A Blog Along The Lincoln Highway

We don’t go far. Glenn has never been to San Francisco before, so we figure we have to go across the Golden Gate Bridge, and we can go that way to get out of town, not on the Lincoln Highway, but on a route that will get us to the interstate which we have to [...]

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It’s Thursday morning. We meet in the motel lobby for the free breakfast. Gently microwaved cinnamon rolls. Bacon and biscuits. Yogurt and oranges. There are lots of people staying in the Holiday Inn Express in Winnemucca, Nevada. We rolled in here last night late. There was a casino in the motel so we met there [...]

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It’s 6:45 am, our earliest breakfast of the trip. We’re in Evanston, Wyoming, at the Dunmar Inn Best Western (at Exit 3), a well built motel with several single-story white brick buildings that have park-outside-your-door convenience. We love that. This is the official motel for the 2008 Lincoln Highway Annual Conference, and we have to [...]

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Our next stop on the bus tour is at the town of Fort Bridger where an old set of tourist cabins are being preserved by the Wyoming Division of Parks and Historic Resources. The pre-motel cabins are in ruins right now but Wyoming preservationist Todd Thibodeau says they will be restored in the coming twleve [...]

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The third stop on the bus tour is at a barn on the eastern edge of Lyman, Wyoming. It’s not until we’re in town that I recognize this as the home of the Diamond Club, a little old bar where we stopped and talked to the owner/bartender last summer. We don’t have time to be [...]

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The bus tour continues on to Granger. This is the point in Wyoming where Route 30 turns north toward Portland, Oregon, and the old Lincoln Highway goes southwest toward Salt Lake City and eventually on to San Francisco. The buses stop at a recently restored stone structure in the middle of this small town. It’s [...]

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It’s Saturday. We take our time getting out of Evanston. Then we zoom eastbound down the interstate. The day is extraordinary, the clouds white and fat against the brilliant blue sky. The big Wyoming sights along the interstate are snow fences, cattle in the distance, an occasional refinery of some sort, snow-topped mountains to the [...]

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With a sparkling clean windshield, we motor along, heading northeastward, getting amazing vistas every ten miles or so. Soon we start to see evidence of civilization and we’re in Medicine Bow before we know it. As we approach the Virginian Hotel, we see some commotion on the right side of the street. It’s Buddy and [...]

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Sunday morning in Laramie. Big breakfast in the motel. I write a bit of this blog really fast (not the last entry but the one before that) and Glenn has the windshield-washing video ready. It’s become part of our morning ritual to put new stuff on the blog after breakfast. Now we’re back on I-80. [...]

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Still heading eastward, we easily remember our way back to the Bohemian Cafe on 13th Street in Omaha. It’s the last exit in Nebraska. “If you cross the Missouri, you’ve gone too far.” As we exit from I-80 at 13th Street, we pass the ballpark where the World Series of College Baseball is taking place. [...]

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