Road Trips with Tom |
Laissez les bon temps rouler! Let the good times roll! Welcome to New Orleans, affectionately referred to by locals as N’awlins or The Big Easy. It’s one of a handful of U.S cities that are utterly distinctive. It has its own look and feel, attitude and vibe. People love to visit New Orleans. That’s why it’s annually […]
Welcome to Part Two of our Great Southwest road trip. If you live in California, Arizona or Nevada, you should start with Part One, posted a week before this one. This is a complete itinerary for a road trip vacation. The trip duration depends on how long you stay at the destinations you’ll be visiting. And […]
This week’s road trip takes us to Fort Scott National Historic Site in southeastern Kansas. Nowadays, this location is just about as central as you can get, but when Ft. Scott was established in 1842, it was on the nation’s western frontier. Before we delve into the fort’s histiry, please take a couple of […]
Welcome to Shiloh National Military Park, located in what’s now a peaceful rural pocket in south-central Tennessee. In April of 1862, it wasn’t so peaceful. This was the site of the bloodiest battle ever fought on U.S. soil. Today, you can tour the battlefield, view exhibits, visit the Shiloh National Cemetery and try to visualize […]
Welcome to Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument. It’s the dog days of late summer – not normally a season your road trip visions focus on the Arizona desert. But I hope you’ll humor me and read on. Here’s why: This week’s post will take you to the handsomest patch of desert you’ll ever see. In […]
Welcome to Rancho Los Cerritos. This week’s excursion hardly qualifies as a road trip for most of you reading this. After all, it’s just a few exits down your favorite freeway in Long Beach, and its appeal is mainly local. But the rancho is a nice place to spend an hour or two, and perhaps […]
You can run out of adjectives really fast when describing Montana’s Glacier National Park and the legendary Going-to-the-Sun road that crosses it. My first impression was that these are what mountains should look like — towering, jagged, foreboding. So spectacular is this park that it draws over 3.3 million annual visitors despite its out-of-the-way location up […]