Lost highway adventures and walkabouts. We are kicking off a new year by sharing America's story and inspiring road trips by telling people where to go with virtual adventures. It's what we do at Jim Hinckley's America. Lost Highway Adventures Episode three of the...
National Old Trails Road
In Search of Lost Highways
Recently I set out in search of lost highways in Coyote Pass. In this picturesque wonderland chapters of the American story are etched in ruts, broken asphalt, and in trails. In Search of Lost Highways Trucks headed north to Las Vegas on U.S. 93 labor to make the...
Welcome to El Trovatore
Welcome To El Trovatore - Unincorporated. When I discovered that simple sign in the basement of the Mohave Museum of History & Arts in Kingman, Arizona, I had my second piece of hard evidence that the urban myth was a reality. But I lacked answers. And nearly five...
No Mere Highway
It is no mere highway. It hasn't been since the U.S. Highway 66 Association was established in the early spring of 1927. And now, in the era of renaissance, this storied old highway has transcended its original purpose. It has been been transformed into the modern...
Epic Road Trips
Telling the story of epic road trips. Sharing epic road trips. Making, and surviving, a few epic road trips. In a nut shell that sums up things rather nicely as road trips of an epic nature have been a big part of my life since at least 1959. And epic road trips have...
Road Trip
Road trip. Route 66, a highway, a television program, a road trip inspiring song and a destination. Memory making, epic adventures on the open road. It's as American as apple pie, hot dogs and a marketing campaign that encouraged people to see the U.S.A. in their...
Conrad Shenfield: An Entrepreneurial Tale
Subjugation of the Hualapai people followed a brief war in the late 1860s. And as a result, over the course of the next twenty years the northwest corner of the Arizona territory was inundated with a veritable flood of prospectors, ranchers, miners, investors, crooks,...