American Road Trip Talk hosted by Foster Braun is a talk show that celebrates travel across the two-lane highways of North America. This unique broadcast is an extension of American Road Magazine. Join Foster Braun, Your host and our guide on the American Road Trip Talk Show. In May of 2011, a caravan of antique cars set out on a very special pilgrimage to celebrate the bicentennial birthday of one of America’s oldest roadways, the National Road. Within a generation of the Revolutionary War, Pre...
Sep 22, 2011•10 min
American Road Trip Talk hosted by Foster Braun is a talk show that celebrates travel across the two-lane highways of North America. This unique broadcast is an extension of American Road Magazine. Join Foster Braun, Your host and our guide on the American Road Trip Talk Show. In May of 2011, a caravan of antique cars set out on a very special pilgrimage to celebrate the bicentennial birthday of one of America’s oldest roadways, the National Road. Within a generation of the Revolutionary War, Pre...
Sep 20, 2011•11 min
American Road Trip Talk hosted by Foster Braun is a talk show that celebrates travel across the two-lane highways of North America. This unique broadcast is an extension of American Road Magazine. Join Foster Braun, Your host and our guide on the American Road Trip Talk Show. Who in their right mind would make a public restroom look like a giant toilet? Well, the city of Lucas, Kansas of course! Almost a year ago we told you about a folk art project called Bowl Plaza. The Grassroots Art Center d...
Sep 14, 2011•11 min
American Road Trip Talk hosted by Foster Braun is a talk show that celebrates travel across the two-lane highways of North America. This unique broadcast is an extension of American Road Magazine. Join Foster Braun, Your host and our guide on the American Road Trip Talk Show. When the Mother Road calls, few can resist her. Route 66 is a long way from Vince Cricchio’s New Jersey home, but when he got the call, he and his wife grabbed their video gear and spent 2010 travelling the heartland of Ame...
Sep 06, 2011•11 min
American Road Trip Talk hosted by Foster Braun is a talk show that celebrates travel across the two-lane highways of North America. This unique broadcast is an extension of American Road Magazine. Join Foster Braun, Your host and our guide on the American Road Trip Talk Show. Double your pleasure, double your fun…and right now some of you are singing the name of a favorite gum. Actually I am talking about one of the most unique drive in theatres in North America because it’s the only place in th...
Aug 31, 2011•11 min
American Road Trip Talk hosted by Foster Braun is a talk show that celebrates travel across the two-lane highways of North America. This unique broadcast is an extension of American Road Magazine. Join Foster Braun, Your host and our guide on the American Road Trip Talk Show. All that glittered became gold when it came from Los Angeles, California for most of the last Century. Hollywood became the hub of America’s movie, radio and TV industry turning Midwest girls, like Jean Harlow into The Blon...
Aug 23, 2011•14 min
American Road Trip Talk hosted by Foster Braun is a talk show that celebrates travel across the two-lane highways of North America. This unique broadcast is an extension of American Road Magazine. Join Foster Braun, Your host and our guide on the American Road Trip Talk Show. Some wags say the camel is a horse designed by a committee. The same might be said for the Jefferson Highway! This long forgotten but now much cherished classic American highway once stretched from the pines of Manitoba, Ca...
Aug 10, 2011•13 min
American Road Trip Talk hosted by Foster Braun is a talk show that celebrates travel across the two-lane highways of North America. This unique broadcast is an extension of American Road Magazine. Join Foster Braun, Your host and our guide on the American Road Trip Talk Show. Our summer 2011 issue of American Road Magazine featured a special section highlighting 26 classic Drive In’s across North America. In today’s episode we meet Greg Greenhill who represents the second generation to run the K...
Aug 02, 2011•14 min
American Road Trip Talk hosted by Foster Braun is a talk show that celebrates travel across the two-lane highways of North America. This unique broadcast is an extension of American Road Magazine. Join Foster Braun, Your host and our guide on the American Road Trip Talk Show. Like 21 rough-cut jewels the Apostle Islands adorn the shores of western Lake Superior in northern Wisconsin. These rugged islands aren’t just pretty baubles crowning the Badger State; they have had tremendous cultural and ...
Jul 26, 2011•12 min
American Road Trip Talk hosted by Foster Braun is a talk show that celebrates travel across the two-lane highways of North America. This unique broadcast is an extension of American Road Magazine. Join Foster Braun, Your host and our guide on the American Road Trip Talk Show. Our summer 2011 issue of American Road Magazine featured a special section highlighting 26 classic Drive In’s across North America. A common thread among the picture parks, like the Vali Hi Drive In Lake Elmo, Minnesota, is...
Jul 17, 2011•9 min
American Road Trip Talk hosted by Foster Braun is a talk show that celebrates travel across the two-lane highways of North America. This unique broadcast is an extension of American Road Magazine. Join Foster Braun, Your host and our guide on the American Road Trip Talk Show. After seeing his obituary in a newspaper, Mark Twain quipped, “News of my death has been greatly exaggerated.” Along these same lines, some of you may be more than a little put off by the title of this photo exhibit: Route ...
Jul 09, 2011•10 min
American Road Trip Talk hosted by Foster Braun is a talk show that celebrates travel across the two-lane highways of North America. This unique broadcast is an extension of American Road Magazine. Join Foster Braun, Your host and our guide on the American Road Trip Talk Show. The night sky never looked brighter over central Illinois than when The Sky View Drive In Theatre in Litchfield lit up the night with Hollywood’s stars. The Sky View is the last operating drive in on Historic Route 66 in th...
Jun 29, 2011•16 min
American Road Trip Talk hosted by Foster Braun is a talk show that celebrates travel across the two-lane highways of North America. This unique broadcast is an extension of American Road Magazine. Join Foster Braun, Your host and our guide on the American Road Trip Talk Show. For nearly a decade Dave Preston has entertained readers of the American Road Magazine with reviews of travel books and other memorabilia from the heritage roadways. Recently I had an opportunity to talk to him about his pa...
Jun 17, 2011•10 min
Claude Bell was a man who could dream bigger than most men can imagine. Two enormous concrete dinosaurs that command the Mohave desert town of Cabazon, California are silent witnesses to his hard work, persistence and vision. The desert dinos were featured in our spring 2011 American Road Magazine column The World’s Largest Things. In every issue, author and artist Erika Nelson salutes the king-sized roadside attractions that adorn the American Road. Here Erika tells the story of Claude Bell’s t...
May 29, 2011•9 min
The State of Washington is building a series of rapid recharging stations that will release the electric cars from the urban grid and let them breath the air of wide open spaces. These stations are part of the West Coast Green Highway that will one day stretch from Vancouver, Canada to Baja California. Tonia Buell, Project Developer and Communications Manager with the Washington State Dept. of Transportation, explains the scope of this great green highway and the schedule for implementation star...
May 24, 2011•13 min
American Road Trip Talk hosted by Foster Braun is a talk show that celebrates travel across the two-lane highways of North America. This unique broadcast is an extension of American Road Magazine. Join Foster Braun, Your host and our guide on the American Road Trip Talk Show. Rollin Southwell personifies the area that he calls the loneliest and oldest highway in America, US 50, the Lincoln Highway. His website www.lincolnhighway.com chronicles this dusty road that makes its way through central N...
May 16, 2011•14 min
American Road Trip Talk hosted by Foster Braun is a talk show that celebrates travel across the two-lane highways of North America. This unique broadcast is an extension of American Road Magazine. Join Foster Braun, Your host and our guide on the American Road Trip Talk Show. When filmmakers want to create a dinosaur domain for our imaginations, there is one favorite place on earth that they go to create their prehistoric settings: The Hawaiian island of Kauai. Specifically, they set up their ca...
May 09, 2011•12 min
This is a special American Road TripTalk due to both the subject and the guest. Weeki Wachee Springs, is a natural wonder in northwest Florida where “mermaids” have performed under water for millions of visitors since it opened shortly after WWII. Right now the very existence of this extraordinary attraction is in danger. Like every state in the union, Florida is trying to save money by cutting costs and state services. Weeki Wachee became a Florida state park in 2008 and has been extremely succ...
May 03, 2011•16 min
American Road Trip Talk hosted by Foster Braun is a talk show that celebrates travel across the two-lane highways of North America. This unique broadcast is an extension of American Road Magazine. Join Foster Braun, Your host and our guide on the American Road Trip Talk Show. The spring 2011 edition of the American Road Magazine is centered around dinosaurs and their many manifestations along the highways of North America. One of our articles presented The Extinction Theatre part of the Talisman...
Apr 26, 2011•14 min
American Road Trip Talk hosted by Foster Braun is a talk show that celebrates travel across the two-lane highways of North America. This unique broadcast is an extension of American Road Magazine. Join Foster Braun, Your host and our guide on the American Road Trip Talk Show. The stretch of desert highway between Austin and Fallon, Nevada was home to one of the rarest trees in Americana: the ”shoe tree.” Actually there are a number of these huge trees draped with Doc Martins, tennies, work boots...
Apr 16, 2011•12 min
American Road Trip Talk hosted by Foster Braun is a talk show that celebrates travel across the two-lane highways of North America. This unique broadcast is an extension of American Road Magazine. Join Foster Braun, Your host and our guide on the American Road Trip Talk Show. Like any dedicated artist Costas Schuler wants to make his mark on the world. The only difference is that Costas wants to make that mark with used up pens, thousands of them, in all sizes and colors and all of them glued to...
Apr 05, 2011•11 min
American Road Trip Talk hosted by Foster Braun is a talk show that celebrates travel across the two-lane highways of North America. This unique broadcast is an extension of American Road Magazine. Join Foster Braun, Your host and our guide on the American Road Trip Talk Show. Tom Holm is a man on a mission to change the way Americans travel our favorite roadways without becoming enslaved to foreign oil based fuels. In early 2011, Tom completed a 10,000-mile Eco Trek from coast to coast and back ...
Mar 29, 2011•14 min
American Road Trip Talk hosted by Foster Braun is a talk show that celebrates travel across the two-lane highways of North America. This unique broadcast is an extension of American Road Magazine. Join Foster Braun, Your host and our guide on the American Road Trip Talk Show. Starting in the 1920’s the art of neon lighting lit up American roadways and towns from coast to coast. In many ways it was a revolutionary as the digital artistry of today. Curiously, neon lighting made its way into the US...
Mar 21, 2011•16 min
American Road Trip Talk hosted by Foster Braun is a talk show that celebrates travel across the two-lane highways of North America. This unique broadcast is an extension of American Road Magazine. Join Foster Braun, Your host and our guide on the American Road Trip Talk Show. When the weather person wants you to know just how cold things can get in case you were starting to feel sorry for yourself, they would probably say, “But in Cut Bank, Montana it’s 40 degrees below zero.” In our Winter 2010...
Mar 16, 2011•12 min
American Road Trip Talk hosted by Foster Braun is a talk show that celebrates travel across the two-lane highways of North America. This unique broadcast is an extension of American Road Magazine. Join Foster Braun, Your host and our guide on the American Road Trip Talk Show. Route 66 has been dubbed the Mother Road and Bob Waldmire has to have been one of her favorite sons. A Tunnel Vision article in the Winter 2010 issue of American Road Magazine describes some of the unique vehicles that Wald...
Mar 09, 2011•13 min
American Road Trip Talk hosted by Foster Braun is a talk show that celebrates travel across the two-lane highways of North America. This unique broadcast is an extension of American Road Magazine. Join Foster Braun, Your host and our guide on the American Road Trip Talk Show. "You'll shoot your eye out!" was probably the most famous line in the movie, "The Christmas Story" but it was the infamous leg lamp that became the movie's most famous prop. As a matter of fact it was a homemade version of ...
Mar 01, 2011•14 min
American Road Trip Talk hosted by Foster Braun is a talk show that celebrates travel across the two-lane highways of North America. This unique broadcast is an extension of American Road Magazine. Join Foster Braun, Your host and our guide on the American Road Trip Talk Show. The city of Wheeling, W. Va is home to a treasure trove of childhood toys we all fondly remember collected in the Millers Kruger Street Toy and Train Museum. Alan Miller and his son assembled toys dating from the 1890's alo...
Feb 21, 2011•12 min
American Road Trip Talk hosted by Foster Braun is a talk show that celebrates travel across the two-lane highways of North America. This unique broadcast is an extension of American Road Magazine. Join Foster Braun, Your host and our guide on the American Road Trip Talk Show. In 2010 three graduate students from California State University East Bay campus created “The Mother Road Multimedia Experience”. The project was described in the Tunnel Vision column of the Winter 2010 edition of The Ameri...
Feb 11, 2011•13 min
American Road Trip Talk hosted by Foster Braun is a talk show that celebrates travel across the two-lane highways of North America. This unique broadcast is an extension of American Road Magazine. Join Foster Braun, Your host and our guide on the American Road Trip Talk Show. Fans of Abraham Lincoln have a very special weekend to look forward to Feb. 12-13, 2011 in Vandalia, Illinois. It was there that Honest Abe served as a young politician and it became his launching pad into history. So it is...
Jan 31, 2011•11 min
American Road Trip Talk hosted by Foster Braun is a talk show that celebrates travel across the two-lane highways of North America. This unique broadcast is an extension of American Road Magazine. Join Foster Braun, Your host and our guide on the American Road Trip Talk Show. Over 50 years ago a man named Wally Bronner, the son of German immigrants, bucked family tradition and opened a Christmas store that has become a holiday landmark throughout the Midwest. In this edition of the American Road...
Jan 22, 2011•13 min
