Travel Tips

Welcome To My Neighborhood

by jimhinckleysamerica | April 13, 2021 | Adventure, community development, ghost town, Kingman Arizona, Lifestyle, Miscellaneous, ROUTE 66, Route 66 authors, ROUTE 66 EVENTS, Travel, Travel Tips | 0 Comments

It was mid summer 1966 when we followed the flow of traffic on Route 66 into Kingman, Arizona. Even though I was just a kid, I was no stranger to travel. My folks liked to tease that my toilet training had taken place along the highway and in service station rest...

Seamless

by jimhinckleysamerica | April 5, 2021 | Adventure, automotive history, Lifestyle, Miscellaneous, ROUTE 66, Route 66 authors, Travel, Travel Tips | 0 Comments

A history teacher pushes the student to memorize facts and dates. In the process they often instill a life long perception that history is as dead and boring as an insurance seminar about actuary tables. A historian provides relevance. They illustrate how the events...

Inspiration, Road Trips & Interesting Discoveries

by jimhinckleysamerica | March 13, 2021 | Adventure, automotive history, community development, ghost town, Hollywood history, Kingman Arizona, Lifestyle, Miscellaneous, ROUTE 66, Route 66 authors, Travel, Travel Tips, Uncategorized | 2 Comments

On May 2, 1915, 26-year-old Effie Hotchkiss set off from her home in Brooklyn, New York, for the Panama Pacific Exposition in San Francisco, with her, quote, "rotund" 52-year-old mother, Avis, in the side car. For two women to drive a car on such an adventure would...

Bathtubs, Birdcages & Chevrolet

by jimhinckleysamerica | Feb 24

A key to success is an awareness of shortcomings. We all have an Achilles heel. For me there is a daily struggle with distractions. As an example, this afternoon while preparing for the next episode of Coffee With Jim, the live stream program on the Jim Hinckley’s America Facebook page, I was thumbing through a 1929 Rand McNally atlas. As this weeks program with be a virtual tour along U.S. 6, I was looking for information about the highways course in Pennsylvania.

Well, That Didn’t Work

by jimhinckleysamerica | Feb 15

I had prepared the script with rich detail about Ludlow, Daggett, Newberry Springs and other outposts of civilization along the Route 66 corridor in the Mojave Desert. For illustrations I had combed my archives and created a well designed presentation. There was a...

Dusty Trails And Lost Highways

by jimhinckleysamerica | Feb 8

Beale Springs in the foothills of the Cerbat Mountains in western Arizona is more than a desert oasis. It is at the crossroads of the past, present and even future. And it illustrates the fact that history is not as dead and boring as a four day insurance seminar,...

The Purple People Eater & The King of The Road

by jimhinckleysamerica | Jan 19

Erick, Oklahoma is on the fast track to becoming a ghost town. The Route 66 corridor signed as Roger Miller Boulevard is lined with long shuttered motels, empty storefronts and century old brick buildings that hint of better times. For fans of the double six Erick is...

Out With The Old, In With The New

by jimhinckleysamerica | Dec 16

Adios (and good riddance) 2020. Hello 2021. It has been, shall we say, an interesting year. It has also been a year of opportunity, of challenge, of loss, of frustration, and of concern for friends and family. It has been an historic year, a world altering year and a...

Almost There

by jimhinckleysamerica | Nov 27

I am not sure when the vision first manifested but for many, many years there would be glimpses of my senior years as an odd blending of Slim Pickens in the film The Getaway, Jack Elam, and Walter Brennen. On occasion a new dimension would be added such as the...

Now What?

by jimhinckleysamerica | Jul 4

I am confident that most of us are in the same boat. Every morning we put on a brave face and step out to meet a new day that is unlike any day ever experienced before. We hide our frustrations, fears and concerns behind false bravado. We desperately cling to the...