A Blog Along The Lincoln Highway

It’s about 75 miles on that Loneliest Road, Route 50, from Ely to the town of Eureka, Nevada. There’s some awesome high desert beauty between the two towns, but not a whole lot more. The town was supposedly named for the victory cry of one of the earliest miners in the area. Eureka! In the [...]

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4:30 PM The road ahead demands our attention, but we love to dawdle, to check out one more thing, like the unusual Lincoln Highway marker on the corner by the courthouse. It says this is the General Motors Section of the Lincoln Highway. Hmm. As usual, we spend too much time in Eureka. 5:45 PM [...]

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Several miles later we stop in the wee town of Hazen for gas and a pee at the Hazen Market, an old canopy gas station. Jarrett’s middle name is “Hazen” so he’s happy to be stopping here in such a well named Nevada town, and this independent station’s a wonderful old place, undoubtedly another story [...]

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Enjoy some video as we go from great small towns to The Biggest Little City in the World.

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It’s already dark when we get to the outskirts of Reno and try to find the old Lincoln Highway route into town. Thanks to a brusk Asian cop in a gas station, we get onto Prater Way, turn left, and after a while, it becomes Fourth Street in Reno. For a while, we start to [...]

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Bob and I meet for breakfast at the casino’s coffee shop. Jarrett is editing the video clip we worked on last night, so he stays in his room and misses the granola-yogurt- fresh-fruit bar that he would truly appreciate. It was a Jarrett-friendly breakfast. We all want to be ready for this day. California, here [...]

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Often when tooling along what-you-might-call the Lincoln Highway today, you can choose to follow the exact oldest possible route, searching out little pieces of roadway that were once the highway, or you can just follow the old highway’s basic path, taking advantage of interstates and bypasses and high-speed travel. While descending from the Donner Pass, [...]

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It’s hot and nearly two-thirty in the afternoon when we climb back into the van at the California capitol building, and I say, “If we’re going to eat lunch, we have to do it now.” I noticed some signs for Old Sacramento, and I suggest that there may be some interesting eateries there. Bob says [...]

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See the video of the last leg of the journey to Lincoln Park.

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The fastest, most direct route from Sacramento to San Francisco would be along I-80 past Davis and Vacaville, through Vallejo and Berkeley to the Bay Bridge, a route that Butko identifies primarily as “3rd Generation” Lincoln Highway. We decide we will be historic for one last time and follow the path (if not the pavement) [...]

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