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Analog survives digital avalanche
A couple nights ago I roll into Astoria, Oregon just before 9 pm. This is pretty much where U.S. Route 101 ends before it crosses over the Columbia River and continues into Washington state. I’m tired but drive toward the center of town keeping an eye open for a place to crash. From the corner of my left eye I notice some bright neon that reads, “Video Horizons” and I perk right up. I steer … Read entire article »
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Duluth and the coincidence of the Edmond Fitzgerald
Before today, I thought Duluth was just the brand behind Men’s Buck Naked Performance Boxer Briefs. I was wrong. Among the many new things I’ve learned about the city of Duluth in the last 48 hours is that it’s positioned along the western edge of Lake Superior and that the Edmond Fitzgerald – that ill-fated iron ore freighter Gordon Lightfoot composed a Billboard Number 2 hit about in 1976 – sailed from this twin harbor … Read entire article »
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How water defined Guanajuato, Mexico and Venice, Italy
We arrive in Guanajuato, Mexico on Federal highway 110 late at night under a heavy rain. Despite our road fatigue and slight disorientation at the town’s driving challenges posed by a maze of curvy, ever winding streets that take a quick dive underground and then later resurface, we embrace our destination instantaneously. In fact, we think we’ve arrived in Europe. Make that Italy. Correction: Venice. Canals are to Venice as tunnels are to Guanajuato. Both municipalities … Read entire article »
Offbeat road & rail weekend on SoCal Amtrak awaits adventurous Las Vegans
Adventurous Las Vegans will want to take advantage of an offbeat, quick but memorable road & rail weekend aboard Amtrak California’s Coast Starlight and Pacific Surfliner passenger trains. You’ll have to leave the Las Vegas Valley early but I-15 will most likely be void of traffic as you zip through the Mojave Desert on an early Saturday morning toward Union Station in downtown Los Angeles. To be sure, this road & rail weekend is not necessarily … Read entire article »
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