Posts Tagged ‘California’
Our Favorite Pet-Friendly Roadside Motels
Once upon a time, city streets were lined with the bright and flashy neon of motel signs. The bigger and more elaborate the sign, the more likely the chance of catching the attention of the passing traveler. Sadly, many of these roadside motels and their neon signs have been left to deteriorate, met with the…
Read MoreOur Top 5 Neon Signs
#5: Village Inn Motel- Raton, NM Starting the list at #5 is the Village Inn Motel in Raton, NM. The motel and its vintage mid-century sign are one of many that can be found along South 2nd Street in Raton. Right off I-25, a trip into town provides a wealth of vintage signs and motels.…
Read MoreOur Top 5 National Parks
In light of the current craziness and the fact that so many of us are spending time at home, we have decided that we could all use a virtual getaway, so we’ve created some various Top 5 lists of places that we have visited. Whether you use our suggestions as ideas for future trips or…
Read MoreRide Like the Wind: On the California Zephyr to Denver
The third and final portion of our train trip was aboard the California Zephyr, traveling from the Bay Area to the Mile High City. In case you missed the earlier part of our train travels, you can catch up with our ride on the Southwest Chief in Hail to the Southwest Chief: All Aboard for…
Read MoreHail to the Southwest Chief: All Aboard for Los Angeles
As lovers of road travel on a quest for all things Americana, it should be no surprise that we are also big fans of trains. Of course, we wish that train travel today was as glamorous and plush as it once was but are excited that it is still possible to travel across the U.S.…
Read MoreEnd of the Trail: Route 66 in California
From border to border, California provides some of the biggest contrasts in geography on all of Route 66. Entering at the eastern border, drivers find themselves a mere speck in the massive expanse of the Mojave Desert where little remains of the towns, auto camps, and gas stations that were once available to Mother Road…
Read MoreGet Your Sniffs: Finley’s Travels on Route 66
For more than a decade, we’d dreamed of getting our kicks on Route 66. With a month set aside to follow our dreams and travel the route last fall, we couldn’t imagine taking the trip without our dog, Finley. Over the last two years, Finley has traveled more than 20,000 miles through 36 states with us,…
Read MoreFrom Badwater to Borax: Visiting Death Valley
After a brief, but neon-tastic stay in Las Vegas, we hit the road early, en route to Death Valley National Park. Having never been to Death Valley, we envisioned the area to look like the pictures most often associated with the park, Badwater Basin and the Racetrack Playa. To our surprise, Death Valley was so much more…
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