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Howdy, podnuh! Welcome to Tucson. This week, Road Trips with Tom invites you to mosey on over to your computer, sit for a spell, and read about the rip-roaringest Old West experience you can have. You’ll find it at Old Tucson Studios in Arizona — a great place for a winter or spring road trip. […]
Our destination this week is the colorful town of Port Townsend, Washington. You’ll find this city of 9,000 people at the northeastern corner of the Olympic Peninsula, fronting on the entrance to Puget Sound. Port Townsend has a lot going for it – so much, in fact, that it was named one of Forbes magazine’s […]
This week Road Trips with Tom heads for Cabrillo National Monument in San Diego. The monument commemorates the first European discovery of what is now California in 1542. You’ll find it on the tip of Point Loma, the narrow finger of land that separates San Diego Bay from the Pacific Ocean. Here, three ships under […]
This week we’re headed to southeast Virginia for a visit to Colonial Williamsburg – the nation’s largest, most significant living history museum. Williamsburg isn’t a side trip. It’s a primary road trip destination. If you’re traveling with school-age kids, you can combine it with a visit to Washington, D.C., for a nice learning experience. If […]
Welcome to the post featuring my favorite photos of 2016. Road Trips with Tom celebrates its second birthday this week. Our first post, which featured Fort Ross State Historic Park in northern California, appeared January 2, 2015. Since then, I’ve posted over 100 articles, spent several thousand dollars on travel and technical assistance, and earned […]
This week, we’re headed to the showpiece of California’s Spanish missions – Mission San Juan Capistrano. Capistrano is located just off Interstate 5 in south Orange County, about midway between Los Angeles and San Diego. It’s about an hour’s drive from either, provided you’re making the trip at 3 or 4 a.m. Otherwise, it’ll take […]
This week’s destination for Road Trips with Tom is Hoover Dam, located on the Arizona-Nevada border just southeast of Las Vegas. Here, a gigantic concrete barrier harnesses the Colorado River, generating electricity for three states and creating the largest man-made lake in the country. Las Vegas is one of America’s top tourist destinations, and Hoover Dam […]