Roadtrip: Utica Starts With You
I tried to write this post from the last leg of my trip, between Utica, NY and Pittsfield, MA. I’ve been dictating posts as I… Read More »Roadtrip: Utica Starts With You
I tried to write this post from the last leg of my trip, between Utica, NY and Pittsfield, MA. I’ve been dictating posts as I… Read More »Roadtrip: Utica Starts With You
In 1999, a book called The Places Rated Almanac offered a ranking of American cities in terms of their desirability as places to live. There… Read More »Road trip: Peoria to Kankakee
Heading into Decatur on Illinois Route 48, you quickly begin to sense a pattern. You pass a field of corn followed by a field of… Read More »Roadtrip: Decatur, from corn to soy to cricket city?
The first thing I do when I come to an unfamiliar city is look for where I want to eat. This is in part because… Read More »Roadtrip: In search of the “statistically improbable restaurant”
Sunday morning in Youngstown Ohio, I almost put my road trip to an abrupt halt. I had just visited a surplus store near downtown which… Read More »Roadtrip: Side quest in Northern Ohio
Every place is a palimpsest with layer upon layer of history written atop one another. Every so often you have the opportunity to scratch below… Read More »Roadtrip: Buried, with dignity, in Elmira