Some notes from the latest episode of the NBC reality series "The Great American Road Trip": The good. The Midpoint Cafe in Adrian, Texas -- along with its gift shop -- got quite a bit of air time during Monday's episode, even though the pie-eating contest in the restaurant was a bit repulsive. The good. … Continue reading Notes from the “Road Trip”
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Running the route with a twist
Each summer, a few athletes try to run old Route 66 to raise money for charity or to simply challenge themselves. Two stories came over Friday of runners trying to trudge down all 2,400 miles of the Mother Road. Both featured unusual twists. First, there's Internet mogul Tellman Knudson, who is training for a run … Continue reading Running the route with a twist
Greatest American Road Side Trip
The third episode of NBC's reality series "The Great American Road Trip" turned out to be slightly better than its predecessor -- namely because it didn't have a repeat of the dreadful talent show in Branson. However, the show found other ways to dismay and irritate. Namely ... --- For all the ballyhoo about it … Continue reading Greatest American Road Side Trip
Notes from the road
--- The bad news in Oklahoma is that the state's turnpike authority will raise toll-road prices an average of 16 percent. The good news is that this probably means more traffic on old Route 66 in the Sooner State. --- On Monday we briefly visited with Dawn Welch, owner of the Rock Cafe in Stroud, … Continue reading Notes from the road
A view from the passenger side
Los Angeles artist and photographer Jason Paul Bennett embarked on a Route 66 trip from Chicago to L.A. last year, and shot more than 5,400 images to document it. Bennett has a dedicated site, Passenger Side, to those photos. For a donation, yYou can download all 5,40o or so high-definition photos. You also can see … Continue reading A view from the passenger side
Notes from the road
A few things to move off my plate: --- One of the beneficiaries of federal stimulus package passed earlier this year is a Route 66 bicycle trail in Illinois. According to an Associated Press report, $25,000 in such funds will be used to build a four-way stop signal at an intersection for the Route 66 … Continue reading Notes from the road
Another critic of “Great American Road Trip”
I got this e-mail today from Kathleen Miller, a longtime member of the Illinois Route 66 Association and co-editor of the association's The 66 News magazine: Is the Great American Road Trip on Route 66 really that great? Over the past two weeks NBC broadcast a television show called “The Great American Road Trip.” They … Continue reading Another critic of “Great American Road Trip”
Great American Road Tripe
Following a premiere episode that showed potential, the second episode of NBC's "The Great American Road Trip" nosedived sharply in quality on Monday and probably will be this summer's television version of "Dead Man Walking" -- if it doesn't get canceled first. The first installment of the reality series that takes place on Route 66 … Continue reading Great American Road Tripe
Thumbing tumbleweed
Here’s another chapter of “Route 66: A Road Trip on the Bible.” This entry covers the second book of Kings. It's not very interesting, for reasons that will be apparent.
Good start for “Great American Road Trip”
I finally got to watch online the first episode of NBC's "The Great American Road Trip." This is the reality television series in which seven families go down Route 66 for a $100,000 grand prize. Because the families each had to pilot a large RV, it wasn't surprising that much of the drive from Chicago … Continue reading Good start for “Great American Road Trip”