Before a big football game, it's common for the governors of the teams' respective states to make a friendly wager. It's not a serious thing, but serves more as a small publicity boost for companies and products in each state. For instance, if a team from Wisconsin is involved, it's certain the wager will involve … Continue reading A tasty wager
Day: January 12, 2007
More bad weather
I'm told that many Japanese tourists travel Route 66 in January. If so, they picked the wrong weekend for a road trip. According to the National Weather Service, a winter storm is causing problems all the way from central Illinois to northern New Mexico this weekend along or near the Mother Road. Nearly all of … Continue reading More bad weather
Riding with The King
This combination of a slide show and film footage from a group's motorcycle trip through the desert Southwest in April 2006 is better than most that I see on YouTube. I also approve including the hit remix of "A Little Less Conversation" by Elvis Presley.
The Lope makes a move
One of our favorite Internet road-trip sites, The Lope, has to a new URL that uses a Blogspot template but no longer is publishing to Blogspot. The Lope writes: I did place posts at the old blogspot URL to redirect people to the individual new URLs, so any URLs you posted for the specific posts … Continue reading The Lope makes a move