I'm here to rant that loop highways and bypasses are stupid ideas.

When Route 66 served as the main highway through Amarillo, the Triangle Motel on the east side was the first place west-bound travelers saw.

The northwestern portions of the Ozark Trail were subsumed by the federal highway project designated as US 66, aka the original Route 66.

Southern Maid Donuts, particularly the ones made in Shreveport, Louisiana, are served fresh and hot in the afternoon.

The New Year edition of the Wichita Daily Times from 1919 highlights all of the new interstate highways that cover Texas.

More than any other fort at or near the Red River Valley, Fort Richardson embodies American Indian reservation policy.

US 80, formerly known as the Dixie Overland Highway, merges with the Bankhead Highway and is the mother road of the Red River Valley.

Shreveport was prominently featured in Green Books

Several years ago, I drove the entire Belt Line Road that circles around Dallas County, and I did it again this past month.

The King of Trails took travelers from Kansas to the Gulf Coast of Texas.

In 1919, the U.S. government authorized a Military Motor Convoy to traverse the Bankhead Highway.

The former elementary school in Humprheys, Jackson County, OK is a bit on the sunny side. Even though Jackson County (Oklahoma) is home...

Detroit, Texas was home to Cactus Jack aka John Nance Garner, Vice President to Franklin Roosevelt form 1933 to 1941.

One of the oldest roads in the Red River Valley is the Southwest Trail in Arkansas.

Near Aurora (Wise County, Texas) is this old grocery store. I wonder if the store was witness to the UFO crash landing, which allegedly...

Most antebellum towns west of the Mississippi River did not survive the railroad boom and became ghosts.

Using a 1924 automobile route map certainly helps in this tribute to Red River Valley road trips.

Every time I give a presentation on ghost towns, invariably I’m asked this question: “What exactly is a Ghost Town? And why are you...

I turned yet another year older this month (just a decade past 29), and, like I do every birthday, I did some soul searching. I’m...

I consider myself very lucky because my son likes to take road trips with me. Sometimes, I feel as though I need to justify my trips, and...