Road Trips with Tom |
It could be argued that most people don’t enjoy driving. What may have been a diversion for our parents or grandparents – or, admit it, you, too – is now a noxious chore, much of the time. It’s gotten so bad that people have started longing for self-driving cars. You’re no longer one of those […]
This week, our cyber road trip takes us about two hours north of San Francisco to Fort Ross State Historic Park. A Russian colony in California? Da! Here, Tsarist Russia established a settlement that operated from 1812 to 1841. Several of the buildings have been restored or rebuilt, and you can enter them and try to […]
This week’s destination for Road Trips with Tom is Joshua Tree National Park, located 140 miles east of Los Angeles and 175 miles north of San Diego. As a lifelong Southern Californian, I’ve made at least a dozen visits there, beginning with Boy Scout camping expeditions many, many years ago. My most recent visit was […]
This week Road Trips with Tom casts away for the Maritime Museum of San Diego, where we’ll board some historic ships and maybe head out on the water in one of them. This is probably the best museum of its kind on the West Coast. As such, it’s one of San Diego’s top-tier attractions – […]
This week we’re taking you on a mile-by-mile trip on the Peter Norbeck Scenic Byway in South Dakota’s Black Hills. You’ll enjoy this trip. It’s relatively short and can easily be done in half a day – even with the optional side route. This is one of the most scenic routes in the Midwest and […]
This week Road Trips with Tom takes Exit 140 from Interstate 10 and visits the historic village of Mesilla, New Mexico. Mesilla isn’t just in New Mexico. In many ways, it is New Mexico. If you were to be magically transported to the village plaza, you’d know you were in New Mexico almost immediately. Where […]
Our road trip destination this week is Shenandoah National Park in northern Virginia. Shenandoah is all about the views for most people who visit this long, slender mountaintop park just 90 minutes from the Washington Beltway. For a few, it’s also a place for hiking, backpacking, bicycling, fishing or rock climbing. The park extends over […]