A Blog Along The Lincoln Highway

All of this is about a public TV project about one of America’s great roads, and we’re hoping you might enjoy reading about some of our behind-the-scenes work. I’m Rick Sebak, and I write most of the tales. Bob Lubomski is our cameraman. And Glenn Syska has been traveling with us recently. He made the video blog entries in 2008. Back in 2007, Jarrett Buba did all that. A RIDE ALONG THE LINCOLN HIGHWAY first aired on PBS on October 29, 2008 at 8 PM. Check with your local PBS station to find out about repeat broadcasts. Or go for the DVD at www.shopwqed.org.

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A good Tuesday.

June 18th, 2008 ·

We awake in Carson City, Nevada.  We’re taking the Pioneer Branch of the Lincoln Highway around the Southern end of Lake Tahoe, and it’s extraordinary.  It’s stunning.  It’s cool and goofy.

Bob got married in Stateline twenty years ago.  Now he says he wants to bring his wife back.  So many good memories.  Some gambling too.

Following some of the suggestions of the California Lincoln Highway enthusiasts (Paul, Kell and Grant) that we met by chance in the Chevron station in Eureka, Nevada, yesterday, we stop to see the concrete Lincoln Highway marker imbedded in the front of the Mexican restaurant called Tortilla Flat in Placerville, CA, and we gets some good shots as the day wanes from the Berkeley Pier where you once could catch a car ferry to get your vehicle across the Bay to San Francisco.

Then we take the Bay Bridge into San Francisco and catch the last few minutes of beautiful light at the Terminus.

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