Issue #103 | August 2013

The Midwest

Photograph by Steve Wall

The Heartland via America’s Longest Road

In This Issue:

Rock n’ Roll Hall of Fame

An incredibly brief summary of the creation of Rock n’ Roll.

Cowboys, you just can’t trust them. Rodeo cowboys? Even worse.

Finding America’s favorite pastime…

A roadtrip through the northern midwest, from Munising, Michigan to Mille Lacs Lake in Minnesota.

Thorough explanation of how to turn hiking with kids into a success. Covers what to bring, and not bring, and hiking with kids by age.

W. Anderson Lee happens upon the smallest town in America, until he heads down the road and finds…

Warm summer days are quickly met by frigid nights as an adventurer braves the coastal nature of Newport, Oregon.

If the hills have eyes, it’s in the Idaho desert. Explore nuclear explosions, testing facilities and an atomic city that never quite came to be.

A would-be junkyard turned celestial marker.

Three toed horses, giant beavers, American camels and sabre-toothed cats…all preserved in stone here at Ashfall Fossil Beds.

Motel signs, can they be trusted?

A couple of travelers run into a senile old woman and her piece of American history.

How America’s greatest explorers symbolize the ideals this magazine represents.

The beginning of US Route 20 in Boston, Massachusetts.

An introduction to our latest issue, featuring great roadtrips and how to hike with kids.