A Train Ride Through Time
Here we are in 2018 — a date that would have sounded preposterous in 1880. And yet, we can still experience a bit of 1880 technology today in of all […]
A Ghost of Charles Dickens’ Past
The Golden Lamb in Lebanon, Ohio is Ohio’s oldest inn. Its charm is historic and its former clientele still present. Charles Dickens once stopped here; as did many other prominent […]
Ohio’s Chinese Lantern Festival
It just got cold outside. Really cold outside. The weathermen on TV used this as a news story; overeager to alert us about some serious winter weather coming. But it […]
Buffalo on Every Corner
Downtown Custer, South Dakota is little more than a strip of shops ranging from Western-style tourist shops and galleries, to Tarot card readers, souvenir hawkers, and thrift stores. Custer has […]
Stop at Wall Drug
Almost the minute we crossed the state line into South Dakota, we began to see old-fashioned billboards: 5 Cent Coffee Every Day at Wall Drug Free Ice Water! Wall Drug […]
Book Review: Footsteps
The New York Times: Footsteps As a travel blogger, I completely understand how a place can shape a person’s writing. It’s why I write about travel; because places move and […]
The Neon Boneyard
The Neon Boneyard, where old signs go to die. Ever since I visited the American Sign Museum in Cincinnati, I’ve been fascinated with old neon signs. So many of […]
Danke Schoen, Wayne Newton!
During a recent conference I attended in Las Vegas, I was very excited to be invited to an evening event at Casa de Shenandoah – the home & museum of […]
I Look Good in Coffee!
As it turns out, forming faces in foamy froth is flattering. And fun to watch! Michael Breach, the artist behind BaristArt, encourages people to watch him work. He downloads a […]
Vegas Strong
I was in Las Vegas a week after a gunman shot randomly into a crowd, disrupting and killing 59 lives and a world that tried to make sense of this […]
Browsing The Atlas 