This week Road Trips with Tom heads to the funky old mining town of Tonopah, Nevada. Some people find Tonopah homely. Some find it fascinating. I find it both. Few places can more accurately be called “the middle of nowhere.” Tonopah isn’t the end of the world — but you can see it from there. It’s […]
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This week we head to the northeast corner of Tennessee and visit the cool small town of Jonesborough. Founded in 1779, this is Tennessee’s oldest town. At that time, its location was still very much a frontier. After all, Daniel Boone had opened up the area beyond the Appalachians for settlement just four years earlier. […]
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This week Road Trips with Tom visits a pair of L.A. museums that make excellent day trips and are good places to bring kids. If you live in Southern California, put these on your short-term bucket list. If you live elsewhere, I hope you won’t skip this post, but I’ll forgive you if you do. […]
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With help from our expert web designer, Christine Siebels, we’ve changed the slide show that appears on our landing page. The slides, all of which have a road theme, rotate every few seconds. Here are details: Icefields Parkway, Jasper National Park, Alberta, Canada. From October 2008. Park road, Arches National Park, Utah. From December 2014. Joshua Tree […]
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This week, after a side trip to New Jersey, Road Trips with Tom heads back to the Pacific Northwest. We’ll be visiting the west side of Washington’s Olympic National Park – specifically, the Hoh Rainforest and nearby Rialto Beach. Olympic is one of the nation’s most popular parks. More than 3.2 million people visited it […]
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This week, Road Trips with Tom heads to the southern tip of New Jersey and the Victorian seaside resort town of Cape May. I like Cape May. It’s my favorite town in New Jersey. People who live in the Northeast have a somewhat different relationship with the Atlantic coastline than we in California have with the Pacific coast. […]
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This week Road Trips with Tom takes you to the Pacific Northwest, specifically to the spectacular Columbia River Gorge. It has all the ingredients for a great trip – the lushest, greenest rainforest imaginable, the West’s greatest river, a wealth of wonderful waterfalls, and hikes ranging from easy walks to challenging treks. A secondary attraction […]
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