We haven’t been to Las Vegas in 13 years, and boy have some things changed. We’re staying at the beautiful Orleans Hotel, off-strip. It might be a little different on the strip, say, at Caesar’s, but I doubt it. What I mean is, there are kids everywhere. Everywhere. In the casino, running through the lobby, [...]

Well, fiends, we made it. Winding “from Chicago to LA, more than two thousand miles all the way” — it was a kick for sure. On the 4-hour drive through the High Desert from Needles to San Bernardino, we took the Old Road several times. [For those arriving late, Historic 66 mostly runs alongside the [...]

We had a fantastic day in Arizona yesterday. The drive through the mountains out of Flagstaff was gorgeous. Interestingly, the Old Road doesn’t offer as much in Arizona, compared to the top two states in our opinion so far (Illinois and Missouri). But we went off-road and saw lots of wonderful ruins. For the record, [...]

All right, now we’re into territory that neither the Thriller nor I have seen before. And man, what a first impression. While my poor family and fiends back in Ohio are suffering intolerable heat, I wore my sweater last evening while we were out and about in Gallup — it was 60 degrees outside. We [...]

Is it three days later and we’re still in Texas? Um, yep. Texas, she is a big state. After a long, long, long nine hours driving through nothing but this: we finally made it to Amarillo around dinnertime. Don’t get me wrong — we loved this gorgeous, wide-open expanse. Northwest Texas is much different from [...]