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American Road Trip Talk (Podcast): Andre Dager: A Velvet Centennial

Click here to listen… Click here to download…   There is just no better treat on a hot summer day than a scoop of ice cream. Our Friends of the Fastlane column in the Summer Edition celebrated one of America’s oldest ice cream companies, Velvet Ice Cream as they celebrated their Centennial. What adds to the charm of this family owned creamery is that is located in the heart of central Ohio’s countryside in Utica, Ohio 45 minutes north of Columbus. Andre Dager, one of the three sisters who r
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American Road Trip Talk (Podcast): Chris Wills: The Lincoln Year

Click here to listen... Click here to download…   It’s a brand new year for American Road Magazine and for American Road Trip Talk. Normally we use this podcast to introduce you to the people and places behind the stories in the magazine. This time around we are going to cast our gaze in another direction, forward into 2015... in Illinois, the home of Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States.   Along Route 66 in Springfield, Illinois you will find the Abraham Lincoln Pre
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American Road Trip Talk (Podcast)- Dee Helming: Fallen Shoe Tree

American Road Trip Talk (podcast)- Dee Helming: Fallen Shoe Tree Click here to listen... Click here to download...   The stretch of desert highway between Austin and Fallon, Nevada was home to one of the rarest trees in Americana: the "shoe tree." Actually there are a number of these huge trees draped with Doc Martins, tennies, work boots and all manner of used shoes all across the country. Rather than being treated as smelly, eyesores, they have become beloved roadside shoe shrines. T
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American Road Trip Talk (Podcast): Edna Beaudoin: The Paper House

Click here to listen... Click here to download …   The fall 2014 edition of our magazine had fun with the theme of Rock, Paper, Scissors and included stories about everything from a Wall of Scissors to a Waffle Rock and a Paper House. In this podcast we visit with Edna Beaudoin, who is the current caretaker of the Paper House, which is located in the scenic seaside town of Rockport, MA just north of Boston. What started out as a summer project in the 1920’s became a lifelong passion for an
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American Road Triptalk (Podcast)- Big Al Pelski: Toby's Clown School

American Road TripTalk (Podcast)- Big Al Pelski: Toby's Clown School Click here to listen... Click here to download …   Our Winter 2012 issue of American Road Magazine features a wonderful drive right down the middle of Florida on the Orange Blossom Trail. Just before you get to Lake Okeechobee you want to take time to visit the Toby the Clown Foundation in Lake Placid, the City of Murals. Big Al Pelski is the president of the Foundation and will be our guide during this podcast. If you
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American Road Trip Talk (Podcast): Mike Conlin: Finding The Jefferson Highway

Click here to listen... Click here to download …   2016 will mark the official 100th anniversary of our numbered highway system. Up to 1926 the process of naming, building and publicizing a stretch of roadway was very much a local affair. The results were often confusing if pleasantly familiar to the home team. The named trails served a valuable purpose in their day, but they began to pass into history when the American Association of State Highway Officials formally adopted the U.S. numb
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American Road Trip Talk (Podcast) - John & Ann Ridge: Yellowstone Trail

American Road Trip Talk (podcast) - John & Ann Ridge: Yellowstone Click here to download   During the last 5 years we have interviewed dozens of people behind the articles in our American Road Magazine but this time the subject has to do with one of our regular columns: On the Yellowstone Trail. John and Ann Ridge are a Wisconsin couple who have spent their retirement years uncovering and publicizing the history of the Yellowstone Trail.   In this interview John and Ann take us through
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American Road Trip Talk (Podcast): Margaret Dunning: 102 In The Fast Lane Part 2

Click here to listen... Click here to download Margaret Dunning may be 102 years old, but most of us might find it hard to keep up with her. In a recent issue of our magazine this remarkable woman was featured for her participation in a classic car event with her 1930 Packard 740 Roadster. In this second part of our interview, Margaret relates what it was like to travel on original American Biways, like the Lincoln Highway and Route 66 when there were more horses than horseless carriages. But
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American Road Trip Talk (Podcast): Olga Herbert: Postcard Museum

Click here to listen… Click here to download …   Summertime and the living is easy or so the so went in the famous operetta Porgy and Bess. We certainly hope the arrival of our summer edition of American Road Magazine is adding to your summertime relaxation.   In our Friends in the Fast Lane column made a stop at a unique exhibition at the Lincoln Highway Experience Museum in Latrobe, PA. There we met executive director, Olga Herbert, who described the Postcard Exhibit which launched
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American Road Trip Talk (Podcast): Marty Doepke: Pops Craft Soda Route 66

Click here to listen... Click here to download...   In the summer edition of American Road Magazine Erika Nelson, author of the Think Big column, found a big bottle of pop to quench her thirst: a 66 ‘ bottle to be exact outside of Pops Restaurant in Arcadia, OK. We talked extensively in another podcast with her about the enormous roadside attraction but the restaurant behind it looked just as interesting. Enter Marty Doepke, General Manager for Pops Restaurant. In this podcast Marty gives u
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American Road Trip Talk (Podcast):heidi Vincent: National Motor Club Tips

Click here to listen... Click here to download …   A lot of our listeners/readers are avid travelers and many use the itineraries posted on our American Road Magazine homepage. The holiday season for 2014 is just starting to get into high gear whether grandma lives in Tampa, Fl or Topiniabee, Michigan, Spokane, WA or Seabrook Island, SC. The folks at the National Motor Club have your best interests at heart and have a special winter driving checklist to offer you. In this podcast
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American Road Trip Talk (Podcast): Steve Sidlecki: Christmas Story House

Click here to listen... Click here to download   Nothing says Christmas like sparkling lights, mistletoe and ... leg lamps! That is, of course, if you are a fan of the 1983 holiday movie, A Christmas Story. The film chronicles a hilarious holiday season during the late 1950’s through the eyes of a child. In one classic scene the father proudly displays his sweepstakes prize, a lamp in the shape of a woman’s leg. The movie was fiction but not the house. The home where the movie was film
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American Road Triptalk (Podcast)- Andy Coulson: Fish Boil Fame

American Road Triptalk (Podcast)- Andy Coulson: Fish Boil Fame Click here to listen… Click here to download …   Warning dieters. The following podcast may be dangerous for your diet! The White Gull Inn is a beautiful little hotel/bed and breakfast in Fish Creek, Wisconsin on the Door Peninsula. The winter edition of American Road Magazine features a tour of this colorful arm of the Badger state that forms the southern boundary of Lake Michigan’s Green Bay. As you’ll hear, the White Gull I
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American Road Trip Talk (Podcast)– Carol Stuttle, Carol Burke Et Al: Endless Nights

American Road Trip Talk (Podcast)– Carol Stuttle, Carol Burke et al: Endless Nights (16 min) Click here to listen... Clickhere to download... The sky never looked brighter over central Illinois than when The Sky View Drive In Theatre in Litchfield lit up the night with Hollywood's stars. The Sky View is the last operating drive in on Historic Route 66 in the Lincoln State. Somehow it has survived until just recently charging just $2/person for admission to a double feature! How they
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American Road Trip Talk (Podcast): Linda Sweat: Odessa,tx Jack Rabbit Central Part 1

Click here to listen... Click here to download...   Our Spring 2014 issue of American Road Magazine featured an article entitled Hopping the Hippety Highway by Jillian Gurney. The author followed rabbit trails all over the country tracking down big bunnies. One of the stops was Odessa, Texas, home of the largest jackrabbit in the world. In this two-part interview with Linda Sweat of the Odessa Convention and Visitors Bureau we will find out about the history of the rascally native jackrabb
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American Road Trip Talk (Podcast): Robert Huttinger: Finding Covered Bridges

Click here to listen... Click here to download Believe it or not, covered bridges are as American as apple pie. According to Robert Huttinger, web designer and covered bridge aficionado, what we might consider quaint rural river crossings are very particular to North America. Robert is not only knowledgeable about these architectural wonders but he also wants to make sure that the rest of us can find them. That is why he developed a covered bridges app or program for the iPhone or iPad, a po
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American Road Triptalk (Podcast)-Tonia Buell, The Green Highway

American Road TripTalk (Podcast)-Tonia Buell The Green Highway Click here to listen... Clickhere to download...   Sticker shock at the pump in 2011 and the fact that this year's Car of the Year at the Detroit International Auto Show was the electric powered Chevrolet Volt seem to indicate that Americans are beginning to take electric cars seriously. Nissan and Ford have joined GM in producing electric vehicles but the biggest limitation seems to be: How far can you go on the batteries?
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American Road Trip Talk (Podcast): John Veach: Veach's Toy Story Part 2

Click here to listen... Click here to download …   In 2013 American Road Magazine featured a unique store in rural Indiana that has weathered the changes in American toy tastes for the past 75 years. Veach’s Toy Station has found a way to the heart of the child in all of us for three generation of the Veach family in Richmond, Indiana. In part 2 of the conversation that we had with John Veach, the current owner, he begins by reflecting on the reappearance of some of his favorite childhood
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American Road Trip Talk (Podcast): Marsha Gillies: The Rocky Mountain Mermaid Part 2

Click here to listen...   Click here to download…   In our Winter 2013 issue of American Road Magazine we wandered a bit north of our theme area of Washington State into the Canadian Rockies for the subject of our Memory Motel Column. Tucked in the foothills of the craggy grandeur of British Columbia near the town of Ainsworth Springs stands the Mermaid Lodge and Motel. Not quite the image that would seem to go with a town that grew up in the rough and tumble of the Canadian Gold Rush.  
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American Road Trip Talk (podcast)– Ann Wescott: Cave Caroling

American Road Trip Talk (podcast) - Ann Wescott: Cave Caroling Click here to listen... Click here to download     It is one of the most unique Christmas events on the American Road. Imagine the songs of the season echoing through Mother Nature's concert hall...underground. That is exactly what is going on from Dec. 3 through the 5th at The Cave of the Mounds National Natural Landmark in southwest Wisconsin. Ann Wescott from the Cave of the Mounds joins me to talk about the concert expe
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American Road Trip Talk (Podcast)– Donald Davidson: Kissing The Golden Brick Part 1

American Road Trip Talk (podcast)– Donald Davidson: Kissing the Golden Brick Part 1   Click here to listen… Click here to download…   In the spring 2012 edition of American Road Magazine our National Road column features a story about the Indianapolis Speedway. Other than the fact that both surfaces were navigated in cars, you might well ask, how are they related?   In Part I of our two part series on the Indianapolis Speedway entitled Kissing the Golden Brick, my guest is track historia
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American Road Trip Talk (Podcast): Erika Nelson: America's Largest Pop Bottle

Click here to listen.. Click here to download..   Erika Nelson is someone who is hard to catch up to because she is always on the road and always traveling. The big game she is hunting, literally Big Game, are the largest attractions along the American Road. Erika then turns them into the smallest replicas of the Largest Attractions on the American Road. And she has a travelling collection. She also contributes a regular column about her finds called Think Big. True to form the story tha
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American Road Trip Talk (Podcast)– Judy Busy: Finding Bigfoot...again

Click here to listen… Click here to download   The 2012 summer edition of American Road Magazine celebrates some of the best columns, trips, interviews and stunning photographs presented during its first decade. This podcast brings back a favorite conversation with ARM founders, Thomas and Becky Repp, when they interviewed Judy Bushy from Happy Camp, CA. The subject was a bashful fellow named Big Foot and California's Bigfoot Scenic Byway, a breathtaking Northern California stretch running
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American Road Trip Talk (Podcast): Steve Bloomer: Skyview Drive In, Belleville, Il

Click here to listen... Click here to download …     The Summer 2014 issue of American Road Magazine brought back one of our favorite family themes for the lazy, hazy days of summer, A Night at the Drive In Part 2. This issue features more than 30 outdoor movie theatres. According to Steve Bloomer, second-generation owner of the Skyview Drive In of Belleville, Illinois, things have never been better. We know you will enjoy Steve’s stories in this podcast as he describes a family business he
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American Road Trip Talk (Podcast): Greg Perszyk: Cardboard Boat Museum Part 1

Click here to listen… Click here to download …   Normally you wouldn’t associate anything make out of cardboard with the word “racing” but the paper flotillas of New Richmond, Ohio defy that notion. In our Fall 2014 issue of American Road Magazine a clever article entitled Rock, Paper, Scissor included a visit to the Cardboard Boat Museum in that little Ohio river town. Our guest is Ray Perszyk a colorful local who is the chairman of the Cardboard Race Committee. In this part of conversati
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