Posted in News Around the Nation, Outdoorsiness, Super-personality Faces on Mar 3rd, 2010
Pat Moon has a perfect beard for growing icicles. It starts at his ears and works its way down round the bottom of his chin, not spending any time on the front of his face. It’ll probably spend a good amount of time hiding inside layers of high-tech fabrics during Moon’s rookie run of the [...]
Posted in Kitsch Factor, Three-fer Friday, Uncategorized on Dec 11th, 2009
We’re none of us immune to the pull of the gift shop. I’m a sucker for souvenirs, though I choose carefully. It’s a thin line between charming and cheesy. I don’t mind crossing it, but with care. So if you’re thinking about getting us a little something while you exit through the gift shop, today’s [...]
Posted in American Style, Listing America, State-by-State on Dec 2nd, 2009
Rumor has it you need to buy a few gifts. So, while my usual path around the handmade paradise of Etsy.com is, oh, random, I figured I should take a more organized trip to help you out of your what to buy for… jam. So, here, some good gift items from around these here United [...]
Posted in How-To: America 101, Road Trip Tales on Nov 4th, 2009
Nearly 4 million miles of roads. That’s what we’ve got here in the U.S. Those of you who have been reading Flyover America for a while (or, even, for just a post) probably realize that a number like 4 million presents a problem if you’re a Flyover America type in the midst of conjuring up [...]
Posted in Listing America, State-by-State, Three-fer Friday on Oct 2nd, 2009
There’s a lot of go-see-do to travel. But, every now and again, weather puts the kibosh on out and about plans. (Phew.) Here, some rooms we’re happy to get stranded in.
Today’s Three-fer Friday guest writer is Hilary Nangle. When it comes to the go-see-do (and get stranded) of Maine, she’s our must-read writer of [...]
Posted in Flashbulb Memories, Outdoorsiness on Sep 28th, 2009
It has finally arrived. Yesterday, the first episode of The National Parks: America’s Best Idea provided the best excuse in recent memory to avoid all to-dos, to step away from the musts, to ignore text messages and e-mails.
The show began with a quote from John Muir: “Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places [...]
Posted in State-by-State, Tasting America, Three-fer Friday on Sep 18th, 2009
Some people pick one and stick with it through a trip (or a lifetime). Some beeline for the trendiest/newest/hippest this or that. Other folks play fast and loose, stumbling into every semi-interesting place they happen upon. Whatever. There’s no one right way to choose a bar.
As of this Friday Three-fer, a new Flyover America tradition [...]
Posted in Flashbulb Memories, Seeing America, State-by-State on Aug 7th, 2009
With cameras on cell phones, cameras in lipstick containers and cameras on the back of Toyota Priuses, it’s practically un-American in this day and age to travel without the means to photograph. In the spirit of capturing images from the road, we thought we’d each share some of our favorite travel photos and the stories [...]
Posted in Listing America, State-by-State on Aug 6th, 2009
Since writing about author Gretchen Rubin and her upcoming book The Happiness Project, I’ve been a now-and-again reader of her blog. A read of it today turned up a post about keeping a non-journal of one liners about happy times. Rubin writes: “Studies show that recalling happy times helps boost happiness in the present.” OK, [...]
Posted in Outdoorsiness, Uncategorized on Jul 31st, 2009
Pretty soon everyone is going to be talking about our national parks; Ken Burns’ latest project is a six-parter called The National Parks: America’s Best Idea and will debut on PBS on September 27.
We’ll be watching, for sure, but in the meantime we decided to get a jump on the chatter with our own national [...]
