Destination Route 66

Admittedly neither the Cubs Wrigley Field, the White Sox US Cellular Field or the Bears Soldier Field are on Route 66, although the latter ...

We here in Northern Illinois are in what is unofficially early summer or a close approximation of it. We're finally begining to see a l...

Train travel in the United States today is a far cry from what it once was. Only the long distance passenger trains have dining cars, and al...

Believe it or not I started this blog nearly three years ago in 2011. I was only able to write four posts that first year, and could just n...

It was early December of 2004 and I had just gotten my son to bed. I decided to sit down at my desk and read the December issue of Arizona ...

Well it looks like we are getting into that time of the holiday season when we have to waste a night at a desk or table scribbling out Chris...

It’s the day before Thanksgiving can you feel the excitement? The day before Thanksgiving has always been one of the busiest travel days of ...

For me there is no single holiday that is so quintessentially American and synonymous with travel as Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving or should I ...

There's this general consensus among Route 66 devotees that chain restaurants, motels, and stores where part of what killed Route 66. Th...

Ok, I know I disappeared for a week, but sometimes life has other plans for you then writing blogs. My past week has been like this, emotion...

The day is September 12, 2013 and since the wee small hours on the morning movie company trucks have been parked tightly front to back all t...

Ok, I know it's cliche but apparently at one time or another anyone writing about Route 66 has to mention the song. Now I love the song,...

Before Route 66, there was the Santa Fe Railway, and before the Santa Fe Railway was the National Old Trails Road.  You see as you study the...

The time is 8:06 AM on a balmy late August day in Chicago's West Loop. The sun is out and the sky's are blue, but the humid overnigh...

The 1970's where a hard time in Chicago. The railways that once populated the city, and made it the nations hub where vanishing and assu...

Researching a trip down Route 66 can lead you to a lot of websites, some helpful, some not. You will come across sites that chronicle trips,...

The Train of the Stars The Santa Fe Super Chief was the epitome of luxury travel in its heyday. It was surpassed only by the "Orient Ex...