Road Trips with Tom |
Petrified Forest National Park is the perfect road trip diversion. It’s not a trip destination by itself, but it’s a great stopover on the way to somewhere else. You’ll find it along Interstate 40 in northeastern Arizona between Flagstaff and Gallup, New Mexico. Whether you’re westbound or eastbound, you can easily visit the park thanks […]
This week Road Trips with Tom pays a visit to the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum in Simi Valley, California. As you’d expect, the museum covers our 40th President’s life in exhaustive detail. But it also offers a fascinating look at the Presidency itself. I enjoyed it immensely. This blog isn’t the place for political […]
This week Road Trips with Tom takes you to the pleasant central Virginia hamlet of Appomattox Court House, which played a Civil War role way out of proportion to its modest size. Every Civil War battlefield I’d ever visited had a bucolic appearance, with cannons and monuments positioned among the verdant fields and hills – […]
Everyone likes Sitka. As my Moon Alaska-Yukon Handbook says, “Sitka is everyone’s favorite southeast Alaska town.” People who come for the halibut and salmon fishing like it a lot. A radiology tech at my local hospital told me he’d gone to Sitka for the fishing every year for the past 10. My former Hyundai colleague […]
I’ve just returned from a 10-day trip to Juneau and Sitka, Alaska. This week’s post will feature Juneau. Sitka will be the featured destination on Sunday, May 29. So why, you might ask, would a road trips blog focus on two destinations you can’t drive to? Three reasons: First, you can take Old Betsy to these […]
This week we’ll visit 10 of the most attractive and picturesque villages in New England. As this is being posted, I’m in Alaska. It’s not technically a road trip, because I’ll be in Juneau and Sitka – two cities you can’t drive to. So this week’s post was prepared last week and pre-programmed to […]
This week the road trips blog visits a pair of old mining camps in southern Arizona that offer a wealth of attractions for visitors. Each is worth a half-day of your time. Tombstone and Bisbee are neighbors and are often visited on the same excursion. Both are former mining camps that have survived the loss […]