When I think of turtles, which is usually only when I see one flattened on the blacktop of a back road, I don’t usually think of them as food (although I do think of them as dinner plates). Wednesday night, though, fried turtle was one of the specials at Schultzie’s Supper Club in Dickeyville, Wisconsin, so,
I came up with the idea for this project almost two years ago. Since then, I have road tripped across some 34,000 miles of Great River Road blacktop; eaten at dives and fine dining establishments; slept in flea bag motels and in royal comfort; visited dozens of small town museums and libraries; danced the salsa
Justin was the 12th most common name for boys in the United States in 1980s, a fact I didn’t really need to look up after last weekend. In Chicago for a quick respite, I watched Justin Townes Earle perform at an open air festival in Oak Park – a spirited, rollicking performance with his buddy
In North Dakota, artist Gary Greff built monumental metal sculptures and placed them along a desolate county road that connects the village of Regent with the rest of the world via Interstate 94. He dubbed this 30 mile stretch of road The Enchanted Highway. Even if you don’t see the magic in his creations,
A few random thoughts from the road: A big boat Fun Fact #1: Last week I visited a marina that, like many marinas along the Mississippi, is home to a lot of boats that have more bedrooms than your average suburban house. What I didn’t know is that most of those big boats
It’s been a busy summer for natural disasters in the Upper Miss – flash floods, near record crests along the Miss herself from Davenport to Winfield, freak thunderstorms that darkened much of the Quad Cities and flung a trampoline into a helpless Prius, and cascading technology failures that stranded a certain travel writer in St.
