32,478 Miles • Garden of the Gods
Driving through southern Indiana and into southern Illinois, I found: Street name: Hardscrabble Road Town name: Santa Claus, Indiana –…
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32,226 Miles • On Lincoln and Fear of a Good Future
Just outside of English, Indiana, I found a roadside spring thanks to findaspring.com and filled up my tanks with water…
31,200 Miles • Niagara Falls
The scenic route towards Niagara Falls involved driving through an area known as the Green Belt—shoulder to shoulder family orchards…
30,839 Miles • Da Vinci in Ontario
A couple hours directly west of Montréal, in the neighboring province of Ontario, lies Ottawa. The main attraction for me…
30,713 Miles • Tribulations In Quebec
I crossed the Canadian border from Maine at Saint-Augustin-de-Woburn after giving a curious customs officer a tour of the van.…
30,025 Miles • Acadia National Park
It is a beautiful new world. A new life. New possibilities and new perspectives. After my recent catharsis, the ensuing…
28,944 Miles • Shaker Simplicity
Heading northwest from Hartford toward New York and the Adirondacks, I found some lovely mountainous roads along a small river…
28,858 Miles • Noah Webster
Two years ago, I visited Noah Webster’s birthplace in Hartford, Connecticut, and even went into the building, but was put…
28,288 Miles • A Short Detour into the French Revolution
In the spring of 1776, an embittered France, angry and smarting from losing its North American colonies to Britain in…
28,069 Miles • My Heart is Content
In the Allegheny Forest of western Pennsylvania is a spot called Hearts Content National Recreation Area. The name is fitting…