whining! Being able to...
... If you can describe the path of send photos, perhaps I can check them out too. I've probably even driven on the roads you're talking about. I think I have...
What a "maroon"! Mike ... From: JWM<mailto:drivetheost@...> To: swautotrails@yahoogroups.com<mailto:swautotrails@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Thursday, May 11,...
Jaguar Joe informed me today that the obscure Magnolia Trail is again open for travel (see below). JWM By the way The Magnolia Route has now been reopened from...
Mr. Stephens, I live in San Diego County, but I read your article about the Indian River County section of the Dixie Highway on the internet. I can't believe...
Excellent note Steve. May I emulate it for letters to Highway 80 communities? I've sporadically sent letters to the Chamber sof Commerce of many of my...
Sure, you might want to mention the Dixie Overland Highway as well, since US 80 follows it the most closely. That federal transportation web site has lots of...
I was looking at the Zero Milestone article on the Federal Highway Administration web site. http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/infrastructure/zero.htm The article relates...
"THE NATION'S YARD SALE" MAY 19-21, 2006 The seventh annual Great U.S. 50 Yard Sale will be held Friday-Sunday, May 19-21, 2006. The yard sale started in...
(Las Vegas Review-Journal (KRT) Via Thomson Dialog NewsEdge) May 11-- Biloxi, Miss., Mayor Holloway told the opening session of the Global Gaming Exposition...
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Indeed, the Bankhead convoy gets little notice in comparison with the Transcontinental Motor Train along the Lincoln Highway. Perhaps it's the Eisenhower...
This is how the aforementioned Minuteman tour came to its conclusion: Minutemen caravan ends near Capital Dueling protests reflect immigration divide Suzanne...
Compare the Minutemen arrival with an account from the Los Angeles Times of the end of the Bankhead tour: "the enlisted men, glad to leave their motor vehicles...
And while on the subject of the Bankhead Highway, what about this tiny town of Bankhead Springs on old 80, San Diego County? Several accounts say the springs...
Yes, this place would make a perfect US 80 shop and visitor center. If I were near retirement I might consider it. ;) Once source I saw said that the springs...
Piece on Houston's confusing network of primar arterials, many once part of the OST. JWM May 18, 2006, 1:06AM It's easy to get lost in our big, fat, hot,...
Conversely, I was reading old San Diego articles where city planners criticized San Diego for laying out a grid system. San Diego is built on a series of...
Widely circulated piece by AP writer Michael Kunzelman. Kunzelman uses U.S. 90 -- actually calling it the OST -- to thread together a story of Katrina's...
Jaguar Joe forwarded this piece on the re-opening of the Maganolia Route. The web post contains pictures, including Joe pouring Gulf water into Lake Michigan...
2006 Lincoln Highway meeting in Cedar Rapids The Lincoln Highway Association will hold its annual national conference and meeting in Cedar Rapids, Iowa June...
Roadshow to celebrate Old Spanish Trail Web Posted: 05/24/2006 12:00 AM CDT San Antonio Express-News The San Antonio Conservation Society will sponsor a...
The 1920s OST Board of Directors added Tourist Loops to the 3000 OST Main Highway. One thru' the Evangeline Country of Longfellow's poem in Louisiana, and one...
U.S. Road Food Is Special: Jell-O and Pretzel Salad, Anyone? May 18 (Bloomberg) -- Enthusiasm is infectious, and people who blend it with lively and original...
First of the Bowlin Chain Listed in National Register Bowlin's Old Crater Trading Post, Bluewater, New Mexico By John and Kris Murphey Santa Fe, N.M., June 11...
Another article using U.S. 90 to document the lasting impact of Katrina. Part of a multi-article series... go to this web site to view a narrated slideshow: ...
