Heading west on I-44, we hit a late-spring snowstorm that quickly turned the roads into a luge run. So we retreated to a town called Traveler’s Repose to let the snowstorm pass. Well, that was the name of the town … Read More
Reading The Good Badass Samaritan
Notable podcaster Josh Colvin invited me to read a story for his American Miles: A Roadtrip Podcast. If you’re in a hurry, my story, The Good Badass Samaritan, begins at 45:40. But if you have time listen to the whole … Read More
America’s Next Big Water Park
The location of Missouri’s next proposed water park may surprise you. It’s not in a resort or even a town. But it’s the doorstep to more than five dozen Missouri communities, and three quarters of the state’s population. A few … Read More
My car won an Emmy. She let me ride along…
I’m John Robinson and this is my fellow traveler, Erifnus Caitnop. Together we have traveled more than 300,000 miles covering every mile of every road on the Missouri highway map. Along the way we’ve seen hidden gems that you won’t … Read More
Lunch at the Eagles Club
“Don’t be disappointed if we don’t see any eagles,” I warned my two young daughters as we drove round the last curve before we reached the river. A frigid January had tamed the top of the Mighty Mississippi. Only the … Read More
Tom ‘n’ Huck
Mark Twain endowed us with more than literary masterpieces. He gave us a lasting river lexicon. America’s exclusive fraternity of riverboat pilots adopted a term for disciples of Twain who act on their fantasies of wild river adventure: Tom’n’Hucks. Because … Read More
When you come to a fork
Hit the Jacks Fork at the Prongs, keep your eyes on the road, and eat dive bar burgers at Lucky Boys in KC. This guy hit the trifecta. Be like this guy. (Photo by Peter Price).
Ode to Road Hogs and Road Rage
I only did this once. On a lonely west Texas highway, where the flat boredom is punctuated by a battle between oil wells and windmills, we came upon a left lane hog in a nondescript sedan with heavily tinted windows. … Read More
