roadtrip

“The rest rooms are upstairs. Turn left at the Chihuly.” While those aren’t the directions I usually expect to hear in the Visitors Center of… Read More »Road trip: The Company Town and the Corn Fields

Cities change over time. Communities that were organized around production of steel or auto parts or glass are now organized around finance and healthcare, tourism… Read More »Roadtrip: A tale of two cities

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