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10 favorite New England villages
5 Tips for finding restrooms on a road trip
A 444-mile mosey
A cloud of dust on the Apache Trail
A dance with history at Colonial Williamsburg
A great Benefit Street in Rhode Island
A joyride down I-19 in Arizona
A quick message from Tom
A road trip to Old Montreal
A road trip up the Ohio River
A short drive to the Lyon Air Museum
A visit to Mystic Seaport
A visit to Santa Fe
A visit to The Big Easy
Ahoy! Set sail for San Diego’s Maritime Museum
All aboard at Steamtown NHS
America’s best ghost town — Bodie, CA
Antietam, Maryland — bloodiest Civil War battle
Appomattox, VA — where the Civil War ended
Arches National Park — Dazzle or Frazzle?
Arizona road trip vacation
Baseball Hall of Fame — a foul ball?
Battle of Shiloh — both sides lost
Beating the crowds at Glacier National Park
Best of the Black Hills — the Norbeck Scenic Byway
Biggest, richest mining town — Virginia City, Nevada
Bryce Canyon — “A hell of a place to lose a cow”
Bully for TR National Park in North Dakota!
Cabrillo NM — where California was discovered
California’s Russian outpost
Can we get there from here? An introduction to navigation
Canyonlands National Park — “A wilderness of rocks”
Capitol Reef — “The Sleeping Rainbow”
Celebrating the reopening of the Big Sur highway
Cherohala and more in western NC
Chiricahua NM — a little-known gem
Civil War Turning Point
Columbia Gorge-ous
Cool small town — Astoria, Oregon
Cool small town — Cape May, New Jersey
Cool small town — Deadwood, South Dakota
Cool small town — Goldfield, Nevada
Cool small town — Jerome, Arizona
Cool small town — Jonesborough, Tennessee
Cool small town — Madison, Indiana
Cool small town — New Castle, Delaware
Cool small town — Oatman, Arizona
Cool small town — Port Townsend, Washington
Cool small town — Sitka, Alaska
Cool small towns — Natchez, Mississippi
Cool Small Towns — Nevada City, California
Cool Small Towns — Newport, Oregon
Cool Small Towns — St. Michaels, Maryland
Cool Small Towns – Ferndale, CA
Covered Bridge Capital of the World
Covered bridges go upscale at Bennington, VT, art museum
Crater Lake — rhapsody in blue
Craters of the Moon — Idaho’s eerie corner
Death Valley — second post
Death Valley #1 — the “desert’s desert”
Death Valley’s Artist Drive reopens
Devils Tower — close encounters of the road trip kind
Dodging the crowds at Zion National Park
Drought puts a damper on wildflowers
Editor’s note on posting schedule
Elephant seals hit the beach at Piedras Blancas
Everglades National Park whispers to you
Fall foliage photo file #1
Fall foliage photo file 2
Fall foliage planning guide
Florida road trip report
Fort Ross — California’s Russian outpost
Fort Ross — California’s Russian outpost
Fort Tejon — an I-5 rest stop with history
Freeway road trip to Pio Pico’s adobe home
Ft. Scott, Kansas — the wild west of 1842
Gas price update — 8/10/15
Get soaked at Hot Springs National Park
Get your kicks on Route 66
Get Your Swamp Fix
Golden aspens glitter along the San Juan Skyway
Golden Spike NHS — end of the frontier
Great scenery at I-70 Exit 19
Hang around at Old Tucson Studios in Arizona
Harpers Ferry, WV — a history lesson you’ll love
Hoh! Hoh! Hoh! — Olympic National Park
Hoover Dam — it’s a dam site bigger!
Hyder — it’s bear-ly in Alaska
Icefields Parkway — #1 most scenic drive
If you love cars, you’ll love the National Automobile Museum
Introduction to Road Trip Logistics
Joshua Tree National Park — the crowded desert
Julian, CA, is simple as apple pie
Juneau, Alaska — split personality
Jurassic National Park
Lava Beds NM — barely in California
LAX planespotting is a real rush!
Lights, camera, action at Paramount Ranch
Lincoln, NM: Billy the Kid, the Duke and you
Little Bighorn — overrated
Lots of Texas history in Goliad
Mammoth Cave — wonders down under
Mt. Lassen: An active volcano?
Mt. Shasta — you can SEE it!
National Park Fees to Increase
National Park news — 2/29/16
National park news: July 25, 2015
National park survival guide
National park survival guide
National parks — are we loving them to death?
National parks — fewer visitors, higher entrance fees
National parks update
NE Iowa offers a great weekend road trip
Nebraska’s Carhenge — folk art masterpiece
New rotating slides on home page
New wildlife species in B.C.?
News update on wildflowers
News update: Trans Canada Hwy. and Yosemite
NEWS: Most visited national parks
Next exit, a national park
Old Mesilla, N.M. — Santa Fe, Jr.
Old Sacramento — exit I-5 for the 19th century
Old Town San Diego — where California began
Olvera St. — where Los Angeles was born
Organ Pipe Cactus NM — America’s best desert
Palo Duro Canyon — the bottom drops out!
Park Service fee increase may be dead!
Park Service gem at Fort Stanwix, NY
People still use road maps despite high-tech navigation tools
Petrified Forest — road trip diversion
Philadelphia — America’s home town
Planning a fall foliage road trip
Play Ball!
Rain is too little, too late for wildflowers
Rancho Los Cerritos — Long Beach has history!
Red Rock Canyon is a great Vegas bet
Redwood National Park, Part One
Redwood National Park, Part Two
Road less traveled — Fort Larned NHS, Kansas
Road trip report: Flyover states
Road trip to Badlands National Park
Road trip to the Gold Rush
Road trip winter vacation guide coming soon
Road tripper to the Gipper
Rotating photos to change
San Antonio — the mission nobody knows
Saratoga NHP — the turning point
Shenandoah National Park — close to D.C. but a world away
Solvang — culinary decadence
Special 2nd anniversary post — favorite photos of 2016
Steaming to Hannibal with Mark Twain
Strawbery Banke — a 320-year-old neighborhood
Sturgis rally may draw 1M
Take off for the San Diego Air and Space Museum
The 25 most scenic highways #1
The 25 Most Scenic Highways #2
The 25 most scenic highways #3
The 25 most scenic highways #4
The 25 Most Scenic Highways #5
The 25 Most Scenic Highways Vol. 1 (#1-5)
The Big Hole Valley – heart and soul of Big Sky Country
The Bowers Museum — “Orange County’s finest”
The citrus industry — California’s second Gold Rush
The great KC barbecue challenge
The Great Southwest road trip — Part One
The Great Southwest road trip — Part Two
The Great Southwest Road Trip — Part Two
The Loneliest Road and Loneliest National Park
The North Cascades Highway rocks!
The Oregon Trail in Nebraska
The Road Less Traveled — Bannack State Park, Montana
The Road Less Traveled — Blue Hill Peninsula, Maine
The Road Less Traveled — Carhenge, Nebraska
The Road Less Traveled — Dead Horse Point State Park, Utah
The Road Less Traveled — Little River Canyon National Preserve, Alabama
The Road Less Traveled — Lockhart, Texas
The road less traveled — Plains, Georgia
The Road Less Traveled — Silver Falls State Park, Oregon
The Road Less Traveled — Valley of Fire, Nevada
Tombstone and Bisbee, AZ — too tough to die
Tonopah, NV — so ugly, it’s charming
Travel news: Snow closes Sierra passes
Trip Report — Down South
Trip report — New Mexico/West Texas
Trip report — Palouse & Waterton
Trip Report — Palouse & Waterton
Two L.A. museums most people don’t know
Two SoCal railroad museums
Up the Upper Delaware River
Up, up and away to the March Field Air Museum
Update on gas prices and park fees
US 50 in Nevada — “Only the lonely”
Useful tools for road trip planning
Utah SR 128 – 44 miles of WOW!
Utah’s canyon country — a fantasy in stone
Valley Forge — crucible of the revolution
VLA — the Old West meets space age science
We and the swallows return to Capistrano
Welcome to Road Trips with Tom!
Welcome to The Big Easy
Where Lincoln hung his stovepipe hat
White Sands NM — the scenery changes daily
Yes, Dorothy, we ARE in Kansas