Low water. High time.

Early spring. Jacks needs rain. Floated the upper Jacks last weekend. A few intrepid souls put in at the Prongs, the rest began from Buck Hollow, whose beach offered an easy launch thanks to low water. The journey was as … Read More

It goes through Saint Louie

How did Route 66 become the Mother Road? Steinbeck helped, of course, and Kerouac. So did a 1928 transcontinental footrace called the Bunion Derby, using Route 66 for much of the way. Route 66 became an art form, a gallery … Read More

Panhandlerama

Two icons along Route 66 point to a third. Sticking up like a wart on the flat windy Texas Panhandle, where dust is a commodity spread liberally along the armpit of Oklahoma, a leaning tower teeters, posing for shutterbugs intent … Read More

History Awakens

Every step into the State Historical Society of Missouri is an enriching experience. Yeah, I got the chhance to tell my story last year. But honestly, it’s more fun to learn. Last month was a photo essay recounting the Beatles’ … Read More

When a restaurant becomes more than a meal

Heading west on I-44, we hit a late-spring snowstorm that quickly turned the roads into a luge run. So we retreated to a town called Traveler’s Repose to let the snowstorm pass. Well, that was the name of the town … Read More

Runagroundabout

If your groundhog saw this, you’ll get six more weeks of stuck. A rare sighting of a runagroundabout somewhere in Harrison County.

Tragedy on the Big Island

We passed a rocky shore, the scene of two tragic events. On April Fools Day, 1946, a Tsunami smashed into this spot at Laupahoehoe, Hawai’i, killing 24 people, including nineteen schoolchildren. Eighty years earlier, a lifeboat crashed into this ragged … Read More

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