On the long stretch of Highway 8 from Tucson to San Diego, there isn’t much for long stretches. Consulting an atlas, there’s not many landmarks on that road.  Driving this...

I have been a women’s sports fan for my entire lifetime, and love seeing women's sports 'live' when I can. The NWSL (National Women’s Soccer League)— the U.S.-based league for...

Upstate New York in the fall is a splendid thing.  When you really start down winding roads between small communities, there are apple orchards and farmstands galore— which usually bear...

There are some blog posts that will never be adequate to capture certain experiences. This is one of those posts. Dia Beacon is a very peculiar and specific art...

The Pacific Northwest is full of little islands and 'hanging chad' peninsulas— and adorable historic towns that are so quaint, they’d make a great setting for a Hallmark Movie.  Port...

One of the things I love about traveling in the van is seeing where our resources come from.  Be it the vast cornfields of Nebraska, the nut trees in New...

Marfa is one of the only places in America in which there is still an unsolved mystery-- a natural phenomenon that has been occurring for 100 years that nobody...

I'm guessing you have never heard of Matagorda, Texas? Neither had I. At population of a mere 313 by the last Census, I know this hidden gem would have...

What is Arcosanti? It's an experimental architectural community sandwiched between Phoenix and Sedona, found down a long, uneven dirt road on top of a wide mesa. I'd never heard...

We came to Taos to pet-sit, and thus spent most of our time with the animals we were caring for-- so we didn't get to see much of Taos--...

We ran into lots of cool people around Arizona that recommended we visit the town of Bisbee, (I had even heard a tip from some friends in the Northwest...

"The Loneliest Road in America" is Route 50, according to both local lore and Life Magazine. And it's not an over-exaggeration-- one might only see a few drivers while...

Winnemucca, Nevada-- a city that is famous for something that never happened. Well, it's not that it didn't happen, it's just that the myth doesn't exactly match the reality....