Comments on: #10. Chasing Tour Busses Down The Dixie Highway http://www.wqed.org/tv/sebak/blog/2009/06/10-chasing-tour-busses-down-the-dixie-highway/ WQED TV producer and PITTSBURGH Magazine back-page writer writes about his current work and assorted other things. Sat, 28 Jan 2012 17:41:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 By: rick http://www.wqed.org/tv/sebak/blog/2009/06/10-chasing-tour-busses-down-the-dixie-highway/comment-page-1/#comment-32 rick Mon, 06 Jul 2009 13:15:29 +0000 http://www.wqed.org/tv/sebak/blog/?p=395#comment-32 RUSSELL I never saw the Dixie guide, and I would love to have one. You can send it to me at WQED, 4802 Fifth Avenue, Pittsburgh PA 15213. Thanks. RUSSELL I never saw the Dixie guide, and I would love to have one. You can send it to me at WQED, 4802 Fifth Avenue, Pittsburgh PA 15213. Thanks.

]]> By: ypsi-slim http://www.wqed.org/tv/sebak/blog/2009/06/10-chasing-tour-busses-down-the-dixie-highway/comment-page-1/#comment-30 ypsi-slim Mon, 06 Jul 2009 04:53:21 +0000 http://www.wqed.org/tv/sebak/blog/?p=395#comment-30 Rick - did you ever get a copy of the Dixie Highway tour guide I prepared for the conference? If not - let me know and I will send you one. Regards, Russell, aka ypsi-slim Rick – did you ever get a copy of the Dixie Highway tour guide I prepared for the conference? If not – let me know and I will send you one.

Regards,
Russell, aka ypsi-slim

]]> By: jim http://www.wqed.org/tv/sebak/blog/2009/06/10-chasing-tour-busses-down-the-dixie-highway/comment-page-1/#comment-15 jim Thu, 25 Jun 2009 15:18:20 +0000 http://www.wqed.org/tv/sebak/blog/?p=395#comment-15 Rick, thanks for the hat tip! I was asked to ride along on the tour and share what I know about the Michigan Road and Dixie Highway, but there was no way for me to get away. I grew up in South Bend, and the LH was a routine part of my life for many years. The LH in South Bend actually follows the older Michigan Road from about downtown South Bend to about Rolling Prairie, by the way. I'm not sure why road history intrigues me, either, but it sure does. On my most recent road trip along old US 50 in Illinois, I found an old (probably 1920s) brick alignment of the road at about the spot where young Abraham Lincoln crossed into Illinois for the first time. Rapture! Click my name above to see the story on my blog. Rick, thanks for the hat tip! I was asked to ride along on the tour and share what I know about the Michigan Road and Dixie Highway, but there was no way for me to get away. I grew up in South Bend, and the LH was a routine part of my life for many years. The LH in South Bend actually follows the older Michigan Road from about downtown South Bend to about Rolling Prairie, by the way.

I’m not sure why road history intrigues me, either, but it sure does. On my most recent road trip along old US 50 in Illinois, I found an old (probably 1920s) brick alignment of the road at about the spot where young Abraham Lincoln crossed into Illinois for the first time. Rapture! Click my name above to see the story on my blog.

]]> By: rick http://www.wqed.org/tv/sebak/blog/2009/06/10-chasing-tour-busses-down-the-dixie-highway/comment-page-1/#comment-14 rick Thu, 25 Jun 2009 03:41:54 +0000 http://www.wqed.org/tv/sebak/blog/?p=395#comment-14 Don't be so coy, Jay. As if you wouldn't fit right in. Don’t be so coy, Jay. As if you wouldn’t fit right in.

]]> By: Jay Banta http://www.wqed.org/tv/sebak/blog/2009/06/10-chasing-tour-busses-down-the-dixie-highway/comment-page-1/#comment-13 Jay Banta Thu, 25 Jun 2009 00:55:59 +0000 http://www.wqed.org/tv/sebak/blog/?p=395#comment-13 God save us if we ever get you, Kevin, Brian, and Rus Rein all in the same car. You will need a trooper escort just to protect the public from the sudden stops and the hanging out the window for pics. What a crew! God save us if we ever get you, Kevin, Brian, and Rus Rein all in the same car. You will need a trooper escort just to protect the public from the sudden stops and the hanging out the window for pics. What a crew!

]]> By: rick http://www.wqed.org/tv/sebak/blog/2009/06/10-chasing-tour-busses-down-the-dixie-highway/comment-page-1/#comment-12 rick Wed, 24 Jun 2009 12:17:01 +0000 http://www.wqed.org/tv/sebak/blog/?p=395#comment-12 JIM Thanks for the info. I'm not sure what the tour guides were telling their bus passengers as I was following behind in my Honda. I suspect that some of that history was part of the tour. On my ride back north, my passenger, Jerry Peppers, mentioned the importance of the road linking the Ohio Valley to the rest of the state. Thanks for the link to your site too. It's handsome and fascinating. I'm not sure why I'm so intrigued by the history of roads. RICK JIM
Thanks for the info. I’m not sure what the tour guides were telling their bus passengers as I was following behind in my Honda. I suspect that some of that history was part of the tour. On my ride back north, my passenger, Jerry Peppers, mentioned the importance of the road linking the Ohio Valley to the rest of the state.
Thanks for the link to your site too. It’s handsome and fascinating. I’m not sure why I’m so intrigued by the history of roads.
RICK

]]> By: jim http://www.wqed.org/tv/sebak/blog/2009/06/10-chasing-tour-busses-down-the-dixie-highway/comment-page-1/#comment-11 jim Wed, 24 Jun 2009 07:21:30 +0000 http://www.wqed.org/tv/sebak/blog/?p=395#comment-11 I knew I should have gone on that bus trip. The DH in northern Indiana was largely part of a much older road, the Michigan Road, built in the 1830s to link the Ohio River to Lake Michigan. It allowed people to settle in northern Indiana, which at the time was dense forest and crammed with native Americans. You can follow the entire Michigan Road county-by-county across Indiana at http://jimgrey.net/Roads/MichiganRoad/index.htm. I knew I should have gone on that bus trip.

The DH in northern Indiana was largely part of a much older road, the Michigan Road, built in the 1830s to link the Ohio River to Lake Michigan. It allowed people to settle in northern Indiana, which at the time was dense forest and crammed with native Americans.

You can follow the entire Michigan Road county-by-county across Indiana at http://jimgrey.net/Roads/MichiganRoad/index.htm.

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