Road Trips

  • Route 66

    John Steinbeck called it the “mother road”.  It was also known as America’s Main Street.  A major artery that linked a large part of our nation.  It started at Grant Park in Chicago and more than 2400 miles later, crossing… Continue reading

  • Car Movies – Two Lane Blacktop

    The end of the year is full of holidays and consequently provides time to sit in from of a TV and watch a DVD.  Earlier this year I put together a list of “car movies” and gave Two Lane Blacktop… Continue reading

  • Speed Bumps

    I hate them.  Does anyone really like them?  Do they really do any good? Then there are the “traffic calming humps”.  Tell me, does anyone feel calm after transversing those things? I think the theory is that the humps are… Continue reading

  • What Makes a Road Great

    For some people it is a freshly paved stretch of asphalt that is straight as an arrow and flat as a pancake.  They look forward to the speed they can attain without the bother of slowing down for curves or fighting gravity’s… Continue reading

  • Stealth

    Spirited driving, speeding, scofflaw, or just “Sorry officer, I had no idea”.  How ever you want to describe it there are speed limits and there are drivers that exceed those limits.  Depending upon what road or highway you look at,… Continue reading

  • Factory Five

      I knew it was always just on the other side of the canal, but once I was on the Cape for vacation it was so hard to cross over the bridge until I was leaving for home.  Then I realised… Continue reading

  • A Return

    It took thirteen hours to return home.  It helped to leave at four in the morning.  In the darkness as I cruised along the mid-Cape I left the windows open so that I could inhale the air that carried the… Continue reading

  • The Trek North

    It was six in the morning as I hit the road north and on my way to a very long drive to Cape Cod. Passing through the North Carolina country side traffic was not too bad at that hour and… Continue reading