Travel Blog

Hello from Abilene, Kansas, on the prairies of America’s Heartland.  This is the small hamlet in which President Dwight David Eisenhower grew up, home of his presidential library and museum and the final resting place for him and his wife, Mamie.  It is the most delightful little town, looking much like it did 50 years [...]

There is a certain beauty to retracing your roots, which is exactly what I did this past week, with a ride down part of the Main Street of America, Route 66. In preparation for our journey along the old highway next October, staffer Ryan Quinn and I flew to Oklahoma City to backtrack to Chicago. [...]

As I return from another successful “scouting trip” across this great land, I come home with the knowledge that another of our popular Mystery Tours is going to be a big hit with our more adventurous travelers. For the past five days, two of us (Ryan Quinn, the man who is redesigning our web site [...]

Hello from The Land of Oz, also known as the state of Kansas. While my father lives in a Kansas City suburb on the Kansas side of the border, and our Route 66 tours cut through a tiny southeastern corner of the state; I confess my travels here have been limited. My loss has become [...]