Category: American Countryside
Master of Mountain Unicycling
Many of us remember the struggle of learning to ride a bike as a kid. Eventually we mastered it…and perhaps we’re still riding today. Jed…
The Cozy Dog
Route 66 is full of pieces of Americana…and in central Illinois you’ll find a drive in over 70 years old…and customers traveling from other continents…
Cruising in the Land Yacht
If you asked someone in the U.S. to name a famous foreign highway, maybe they’d mention the German Autobahn or the Chunnel underneath the English…
Museum of the Mother Road
It’s the museum of the Mother Road. And you know you’ve got quite a historic route when there is an entire museum devoted to a…
Crossing the Ohio at Cave in Rock
It’s the end of the road in Illinois, and if you want to go further south on Route 1, you’ll be hopping the ferry across…
Cave In Rock
It was a dangerous portion of the Ohio River – not because of the current, but because of who might be waiting inside a cave. …
The Cattlemen’s Steakhouse
You might go to a fancy clothing store to get measured for a suit. But where do you go to measure your horse? It still…
Beer for Breakfast
Why are nurses on the night shift eating breakfast in the Oklahoma City Stockyards? In a moment we’ll take you to a place popular for…
Karlock’s Kars & Pop Culture Museum
Inside a building once used as a produce house way back in 1860, you’ll find a most interesting museum of sorts just a couple of…
The Pandemics of the 1800s
When the Mark Twain boyhood home was working on some new exhibits over a year ago, they thought they were telling a story from the…