(Teapot Dome gas station, Zillah, Washington)] Road trip season is around the corner. And for inspiration we often turn to the John Margolies Roadside America Photograph Archive at the Library of Congress. Between 1969 and 2008, Margolies traveled around the country taking photos of roadside attractions and classic – and often offbeat – commercial structures around […]
Far off adventures don’t really need to be that far away from home. Our road trip team spent the afternoon in Ellensburg, WA, just about two hours from Stuck at The Airport headquarters in Seattle. And while we didn’t get to do everything on our list, we revisited two favorite places with fresh, post-pandemic (we […]
Here’s a crazy travel story for the New Year that’s not about flying, but about driving. On Tuesday night – New Year’s Eve – at least five cars and an eighteen-wheeler truck got trapped in a bizarre, giant pile-up of tumbleweeds on a rural, central Washington State highway. According to the Washington State Patrol, the […]
If you’re driving west and your route takes you through South Dakota on I-90, a stop at Wall Drug is a must. For the free ice water, of course: But also for the jackalope: And the 5-cent coffee:
(Teapot Dome gas station, Zillah, Washington)] Road trip season is around the corner. And for inspiration we often turn to the John Margolies Roadside America Photograph Archive at the Library of Congress. Between 1969 and 2008, Margolies traveled around the country taking photos of roadside attractions and classic – and often offbeat – commercial structures around […]
Far off adventures don’t really need to be that far away from home. Our road trip team spent the afternoon in Ellensburg, WA, just about two hours from Stuck at The Airport headquarters in Seattle. And while we didn’t get to do everything on our list, we revisited two favorite places with fresh, post-pandemic (we […]
Here’s a crazy travel story for the New Year that’s not about flying, but about driving. On Tuesday night – New Year’s Eve – at least five cars and an eighteen-wheeler truck got trapped in a bizarre, giant pile-up of tumbleweeds on a rural, central Washington State highway. According to the Washington State Patrol, the […]
If you’re driving west and your route takes you through South Dakota on I-90, a stop at Wall Drug is a must. For the free ice water, of course: But also for the jackalope: And the 5-cent coffee:
Here’s a sneak peek at the Route 66 slide show I had a little too much fun putting together for Bing travel. Seat belts on? The Gemini Giant is the official greeter at the Launching Pad Restaurant in Wilmington, about 60 miles southwest of Chicago. A former fiberglass “muffler man” statue designed to show off […]
(Courtesy Linda Clover) The World’s Largest Ball of Twine. (Cawker City, Kansas) The World’s Largest Catsup Bottle. (Collinsville, Illinois) And the World’s Largest Penny. (Woodruff, Wisconsin) Who can resist making a detour to see this stuff? Not me. And you shouldn’t either. Especially when 14 (possibly 15th by now…) of some of the biggest “can’t […]