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…
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…
Scenes from Route 66, Kansas.
In the middle of all the hubbub of the last two months and more still coming daily, a day or two taken for myself, a ride, breaking loose were much…
The heat had gotten to us and by the turnoff the sun sweltered and wavered, even dust from the dirt road rose as slowly as possible to meet our sweat and…
The sun shown bright on the treeless Kansas landscape, dust rolled in wafting sequential clouds with the whir of engines passing before each cloud, the crowd and announcer talked excitedly, 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…
“Do you want to go to Mt. Rushmore? I want to take a family roadtrip and I want little miss to see Mt. Rushmore.” “No. Mt. Rushmore is a defaced…
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