Category Archives: On the Road Less Taken…

Wanderings and musings.

On the Road Again: In Search of the Lincoln Highway in Pennsylvania, part one

Posted on January 1, 2022 by admin

I can still feel it–the exhilaration of flying along the two-lane highway through the Alleghenies: the Lincoln Highway, once touted as America’s Main Street, in Pennsylvania!  This was the year, you see, that I was going to do the Lincoln … Continue reading →

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The Boys with the Shovels: The CCC at Pokagon State Park

Posted on September 22, 2015 by admin

For 62 years, veterans of the Civilian Conservation Corps, most of them from Company 556, have been coming to Indiana’s Pokagon State Park on the last Sunday in July, for the oldest continuous CCC reunion in the country. For the … Continue reading →

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My Mother Never Warned Me about the House on the Rock

Posted on January 31, 2015 by admin

For years I have loved south central Wisconsin, a beautiful land of lakes and rocks and rivers. Within a fifty-mile or so radius of Madison are many wonders, both natural and manmade, and I have wandered the old roads about … Continue reading →

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Ice Cream Sodas, a Carousel, and Two Rivers: My Logansport

Posted on August 17, 2014 by admin

Just up the old Michigan Road from Indianapolis, about 75 miles, is Logansport, which, given its key location at the confluence of two rivers (the Eel and the Wabash), existed even before this historic route was platted to it.  Logansport was a … Continue reading →

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The Road Less Taken: Indiana’s Upper Right Corner

Posted on September 23, 2013 by admin

I always love a chance to go to the northern part of our state where the glaciers left behind lots of lakes and rolling terrain. And Pokagon State Park, one of our earliest, dating to 1925, in Steuben County is … Continue reading →

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Following in My Foodstops: Pie in the Sky

Posted on July 5, 2013 by admin

Pie Day?  Who thought of this?  And who would be crazy enough to drive 170 miles to check it out?  Pie Day? Well, to answer the second question, I was.  Clay’s Family Restaurant, a stone’s throw from the Michigan state … Continue reading →

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The Road Less Taken: Up the Pendleton Pike

Posted on April 17, 2013 by admin

  Just a short trip from Indianapolis up Pendleton Pike is, well, the town of Pendleton, a pleasant place to play hooky for an afternoon.  I discovered it years ago, exploring the charms of a nineteenth century road, Pendleton Pike.  … Continue reading →

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The Road Less Taken: The Lincoln Highway in Eastern Ohio

Posted on October 8, 2012 by admin

I do so love old highways, especially those that have become byways, bereft of their numbers.  How much people miss by not taking just a bit more time along the way!   As mentioned in earlier postings, I grew up … Continue reading →

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The Road Less Taken: Underground Wonder

Posted on September 16, 2012 by admin

On my way to somewhere else in Ohio, there was something I wanted to see again, an old tourist attraction in which my daddy had carried me around when I was a toddler, so my mom always told me. I … Continue reading →

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In Search of the Lights

Posted on December 24, 2011 by admin

I’ve just returned from what has become in less than a decade one of our most cherished Christmas traditions, one that encompasses nostalgia, bittersweet memories, a road trip, and history.  It was a visit to Frankfort, population 16,500 or thereabouts, … Continue reading →

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