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The storms in eastern Montana and Wyoming are almost never a unified force. Fierce downpours rage like a jigsaw puzzle, separated by jagged strips … Continue reading Rainbow Gateway
The storms in eastern Montana and Wyoming are almost never a unified force. Fierce downpours rage like a jigsaw puzzle, separated by jagged strips … Continue reading Rainbow Gateway
THERE’S SOMETHING FREEING about following a road into the mountains to see where it leads, and letting it turn from … Continue reading WAY off the Beaten Path [PHOTO]
TIRED OF MAKING New Year’s resolutions? Here are some travel resolutions that will be easy to keep. Continue reading New Year, Big Plans
Mountain highways, such as Highway 145 near Rico, Colorado, offer some of the most scenic and fun roadways to drive. Even when the weather begins to turn, the landscape offers something special to those travelers intrepid enough to press on, whether it’s snowfall in July or shafts of sunlight cutting through the clouds illuminating a far-off ridgeline. Photo by: Lorraine Paulhus
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As a teaser to the series of photo essays about driving the Maine coast that will be starting next week, here’s a fun shot from Acadia, one of America’s most traveled-to National Parks.
Continue reading “Bend in the Road – Photo of the Week July 8, 2011”
Almost anyone who reads Neil Gaiman’s 2001 novel American Gods dreams of hitting the road following the route Shadow takes through the Midwest.
Last week marked the ten-year anniversary of the book’s first publication. Here are six essential locations to seek out so you can live Shadow’s journey.
I have obscured the location of several of the places in this book: the town of Lakeside, for example, and the farm with the ash tree an hour south of Blacksburg. You may look for them if you wish. You might even find them.” —Neil Gaiman American Gods
1. House on the Rock, Spring Green, WI. The first major stop in American Gods—the stop that solidified to the reader that Shadow is caught between two worlds—is House on the Rock, outside of Spring Green. This dizzying roadside attraction makes it easy to believe there are multiple realities layered atop one another, with dioramas, music machines, and architecture jumbled and smashed together. Continue reading “American Gods Roadtrip”
Will Roegge takes the viewer for a ride across America with beautiful sunsets, cool time-lapses video and a soundtrack with a driving beat. Continue reading Atlanta to LA – Video
Beartooth Pass – Highway 312 Red Lodge to Cooke City, Montana
Highway 312 winds 60 miles from Red Lodge to Cooke City, Montana at the edge of Yellowstone National Park. Starting at 5,555 feet, the highway claws its way up 5,000 feet in less than 19 miles, switching-back on itself dozens of times before reaching Beartooth Pass, named after a spike of rock that looks like a massive canine tooth. Most of the drive is above treeline, with great views of towering granite peaks, hundreds of alpine lakes and snow all summer long. Keep an eye out for Grizzly Bears and Bighorn Sheep. Also, don’t forget to stop at “Top of the World” a tiny convenience store near the highpoint of the pass.
Mount Washington looms over coastal New England. At 6,288 feet, it is visible from the Atlantic Ocean, 80 miles away. The highest windspeed ever recorded was clocked here on April 12th, 1934 at 231 mph. The “home of the worst weather on Earth” is accessible by a winding toll-road, but (for once) I decide to leave the car behind and take the historic cog railway allowing me to sit back and enjoy the ride as it claws its way straight up the mountain.
Continue reading “Photo Essay: Mt. Washington’s Historic Cog Railway”