Day: November 1, 2009

Binghamton New York to Boston

Hudson to Binghamton was a long stretch of empty highway, often squeezed down to one lane in each direction (though TARP was not officially credited) with some of the tiredest…

Indiana to Ohio

  The next day we saw the most we had seen of Chicago—in our rear view mirror. By mid-morning we had passed Garry, Indiana—the birthplace of Michael Jackson and by…

Omaha to Chicago

Iowa City, Iowa   Smiley Face Water Tower in Iowa     I had the camera ready when we stopped at the bookstore in perhaps the nicest find of a…

Red Cloud, NE to Omaha, NE

What came down had to go back up. We returned from Red Cloud to the Interstate via Hastings, passing a Pony Express Road on the way. We drove by Valentino’s…