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Our destination this week is the Lyon Air Museum in Santa Ana, California. For the many Road Trips with Tom guests who live in Orange County, this is one of the shortest road trips you’ll find. It’s located just across the tarmac from John Wayne Airport. I’d never heard of this museum until my friend […]
This week Road Trips with Tom visits Devils Tower National Monument in northeastern Wyoming. The first time I saw Devils Tower was in the 1977 film Close Encounters of the Third Kind. It was used as the site of the alien mother ship’s landing. My favorite memory from the movie was when Richard Dreyfuss made […]
This week Road Trips with Tom pays a visit to Columbia State Historic Park in central California’s Gold Rush country. Columbia was one of the dozens of mining camps that sprang to life in the early 1850s, following James Marshall’s discovery of gold along the American River farther north. Like several others, it rapidly mushroomed […]
This week Road Trips with Tom heads to South Dakota for a visit to Badlands National Park. There are lots of areas in the West characterized as badlands. These, however, are THE badlands – the baddest, best-known, most-visited, most spectacular badlands and the ones that belong on your road trip bucket list. If you want to […]
This week Road Trips with Tom visits Mission San Antonio de Padua – the most remote and little-visited of California’s 21 Spanish missions. Have you been there? I didn’t think so. Most people don’t even know about this gem of a mission. Mission San Antonio is in Monterey County, many miles from the nearest town. […]
Honk if you love cars! Raise your hand if you’ve had a lifelong affair with gasoline-powered, piston-driven vehicles and are aghast at the very thought of a self-driving car. If that’s you, you’ll want to feed your passion by joining Road Trips with Tom as we visit the National Automobile Museum in Reno, Nevada. Here, you’ll find […]
This is a follow-up to my September 7 essay entitled National Parks — are we loving them to death? In that post, I pointed out how overcrowding is making it increasingly difficult for national park visitors to get the experience they come for. I can’t solve the problem, but I CAN offer some strategies to help you […]