On the Road

This page is the home base for a proposed road trip to the Mensa World Gathering in the summer of 2021. It runs from the Hilton Americas hotel in Houston, Texas to Houston's Restaurant in Irvine, California. ...

The Bison Airlighter had me at hello. Never having used a fire-starting aid larger than a pack of matches, I was instantly awed by what greeted me when I opened the box. Like its namesake, this thing is large. But not so large that I couldn’t hold it in one hand and fill up its butane tank with the other. The Bison weighs about as much ...

There is always a plan of sorts to every road trip.

Dr. Horatio Nelson Jackson, on perhaps the first true American road trip, had a plan. On May 18, 1903, he accepted a $50 wager, at a gentlemen's club in San Francisco, that he could not drive across America by a fledgling invention – the automobile. Yet he did just that in 63 1/2 days. He had averaged 1.93 mph when he pulled into New York City on July 26, 1903 in a dusty Winton ...

So you've planned your trip and everything you're going to do once you reach your destination. That’s great! But what will you do while sitting in the car and traveling? How do you prevent your kids from asking the dreaded "are we there yet" question a million times?

Simple: Play Games.

I'm not talking about board games like Monopoly or anything that requires you to plan ahead and bring supplies with you. No, I’m talking about simple games ...

As a Route 66 author, many times I’ve been asked a simple question that comes in a few variations:

Of the many attractions on Route 66,

• What are your favorites? or,
• Which are the most offbeat or unusual? or,
• Which ones absolutely shouldn’t be missed?

Following is a short list, in no particular order:

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