Living in West Los Angeles, there is nothing like a day trip up the coast to Santa Barbara and beyond, especially when you feel the need to get out of Dodge, so to speak. The drive is easy because the distance to Santa Barbara is 1.5 hours and another 35 minutes to Highway 246, which takes you to Lompoc on the west…
Roadtrip! My rallying cry for the better part of half a century, it was never so welcome as this past Monday when we completed our vaccinations and the National Parks started opening their sites. The Coronavirus had kept us home for almost a year. The world was just shutting down as we headed home from Alaska’s dog sleds and Northern Lights eleven long…
Los Osos Valley Road, just before the off ramp to sleepy Morro Bay on the 101, drops you into Steinbeck country. Tidy rows of vegetables fan to the road from turn of the century farmhouses. The rich smell of fresh hay fills the air with the fecund aroma of freshly turned earth. This road delivers…
Custer State Park is home to the second-largest herd of bison on public land, just behind Yellowstone National Park. When Covid-19 decided to take a round-the-world journey of a lifetime, it left the rest of us grounded indefinitely. Even with fewer hurdles to barrier-free movement within the country and abroad as we move into summer 2021,…
Lavalle Toll House, Allegany County, Maryland ©Mountain Side of Maryland Granted, right now you may not be able to take that cross-country drive your family may have been planning. Or head for a scenic road that meanders through several states, stopping at attractions along the way. Even so, that doesn’t mean you need to stay…
View of Breckenridge from Keystone Resort’s Outback After relocating from suburban Chicago to the Denver metro area, my husband and I embraced our geographic location by taking frequent winter road trips into the nearby mountains. From our Front Range home, we could easily reach most of Colorado’s prime ski destinations after driving just a handful…
When my husband was able to retire early about 10 years ago, we moved to Las Vegas for several reasons, one of which was our ability to take road trips all over the southwest. One of our favorite places is Sedona, a short four-to-five-hour drive from Las Vegas. Cathedral Rock By Alex Bailey Straddling Oak…
Kick Field Goals and Sing Your College Fight Song on a Road Trip Pit Stop in Atlanta While the global pandemic may have slowed international travel, Americans willingness to jump in the car and take on the time-honored tradition of a road trip, is higher than ever before. In fact, researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago Translab conducted a survey regarding sentiments…
Many Twilight Zone episodes feature a road trip gone strange. A couple are driving along, make a turn and find themselves (as Rod Serling put it so magically) “traveling through another dimension -- a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind. A journey into a wondrous land whose boundaries are that of imagination. That's…
Interstate 77 (I-77) is one of the country’s north-south arteries that in “old normal times” provides an unbroken stretch of macadam for snowbirds heading south from Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Western New York. But for those whose idea of a good trip includes the journey, it’s a gateway to its own sensational attractions. From historic Marietta, Ohio, to island…
