If you’re road tripping across South Dakota on Interstate 90, it’s hard to miss billboards advertising the Corn Palace in the town of Mitchell. Drawing over a half million visitors each year and perhaps best described as an agricultural showplace,…
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Get Your Kicks on Route 66 Since the invention of the automobile, American’s have been heeding the call of the open road—and for nearly 60s years they traveled en masse along U.S. Route 66 as it wound from Chicago to…
Connected to the Atlantic Ocean by a system of locks, canals, and channels along the Saint Lawrence Seaway, a popular Midwest road trip is the Great Lakes Circle Tour, a designated scenic road system connecting all of the Great Lakes…
With gas prices climbing to nearly $6/gallon here in Oregon and a looming head gasket repair bill on our aging Subaru, I joined ranks with a growing number of automobile enthusiasts and purchased a new (to us) electric vehicle. While…
Even before we moved to the Pacific Northwest, we started exploring the many hot springs across the region and Jackson WellSprings in Southern Oregon has been on my bucket list for some time. With warmish temperatures in mid-April, we piled…
“Founded in 1852, the Buena Vista Ferry is one of the oldest continuously operated ferries in Oregon. In fact, two of the three remaining Willamette River ferries in operation are the Buena Vista and Wheatland ferries in Marion County.” This…