Road Trips with Tom |
This week, Road Trips with Tom makes a two-hour run from our L.A. County home base to Old Town San Diego State Historic Park. This is a fun place to spend a day. It has lots of history, excellent shopping, entertainment and plenty of good restaurants . . . provided you like Mexican food. It’s […]
This week Road Trips with Tom becomes an underground publication as we take you to Kentucky’s Mammoth Cave National Park. Mammoth Cave is the world’s largest cave system, with 408 miles of mapped passageways. It’s more than twice as big as the second-largest cave. Mammoth Cave is still being explored, and more passages are being […]
If you look at a map of Oregon, you’ll find Astoria in the upper left-hand corner. You might logically assume it’s a beach town. After all, you can clearly see the Pacific Ocean on the horizon in the photo above. And you’d be wrong. Astoria is a river town, located just upstream from where the […]
In this week’s post, you’ll join Road Trips with Tom as we visit the historic village of Sharpsburg, Maryland. Sharpsburg is nestled in a valley between the Blue Ridge and the Potomac River, midway between Frederick and Hagerstown. The countryside here is beautiful and bucolic, as you can see in the accompanying photos. Some were […]
This week Road Trips with Tom visits the old silver mining town of Virginia City, Nevada. Historically authentic, cultured, outrageously commercial, gaudy, tacky, an Old West theme park – Virginia City is all of those things. It brings to mind the line from a Jackson Browne song: “I could be just around the corner from […]
This week Road Trips with Tom follows the route of the Oregon Trail as it crosses what is now Nebraska. Specifically, we’ll be traveling west from North Platte, Nebraska, to Fort Laramie, Wyoming — a distance of 230 miles. While that’s an easy day’s drive, you should plan two days, including stops along the way. […]
This week, Road Trips with Tom heads for the small colonial village of New Castle, Delaware. Most people visiting Delaware see it from Interstate 95, which connects Philadelphia with Baltimore. Or they arrive via the Delaware Memorial Bridge, which marks the southern end of the New Jersey Turnpike. Either way, it takes less than 30 […]