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SOUTH OF THE BORDER DIVIDED
HAMER, S.C.—For generations, the towering sombreros and kaleidoscope of billboards at South of the Border have blared to motorists barreling down I-95 just shy of the North Carolina line, promising[…]
What To Do After Visiting The Tulip Festival
What To Do After Visiting The Tulip Festival Planning a spring visit to the Wooden Shoe Tulip Festival? The adventure doesn’t have to stop after you’ve taken in 40 jaw-dropping[…]
Make a few new friends this spring
Make a few new friends this spring as farms throughout Mt. Hood Territory open for a new season! Location: Frog Pond Farm, Wilsonville, Oregon
Miami on the Move: Where Road Trips and International Travel Intersect
Brought to you by B&B Hotels Miami is double-speed This city welcomes and sends people from other countries, but it also feels like the start of road excursions to the[…]
WHAT GROWS ON HERE?
LA CANADA FLINTRIDGE, Calif.—Descanso Gardens has long been celebrated for what it grows and where it grows it. Nestled northwest of Altadena in the foot-hills of the San Gabriel Mountains,[…]
1924 TIME CAPSULE OPENED
KANSAS CITY, Mo.—The longer it lay there, the more explosive it became. For one hundred years, a metal box sat buried in concrete and limestone beneath the 217-foot-tall Liberty Memorial[…]
CARROTS REPAIRED IN ANN ARBOR
The six concrete carrots popping out of the ground there range from four to ten feet in height. Their actual address is 1 Carrot Way, and they belong to Food[…]
NATIONAL ROAD MUSEUM OPENS
BOONSBORO, Md.—Visitors to the Boonsboro area find many interesting and historical sites to explore. There’s a trolley museum, a mountaintop tower dedicated to George Washington, an inn owned by famous[…]
PENN YAN DINER PERSISTS
PENN YAN, N.Y.—In a real-life nightmare on Elm Street in Penn Yan, New York, the Finger Lakes community’s eponymous diner lay gutted by fire in May 2024— just a year[…]
ONE MORE WHIRL IN OREGON
THE DALLES, Ore.—“All things, physical and material, have the capacity to be renewed.” So says Kirsten Benko, director of education for the National Neon Sign Museum in The Dalles, Oregon,[…]
MUFFLER MAN LOSES HEAD
ST. ROBERT, Mo.—You’ve heard of the headless horseman of Sleepy Hollow, but what about the headless muffler man of Route66? Last[…]
INSPECTION STATION – Midwest Bedrock
INSPECTION STATION MIDWEST BEDROCK, by Kevin J. Koch Native Midwesterner Kevin Koch freely concedes that the spaces he celebrates in “Midwest Bedrock” rarely stack up by traditional standards to[…]
Chaos to Calm
Discover winter in Starved Rock Country! Watch our video and start your Flock to the Rock journey!
