In some cultures, the new year begins in the autumn. There is something to be said for that idea. Looking back at posts from Septembers previous, a theme emerges, one…
Roadside Route 66, Oklahoma.
Southwest of Joplin MO on the Mother Road is Miami OK, once a town with ideas of grandeur and promise as well as the pocket book to back those ideas owing…
Marsh arch “rainbow curve” bridge, the original Route 66 bridge over Brush Creek, west of Baxter Springs. A more modern bridge has replaced it, but the Brush Creek Bridge…
Avon Motel, Route 66, Oklahoma.
Everything seems to run a day or so behind the last couple of months, right up to this, a two year anniversary post posted a day late. Two years ago…
Luke 6:48 He is like a man which built an house, and digged deep, and laid the foundation on a rock: and when the flood arose,…
Twenty five miles from the Blue Whale on Route 66 stands the World’s Largest Concrete Totem Pole, yet another oddity from the bygone era of roadside kitsch, a Route 66 landmark and…
In the pantheon of our wild west history, certain cities come to mind, always. Places where characters lived and died, where important battles were fought, where the roots of those…