Road Trip Memories

12/10/2024

Nice haul of 🍏 🍎 at Hubers Orchard and Winery with the fam today!

28/09/2024

Greetings from the 3,199 mile long Grand Army of the Republic Highway, US Route 6 in Thomaston, Connecticut.

08/09/2024

Our first visit to Norma Jean's Ice Cream in Borden, Indiana, and it won’t be our last! Another great find since we moved to southern Indiana!

28/08/2024

A great little drive up into the hills of southern Indiana less than 10 minutes from the new homestead, overlooking Clark County. 10 minutes from our old house in Indy would’ve still been urban with traffic. Can’t say I miss that at all!

24/08/2024

Spent the afternoon exploring the Kentuckiana region and some of its more notable citizens.

23/08/2024

With our recent move to southern Indiana, we’re finding all sorts of new places to eat. Tonight’s feast courtesy Burger Girl Diner in Louisville. 🍔🍟🥤

19/06/2024

Want to help with Twin Arrows Restoration? Click the link!

So great to see improvements being made, graffiti being covered up. Don’t know any ultimate plans, but things are happening there - check out the video from Justin Scarred! It’s looking good so far.

Happy to do our part and make a donation to make progress!

Hi, my name is Brian and I am working with the Arizona Route 66… Brian Miller needs your support for Route 66 Restoration Efforts: Twin Arrows & History on 66

19/06/2024

Work has begun on cleaning up Twin Arrows! Check this out. Great news!

Join me for an exclusive, full tour of the abandoned Twin Arrows Trading Post, a once-bustling stop along Route 66 that's now teetering on the edge of collap...

11/06/2024

As much as we love our road trip memories, hence the name 😊, when it’s time to spend at home, we love that our home remodel of 2020 leans in on several favorites from our road trips.

One of our offices has our Route 66 memorabilia, which much of it is packed away now…see below…

Our bedroom has a Howard Johnson restaurant / motor lodge theme

🍽️Our kitchen is full on Coca-Cola diner, complete with walls, the color of Coca-Cola glass lol

🌊Beach / HoJo 1/2 bath

✨Midcentury starburst bathroom

🌴 Living Room is midcentury modern Tiki - so glad I saw a video from Justin Scarred about the Caliente Tropics in Palm Springs and other tiki related stuff. that inspired me to finish the incomplete living room, which had the furniture, but not an overall cohesive theme. I found the tiki art on Etsy, and started filling in with other tiki knickknacks.

On Thursday, we will be listing our house for sale as we prepare to move closer to the family! It’s very bittersweet as we love our house, but our new one will have basically similar decor with some minor tweaks to paint colors and such.

Listing our home in Speedway, Indiana 1/2 mile from the Indianapolis Motor Speedway! We’re close to the action & walking distance from the track, but located...

24/03/2024

We were so excited when we heard Wally's was going to build their third location in Central Indiana, just NW of Indianapolis. We see site work is starting there, construction entrance…

Now, we just realized we won’t be 20 minutes away by the time it’s open as we are moving a couple hours south….bummer

We saw a Kansas City location is also in the works, how about a location near Louisville? There are several Interchanges in southern Indiana ripe for the picking!

What say ye, Wally’s??

23/03/2024

Help save this unique stretch of old Route 66 in Miami, Oklahoma!

15/03/2024

Preserving Route 66 history is vital to understanding our past and how our country progressed through the invention of the automobile, suburban growth, realignment of highways to shift away from cities, the decline of auto travel and through travel options today, with the resurgence of interest in Route 66. Roads like the ribbon road give modern travelers a sense of travel from yesteryear. Thinking of the travelers who passed by the area…what it looked like back then…what has changed? All things we ponder on road trips.

But if roads like this disappear, all we are left with is the current roads with generic offerings of chain businesses.

Please take a moment to sign the petition and share!

29 signatures are needed, let’s get there by the end of the day?

03/02/2024

After we left the awesome Route 66 exhibit at the Illinois state Fairgrounds, we cruised south on the 1926-1930 alignment, following the brick alignment north of Auburn, then on to Girard, where our destination was Docs Just Off 66 for dessert. Our sundaes (turtle and grasshopper) were delicious!

03/02/2024

Day trip to a small stretch of Route 66 in Illinois. Starting in Springfield, we had Lunch first at the Cozy Dog then over to the fairgrounds to check out the amazing Route 66 exhibit - it was only just started the last time we were there and now it’s fabulous! There’s more to come in the next few months so be sure to check it out!

26/01/2024

Well this was an unexpected surprise! I made a ton of miscellaneous Howard Johnson graphics a few years ago when I redecorated our bedroom to a Howard Johnson theme. I meant to do these as a follow up but never got around to it… until today.

I was buying something unrelated at Walgreen’s and saw they had same day pickup on canvas prints, 60% off. So I found the old graphics and resized and slightly tweaked them. Uploaded and had them 3-1/2 hours later!

25/01/2024

Popcorn night! Got this great microwave bowl, popcorn, butter flavored olive oil and butter salt at Wally's in Illinois on our mini 66 day trip!

23/01/2024

Another image from Sunday’s day trip to Illinois Route 66 retracing our first date. The two times I let her wear my jacket. 😁 January 2001 ➡️ January 2024.

23/01/2024

Wow! This place is gorgeous! We love the mid century desert modern design and all of the colors.

21/01/2024

This was where we went to eat on our first date: a truck stop. We drove Route 66 from the Chicago suburbs to here in McLean that cold January day in 2001, much like today, when Jennifer was living in a hotel looking for a job for her anticipated move from Connecticut. We sat in one of these booths along the front window (maybe this one?) and shared our individual Route 66 experiences and why we were both in our 30’s and single. What a trip it’s been!

12/01/2024

Excellent news for road trip enthusiasts! After enjoying the Missouri location on Route 66, we were thrilled with Uranus #2 here in Indiana. We even figured out the location in Anderson at the former Good’s.

Now Indiana is fortunate to be home of the 3rd location as well!! Welcome!!

The Mayor of Uranus is excited to announce the location of our newest Fudge Factory and General Store!

30/11/2023

Not cool, Dairy Queen. Why force these locations to bury your heritage? If I see this signage, I know you’re Dairy Queen. Honestly the old signage is umpteen times better than your lazy “DQ” mantra.

The company that franchises Dairy Queens is forcing longtime stores with old signs to replace them with new.

11/11/2023

The only place where anyone should ever eat in Madison! Hinkle's Hamburgers

21/10/2023

We first met Shannon and crew of Chum Chariot last year at the Corn Festival in Sullivan. This is I think the 5th or 6th time they’ve fed us since then. This year’s drinks we had were the pumpkin pie and the Carmel apple pie. My Aloha Dog was outstanding and Jennifer got her go-to, the Mexican Street Corn Dog. There’s still time to hit them up Sunday in Bridgeton, Indiana at The 2023 Parke County Covered Bridge Festival. Give them a follow and hit them up at their next event!

21/10/2023

It’s autumn in Indiana. It’s our favorite season of the year…by far! We’re nestled in our seasonal campsite for one last weekend of the year here in the southeast corner of Parke County. This is also the last weekend of the famed Parke County Covered Bridge Festival, where hundreds of thousands travel from all over the Midwest to celebrate this county’s 31 covered bridges, with festivals all throughout the county. Our favorite is in Bridgeton, Indiana. If you’ve been here, what’s your favorite Parke County town’s festival? If you’ve never been, what are you waiting for!? It ends this Sunday. For more info, click here Parke County Indiana.