Index

  • When America Became Great

    When the Make America Great Again movement first began, I paid little attention because did not view it in a historical context. Lately have begun to do so. What I came to realize is that most America First and MAGA supporters are far too young to know the time when America became really great the…

  • Why I Wander America

    When I retired, the last thing I wanted to do was go to an airport, let alone think about getting on an airplane. And for five years, I was successful. Instead, I have spent those years wandering the back roads and small towns of America. Many times I have been driving slowly down a two-lane…

  • First Motorized Crossing of the US in 1903

    2022-05-31 In 1903, ten years before the idea of the Lincoln Highway came to be, and travel was dominated by horse and buggy, George Adams Wyman accepted a challenge to ride a motorized bicycle across the continent in 40 days, the first attempt by a motorized vehicle. The California Motor Bicycle Company provided the bike…

  • Operation Vengeance – 1943

    There are only two significant attacks by enemies on American soil — Pearl Harbor and 9/11. All of us are aware of the efforts to “get bin Laden” and its ultimate success, but not many know about the retribution for Pearl Harbor.

  • Multipotentiality

    My dad was a multipotentialite. Don’t know what that is? Neither did I. But when I recently learned about multipotentiality I knew I found a term that described him. Multipotentiality has only become a thing in the past ten years. It describes people whose interests cannot be confined to a single activity and it accurately…

  • Stonehenge

    No, not that one. This Stonehenge is atop a bluff on the Washington side of the Columbia River near Maryville. It was built between 1918 and 1929 by pacifist-entrepreneur Sam Hill as the first monument to World War I soldiers. Mr. Hill mistakenly believed that the original Stonehenge was the site of human sacrifice, and…

  • US-30 Highway

    I started this latest (Summer, 2022) trip west by crossing from Iowa to Nebraska on US Highway 30. At that point it is also the Lincoln Highway route. I followed US-30 / Lincoln Highway to west of Laramie, Wyoming where I turned south to visit some of the National Parks in the Great Circle. When…