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 –… Continue reading “32,478 Miles • Garden of the Gods”…
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… Continue reading “32,226 Miles • On Lincoln and Fear of a Good Future”…
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… Continue reading “31,200 Miles • Niagara Falls”…
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… Continue reading “30,839 Miles • Da Vinci in Ontario”…
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.… Continue reading “30,713 Miles • Tribulations In Quebec”…
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… Continue reading “30,025 Miles • Acadia National Park”…
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… Continue reading “28,944 Miles • Shaker Simplicity”…
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… Continue reading “28,858 Miles • Noah Webster”…
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… Continue reading “28,288 Miles • A Short Detour into the French Revolution”…
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… Continue reading “28,069 Miles • My Heart is Content”…