The Great American Road Trip

[Pilgrim]

The Art of Manliness Podcast #437 is about the great American road trip and may be of interest to OB members. It focuses on the paved roads, but there is a nice discussion about how the US coast-to-coast road system (not the Interstate System) came to be out of a series of rough trails.

https://www.artofmanliness.com/articles/podcast-437-dont-make-me-pull-over-a-history-of-the-road-trip/

 

[Five Points Overland]

Listening to it right now while planning our trip to Florida. If only I had enough time off of work I would skip out on I75 and slowly fall down through the states on the Old Dixie Highway.