Recent Destinations

Montréal, Québec

• La Banquise : la Poutine 24 sur 24
  
• Schwartz's Charcuterie Hebraïque : haut-lieu de la viande fumée
  
• Le Bilbouquet : glacier artisanal
  
• Fairmont / Saint-Viateur : bagels montréalais
  
• Ile des Soeurs : Mies van der Rohe station service Esso
• Centre de l'Architecture Canadien
• les Marchés Atwater et Jean-Talon
• Le Canal Lachine
  

Farm Progress Show 2008

• Boone IA
• Des Moines IA
• Living History Farms
• Iowa 80 Truck Stop

Historic Route 66

• Wilmington IL : The Launching Pad
• Gardner IL : wrong turn onto Campus Road; good thing I had a detailed Illinois map
  
• Odell IL : the restored Standard Oil station
• Cayuga IL : the Meramec Caverns barn; and "Cayuga's waters" as a thunderstorm cell douses everyone
• Pontiac IL : 1st fill-up and a look at the courthouse
  
• Springfield IL : Cozy Dog and the Lincoln Home National Historic Site
  
• St. Louis MO : Budweiser and Ted Drewes
  
• Meramec Caverns MO : the old barns are the most interesting thing, but I didn't actually visit the caves
  
• Rolla MO : the Boys From Brazil were obsessed with the name
  
• Springfield MO : Bass Pro Shops
  
• Joplin MO :
  
• Baxter Springs KS : somehow missed Riverton and the Rainbow Bridge
  
• Commerce OK : Mickey Mantle
  
• Miami OK : eight-foot wide "sidewalk highway" portion of Route 66
  
• Tulsa OK : Route 66 Harley-Davidson and The 5 & Diner
  
• Catoosa OK : the Blue Whale
  
• Oklahoma City OK : INTEGRIS Baptist Medical Center
  
• Amarillo TX : The Big Texan
  
• Adrian TX : Midpoint Café
  
• Tucumcari NM : um churrasco brasileiro
  
• Santa Fe NM : La Fiesta Lounge [La Fonda on the Plaza]; a Lisa Gilkyson CD
• The Turquoise Trail : the Road Not Taken by [most of ] the Boys From Brazil
  
• Albuquerque NM : Sandia Peak Tramway
  
• Gallup NM : The El Rancho Hotel & Motel National Historical Site —The El Rancho Restaurant
• Holbrook AZ : Mesa Italian Restaurant
  
• Flagstaff AZ : the Museum Café
  
• Williams AZ : Cruisers Cafe 66
  
• Hackberry AZ :
  
• Kingman AZ : Kingman Regional Medical Center
  
• Seligman AZ : R.I.P. Angel + Juan Delgadillo; no relation to Martin E.P. ~
  
• Oatman AZ :
  
• Barstow CA :
  
• Los Angeles CA :
  
• Santa Monica CA : still "wunnerful, wunnerful" after all these years
  

US 101 / California Highway 1

• Oxnard
• Buellton : "Pea Soup Andersen's " —back to the Fifties
  
• San Luis Obispo : student Pinot Noir and California Barbera
  
• Cambria
• San Simeon : where "Tanya" unironically narrates the video
  
• Big Sur
• Carmel

San Francisco Bay Area

• San Francisco : "Bay To Breakers"
  
• Berkeley
• Oakland
• San Rafael : Wright In Marin
  
• Napa Valley : Taylor's Automatic Refresher; COPIA: The American Center for Wine, Food and the Arts; the Silverado Trail, and Daryl Sattui's "Castello di Amorosa"